concealed radios in all three camps amongst the internees allowed them to gather news from the bbc overseas service. other indications included the regular flights of bombers overflying the camps and occasional new arrivals who had seen cities “rather flattened” in wurzach in august 1944 one man put up a map and indicated the progress of allied armies with red wool, which was regularly inspected by the camp commander. in laufen in 1945, the german commander asked to be given the secret camp radio as the camp was about to be searched, sherwill handed it over, the camp was searched and the radio returned to him.