Former Nazi POW leaves €450k to ’kind’ Scottish village

A former German prisoner of war has left £384,000 (€454,000) to a small Scottish village for the kindness shown to him during his imprisonment.

A former German prisoner of war has left £384,000 (€454,000) to a small Scottish village for the kindness shown to him during his imprisonment.

Heinrich Steinmeyer, a former Waffen SS soldier during World War Two, was captured in France in 1944 when he was 19 and was held at the PoW camp at Cultybraggan near the village of Comrie, Perthshire.