Following the Footsteps of Toruń's POWs: Disembarkation

The military ramp

Toruń's main railway station

Today TORUŃ DAILY PHOTO begins a new series of photographs called "Following the Footsteps of Toruń's POWs". Over the next week we will follow the exact same route that the Prisoners of War took when they arrived in Toruń during WWII. Many thanks to Piotr Olecki from Toruń's Historical War Museum (www.muzeumhw.pl), who acted as our guide.

Disembarkation:

Just a few hundred metres further up the track from Toruń's main railway station you can find this long cobbled ramp. This was used by the Nazis to unload their trains and was the arrival point for all the POWs. There were French, British, Polish and many other allied prisoners of war. The first to arrive were from the Allied Campaign in Norway but later over 4,500 prisoners arrived from Dunkirk. At its peak there were as many as 20,000 prisioners held in the stalag camps around Toruń.

Today you can still find bullets and ammunition along this ramp.