Camp 020

Camp 020 at Latchmere House in south London was a British interrogation centre for captured German agents during the Second World War. It was run by Lieutenant Colonel Robin "Tin Eye" Stephens. Although other wartime interrogation centres were alleged to have used torture to extract confessions, Robin Stephens denied claims that torture had been used at Camp 020. His instructions for interrogators at Camp 020 ordered: “Never strike a man. In the first place it is an act of cowardice. In the second place, it is not intelligent. A prisoner will lie to avoid further punishment and everything he says thereafter will be based on a false premise.” It is known that Stephens punished those who disobeyed this order, and in one case ejected a senior War Office interrogator from the camp.

In 2012 Ian Cobain in the book Cruel Britannia claimed that documents obtained at the National Archives proved that torture methods had been used at Camp 020 to extract information, and that 30 rooms there had been turned into cells with hidden microphones, further that there were mock executions and several inmates were treated brutally by the guards. Members of the British Union of Fascists had been held at Latchmere House during this period. They included the environmental pioneer Jorian Jenks.

There was a Reserve Camp, Camp 020R, at Huntercombe, which was used mainly for long term detention of prisoners.

Known wartime inmates included:

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