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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.
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During the Second World War the site served as a wartime hostel for Bevin Boys and after the war, due to the severe housing shortage in the city, a number of families, including my parents, moved into the scores of Nissen huts then occupying the site.
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The Magilligan site, with its collection of Nissen huts and random, often unsuitable buildings needs to be redeveloped if the prison is to remain there.
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