Their “campus” was a world away from any normal centre of academia. Yet the
Scottish prisoners of war battled valiantly to complete their university
degrees in a Second World War camp.

Now new light has been shed on their remarkable story. Documents relating to
the way in which exam papers were transported by the British Red Cross
across Europe from Aberdeen to Oflag VII B in Bavaria have been discovered
in a cupboard.

Minutes of the University of Aberdeen’s law faculty from 1943 record how the
academics would be satisfied about the efforts of Douglas Reith and Richard
Ellis as