Los 8788

Beschreibung

POW Camp 198, originally built as a hostel for female workers in a munitions factory in Bridgend, became a POW camp for German officers after the invasion. The first ones arrived in November 1944, after an unsuccessful first attempt in January 1945, the successful second escape attempt of 70 German officers by digging a tunnel under the fence made the Camp infamous and was the template for the postwar movie "The Great Escape". In January 1946 the Camp was named Special Camp 11 and hosted high rank officers such as the Field Marshalls von Rundstedt, von Kleist, von Manstein or von Brauchitsch, the Generalobersten Heinrici, Student, von Vietinghoff or Halder, the SS-(Ober-)Gruppenführer Wolff, Steiner or Behrends and many many more. The documents include numerous lists about the number of POW's between 1945 and 1948, entry lists (e.g., "2.9.46 Gen.Feldm. v. Brauchitsch, Gen.Feldm. v. Manstein"), a list of all "German POWs in the United Kingdom" from 17.7.46, numerous letters (also from later years) from high-ranking officers to Fred Bieri, newspaper clippings with articles about prisoners of war, photos, and much more. Among the autographs are Rear Admiral Wilhelm Tackenberg as camp officer, Lieutenant Commander Alexander Sattler, General Walther Leuze, Colonel Walter Primus, Surgeon General Rudolf Attig, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (including two photos of his arrival in 1946 and in civilian clothes in 1947), General Adolf Strauss, General Wolf von Luckner, and General Hans-Georg von Seidel. The Swiss citizen Frédérick Bieri was the chief delegate of the London delegation of the International Red Cross and oversaw the treatment of German prisoners of war in all POW camps in Great Britain, a role he continued during the subsequent Korean War. The collection of documents from various British camps, as well as the number of letters and envelopes addressed to Bieri, suggests that this folder represents a documentation of his work from his personal papers.



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