Münster to Hull: the European Voluntary Worker route

Münster zonal transit camp → Hull

The barracks at Hoher Heckenweg in Münster reopened in April 1947 as the regional processing centre for Operation Westward Ho, and became the zonal transit camp that August; about 60,000 displaced persons of all nationalities passed through it on the way to Britain before the operation ended in June 1949. Recruits waited several days at Münster, went by train to Cuxhaven or the Hook of Holland, crossed overnight to Hull, Harwich or Tilbury, and were received at the Priory Road camp if they landed at Hull. Over a third of European Voluntary Worker arrivals landed at Hull. A Control Commission progress report of 6 April 1948 recorded 5,662 men and 1,837 women entrained for Münster from the American zone alone.