Comrie Development Trust was been awarded the Heritage Lottery Funding to convert ten of the huts into self-catering accommodation.

The eleventh will be restored as a common room displaying the history of the camp, which was built in 1941 and had the capacity to hold 4,500 inmates.

The news comes just days after Heinrich Steinmeyer, who was held in the PoW camp there in 1944, left the trust £384,000 in his will.

The camp at Cultybraggan was a category A camp, designed to hold German prisoners who were regarded as committed Nazis.

Mr Steinmeyer, a former member of the Waffen SS, left his entire estate to the village of Comrie, to help its elderly people, as gratitude for the “kindness” he was shown during his internment.

The trust has already been awarded £36,350 by Scottish and Southern Energy towards the cost of connecting the huts to the existing camp biomass boiler.

Historic Scotland has also pledged support, anticipated to be more than £100,000, to help repair the huts.

The camp and 50 acres of nearby hill ground was purchased by the trust in 2007 under Community Right to Buy legislation.

Trust secretary Andrew Reid said: “Comrie Development Trust is grateful to its funders for providing the opportunity to deliver a great new resource at the community-owned Cultybraggan Camp, and for the Strathearn area.”