_126 Barracks "Most POW camps held several thousand prisoners at any one time and overcrowding and a lack of personal space was a real problem.\r\n\r\nPrisoners were usually housed in one-storey wooden barracks which contained bunk beds that were two or three tiers high and usually made of wood, but not all barracks were the same. In Stalag Luft III a single barrack block was split into 12 smaller rooms each holding up to 15 men. The whole block could hold up to 180 men and there were up to 15 blocks in each of the four compounds in the camp. At Stalag XXI D, Sgt John Hillman who had been taken prisoner at St Valery recorded in his diary that the rooms held up to 30 men in two-tier metal bunk beds.\r\n\r\nPhoto \u2013 A crowded barrack room at Stalag Luft I where up to 22 men slept." eulac3d Image IMAGE "Most POW camps held several thousand prisoners at any one time and overcrowding and a lack of personal space was a real problem.\r\n\r\nPrisoners were usually housed in one-storey wooden barracks which contained bunk beds that were two or three tiers high and usually made of wood, but not all barracks were the same. In Stalag Luft III a single barrack block was split into 12 smaller rooms each holding up to 15 men. The whole block could hold up to 180 men and there were up to 15 blocks in each of the four compounds in the camp. At Stalag XXI D, Sgt John Hillman who had been taken prisoner at St Valery recorded in his diary that the rooms held up to 30 men in two-tier metal bunk beds.\r\n\r\nPhoto \u2013 A crowded barrack room at Stalag Luft I where up to 22 men slept."