ABSTRACT
Wilton Park formally assumed its new role in January 1946. But its administration was still run by Leo St Clare Grondona, who had been asked by the PID to continue as Camp Commandant. Before the changeover, he sent the following circular to those of his former staff who were also staying on:
The raison d’être of the new baby is to re-educate groups of 300 Jerries in the way they should go. Courses will last varying periods, after which the victims will return to their Fatherland-all white or, should one say, all red, white and blue! Instruction will be imparted by a staff under an Oxford don… We’ve met only a couple of the long-haired section of the new establishment as yet, but they seem God-fearing folk and bid fair to being good mixers in the time-honoured fashion… Structurally, the guts will be torn out of the original offices-partitions will be ripped down to make large rooms on the north side of the grille; all barbed wire, compounds and iron bars are going west… The Jerries will provide their own police.
