page_title: List of concentration and internment camps
section_title: Isle of Man
hierarchical_section_title: List of concentration and internment camps / Isle of Man
caption_attribution_description: English: View of a Pow Camp, Isle of Man, 1915-1919 image: a view looking down at the camp from a hillside, with a seated prisoner in the foreground. The camp stands in a valley and consists of rows of low huts, surrounded by a high wire fence. On the hillside in the foreground prisoners in brown clothing appear to be at work, tending the gardens.
context_page_description: This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country. In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it was occupied by a foreign power.
  Certain types of camps are excluded from this list, particularly refugee camps operated or endorsed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Additionally, prisoner-of-war camps that do not also intern non-combatants or civilians are treated under a separate category.
context_section_description: Although not technically part of the United Kingdom, during World War I the United Kingdom government interned male citizens of the Central Powers, principally Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turkey on the island. They were held mainly in internment camps at Knockaloe, close to Peel, and a smaller one near Douglas.
  During World War II the Isle of Man was used as the primary site for the internment of civilian enemy aliens, both male and female. The camps were predominantly in commandeered hotels and boarding houses in seaside towns on the island. Around the camps for males, barbed wire fences were erected and military guard was brought over from England. The low-risk internees were, however, allowed to work on farms on the island and to go on excursions such as for walks or to swim in the sea. The camps were in operation from 27 May 1940 to 5 September 1945.
  The largest recorded number of internees on the island was roughly 14,000, reached in August 1940. There were ten camps on the island: 
  Mooragh Camp, Ramsey
  Peveril Camp, Peel
  Onchan Camp, Onchan
  Rushen Camp, Port St Mary and Port Erin (for female and family internees only)
  Central Camp, Douglas
  Palace Camp, Douglas
  Metropole Camp, Douglas
  Hutchinson Camp, Douglas
  Granville Camp, Douglas
  Sefton Camp, Douglas
caption: View of P.O.W. Camp, Isle of Man. The Knockaloe internment camp near Peel on the Isle of Man, May 1918, by POW George Kenner.
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