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Monday 15th March 2010 Wembley Way built by Germans
German POWs were responsible for the building of Wembley Way, this is
the shocking truth of one of England’s most iconic thoroughfares
according to investigations by the BBC. Over three years after the end
of World War Two German Prisoners of War were still held in camps
inside England. The combination of this free source of labour and the
great need to redevelop Britain’s shattered infrastructure proved
irresistible to the Ministry of Labour and the POWs were put to work
in a variety of ways.
One of the tasks completed by the squads of captured German soldiers
was the construction of the approach road to London’s new flagship
stadium at Wembley. Despite the efforts of these Germans, their nation
itself wasn’t invited to the Olympic Games held at the newly built
Wembley Stadium in 1948. London
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