HC Deb 26 November 1946 vol 430 c264W
126. Mr. Stokes

asked the Secretary of State for War how many German prisoners of war, captured by the British Army were left in Belgium and under whose charge when the British forces left.

Mr. Bellenger

Fifteen thousand prisoners of war captured by British troops were transferred by order of S.H.A.E.F. in the summer of 1945 to the Belgian authorities, under whose charge they remain. No other such prisoners remain in Belgium.