POW / INTERNMENT CAMP TRENCH ART OF WW1

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this post deals with the,
pow camps/ internment camps in Holland in ww1
first of all I must thank Frank Johnson for the photos,
and Auratom Blok for the translation,
we are all familiar with pow camps in Germany,
but lets not forget the pow/internment camps ,
in Holland , we know about Groningen and the RND,
but there were a number of other internment camps
the words faintly visible on the box base are,
Vluchtoord, which means in the Dutch language POW camp in WW1.
the Second word could be Nunspeet( thanks Auratom)
now Nunspeet camp seems to have been built after the beginning of ww1
to cope with Belgian refugees and dangerous prisoners /340 men transferred to here that
were released from Belgian prisons when Antwerp was bombed. They were handed
over to the German occupying authorities at the start of 1915
These poor refugees were divided into three categories:

a. The dangerous or unwanted individuals
b. The less wanted individuals
c. The respectably needy individuals

Camp Nunspeet was designed for the first two categories (for 'the scum of the earth') and was able to accommodate 13,000 people
at the height of the internment at camp,
Nunspeet a maximum of 7,050 people lived there,
Each of these camps consisted of barracks with a living room and bedrooms with in addition to these the facilities that were present in any other village: church, post office, infirmary, shop, etc.
they remained there until 1919 when they were repatriated ,
to Belgium
in special trains paid for by the Dutch government
the box has been veneered with a swastika,
an emblem that the Nazis perverted for their own use in ww2,
BUT! lets not forget it is in fact a centuries old religious symbol The swastika (also known as the gammadion cross or cross cramponnée) is a symbol that generally takes the form of an equilateral cross, with its four legs bent at 90 degrees (as a Chinese character: 卐 or 卍).[1][2] It is considered to be a very sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism,
and was also seen on ww1 german air craft The Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte ("German Air Force"), known before October 1916 as Die Fliegertruppen des deutschen Kaiserreiches ("Imperial German Flying Corps"), or simply Die Fliegertruppe, was the air arm of the German Army (of which it remained an integral part) during World War I (1914–1918).
not only the german airforce but also the Americans as well considered it a lucky sign
Fritz Beckhardt flew a Siemens Schuckert fighter with a swastika on it. Pilots on both sides flew planes adorned with swastikas
An American flown WWI plane decorated with a swastika and Indian Chief head. The Chief being the symbol of the Espadrille. Lafayette
so the use of the swastika transcends generations before the Nazis hijacked it
but I bet that's what people remember it being used for .............