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Hello everyone,
I wonder if someone can help me. My Grandfather was a POW in Stalag V1-B Neu Versen during WW2. He was taken there in September 1939. When he had been there for a while he was sent to work on the farm of a local German from what I can remember being told. The story we were told by my grandfather is that the German farmer helped escape. I wonder if anyone would know how this would have happened. Would my grandfather have been close enough to the Dutch border to just make a run for it so to speak or would there have been more planning out into it.  This would have probably have been a couple of years after he was captured and because of this I can't find any records of him coming into the UK. However, it said he was somewhere in Oxford before going to Wales. He said this too was some sort of camp where they helped him get healthy and taught him some English. I can't find any Naturalisation records for him. Any help with any of this would be appreciated. Thank you

Hello everyone
This is my first time posting here. I have been looking into my grandfather who came to the UK after World War 2 and at some point made his way to South Wales and stayed in Hostels before marrying my Nan. He was Polish and spent most of WW2 in a POW camp, Stalag V1-B Neu Versen. We believe for a while he went to a displaced person camp. My grandfather and dad were having a conversation about University once and my grandfather joked "I went to Oxford". There are so many camps for displaced people in Oxford and many of them seem to be for families. I am trying to find out if there were any for single men or would they have gone to the same camps as families. I think he as the only member of his family to come the the UK. I really would like to narrow down the camps where he mat have stayed so I can try and get his military records. I have tried to obtain them for Poland but have been told by someone there that I may have more luck in the UK, Thanks