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Nissen hut

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Nissen hut
a military shelter of semicircular cross section, made of corrugated steel sheet

Nissen hut
A semicylindrically shaped prefabricated building of corrugated steel, usually thermally insulated.


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The Nissen huts housed low-risk captives who were allowed to mingle outside with villagers.
As he neared the border he overtook a car on an inside hard shoulder but lost control when he hit a footpath causing his vehicle to career across the road and smash into Mr Long's Nissen hut shop.
With the twentieth century this trade dwindled, but the industry was saved by the invention of the Nissen hut, just in time to house the millions of soldiers in the World Wars.
 
 
 
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