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This (presumably) reads "Death to SS" in French. Again, I will stress that I do not know who wrote these or when; perhaps they were written by prisoners of war, later inhabitants of the property, or even explorers after it was abandoned in 1982 - I thought they were interesting and shot a few sections of wall.

The prison held POWs from both the Belgian and German army, and the camp itself was occupied by both, as well as the Americans at various times.

Many of the rooms with writing were pitch black, and I needed to light them with my flashlight.
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I WROTE THAT!!!!!!!
Henry Montisque
Wed 01-21-2009
It looks way too old. I doubt whoever wrote this is still alive and much less coming onto this site and saying they did.
Wormfood
Wed 01-21-2009
I guess one question is: how likely i it that a post-WWII explorer would think to write grafitti about the SS? Its just a little more specific than what I might expect to see in recent grafitti.

That, and if you look closely, part of the wall appears to have molded/decayed *over* the "R".
Alex J
Wed 01-21-2009
Cant say as I blame whoever wrote it. I am sure they had reasons.
binabinaaa
Sat 01-24-2009
Yo motts, just stumbled onto kings park today... lol..... its a lot better than Pilgrim State. It looks a lot more desolate and non- vandalized and security patched
Trevor
Sat 02-07-2009
The SS looks way too clean to be about 60 something years old.
Shirezu
Sat 02-07-2009
Jury is still out for me, I cant say one way or another.
Kristiara
Fri 05-29-2009
could that actually be scraped as it was rendered?like when one writes their name in wet cement??
just a suggestion.
Aarongeorge
Mon 01-11-2010

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