After a brief period in Belgium, he was transferred to the London Cage.[18] Historian Helen Fry has written that he was considered at this time to be a "bombastic nasty man who sought to blame others for the crimes of the regime". During his interrogation at the London Cage Ramcke retracted claims that New Zealand soldiers, including Māori personnel, had committed atrocities during the fighting on Crete which were contained in the book of memoirs he had written while in American custody.[19] Ramcke was later transferred to a camp at Lüneburg and gave evidence in Student's war crimes trial.