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| 21.Jan.2001 22:17 | | To: All |
| Very interesting - I shall return. I found the site while searching for the answer to a request from an American friend from Long Island, NY, USA who recalls crossing the English Channel in 1946 - while he was serving with the US forces - and, on the same ship, he saw a high-ranking German officer being escorted to the UK for imprisonment following sentencing at the Nurnburg War Crimes Trials. My American friend can not remember the name of the German officer and he asked me to help to identify him. I think, from information gleaned from your site and others, it may have been von Runstedt, en route to Island Farm camp at Bridgend. |
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| 11.Jan.2001 22:19 | | To: All |
I was looking for information about Bridgend in WWII for my litte girl, I found this information very interesting myself. I have not lived here long and I come from small town near Blackpool, it has took me a long time to settle here but finding out about the history of Bridgend has helped me settle and grow to love Bridgend. I feel Island Farm should of been saved for hitorical reasons, Bridgend needs to preserve it's history.
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| 11.Jan.2001 22:18 | | To: All |
I am very impressed with your site, I moved to this area 4 years ago and found a little info regarding the p o w site from my sister in law. but now I can inform her of great deal more than she could ever have relised, once again thank you for a most interesting site. p s would you know why von kleist ended up hanged in a russian prison camp in 1954.
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| 29.Dec.2000 22:19 | | To: All |
I used to live in Bridgend and have visited the camp when I was younger and it was nice to see a site dedicated to Island Farm and interesting to look through all the information and pictures
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| 24.Dec.2000 22:20 | | To: All |
Ça fait plusieurs années que je fais des recherches au sujet de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale et j`ai trouvé votre site qui m`a énormément impressionné. Je vous féli-cite et je vous souhaite de continuer.
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| 11.Dec.2000 22:20 | | To: All |
| I BELIEVE THAT YOU DID A VERY GOOD JOB GIVEN THAT IT IS 55+ YEARS AFTER THE FACT THIS MAKES YOU WONDER ABOUT RUSSIA AND HOW THE PRISONERS WERE TREATED. I ALSO WONDER HOW THE REST OF THE TROOPS WERE TREATED AND HOW THEY WERE RELEASED. WELL DONE GEORG |
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| 12.Nov.2000 22:21 | | To: All |
Very interesting site, enjoyed looking at the images. I didn't realise that some many senior ranks had been held in Bridgend. My grandfather, Mr Jack Barratt was the local newspaper reporter who covered the escape for the local and in the first instance the national press
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| 28.Oct.2000 22:21 | | To: All |
An excellent and interesting site. I have long wondered what happened to certain senior officers after the surrender.
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| 24.Oct.2000 22:21 | | To: All |
| Very interesting to look at, and I will be definately coming back to revisit the site. Thanx |
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| 7.Oct.2000 22:22 | | To: All |
A great site. Thank you for recording this most interesting story. It is important that these things are not forgotten. Eden Camp near York is now an established visitor centre. Maybe there's scope for something similar but smaller here as well.
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| 5.Oct.2000 22:23 | | To: All |
Very interisting. thank you
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| 26.Aug.2000 22:23 | | To: All |
I was most impressed by your web page. Ihave been searching for 2 years for information on the POW camp at Inverurie Aberdeenshire, I remember the Italian and German prisoners and some of the guards as two were billeted with us, but information is very limited or non-existent. There must be records somewhere, but where. Would appreciate any help you could give. Yours sincerely
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| 25.Aug.2000 22:23 | | To: All |
I think Island Farm should have been saved because considering the magnitude of the personnel held there and, as well, the tribute it is to the unimaginable fortitude of the British people. They stood alone against the 3rd Reich at the apex of its power. And then the military leaders of this power were subjugated by their nemesis. Although in a much more humane and impartial manner than would have been extracted had the situation been reversed.
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| 4.Aug.2000 22:24 | | To: All |
| very very good job, congratulations! From these stories i think that the prisoners taken in England were by far the most lucky of the war. Having interesting in WW2 i am shocked about the fortune of milions of Germ. prisoners taken in Rusian END France hands at the end of the war. The impresive to me is that beyond the POWs also nearly all the battles between English end German units it seems to me of a very civilise and chivalrous spirit(especialy speaking for the WW2)end i realy wonder for the reasons. In Greece we had also a very impresive for us chivalrous "first contact" with the German army after the defeat, but to last only until the starting of guerilla war a year later. Again bravo |
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| 2.Aug.2000 22:24 | | To: All |
This is a very interesting site. I am particularly interested in Gerd von Rundstedt since he was my Great Grandfather's first cousin. You deserve lots of credit for this good work. Martin Goebel
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| 31.Jul.2000 22:25 | | To: All |
Dear Sirs, The website on the Island Farm Camp No. 11 is really interesting. During my research for my doctor thesis I studied Field Marshall Walther von Brauchitsch who has been a POW there. Best wishes for the further work on your sites Jürgen Löffler
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| 17.Jul.2000 22:25 | | To: All |
Loved the website, it was it was really good and very interesting
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| 7.Jul.2000 22:25 | | To: All |
Very interesting! You have put it together well. The section on famous personalities is especially interesting.
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| 6.Jul.2000 22:26 | | To: All |
Thought that I would look your site over and assumed that it would ony take a few minutes but to my surprise it was much more than I anticipated and I enjoyed all. If only you could do all countries (POW Camps) it would certainly be very helpful to many who would like to know all that is possible. Regards Annelie
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| 23.Jun.2000 22:27 | | To: All |
I visited your site today and I just wanted to say that I found it very interesting. Keep up the good work! Marcus _____ Visit me at http://www.skalman.nu/ "It is only petty men who seem normal." Umberto Eco "The name of the rose"
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| 21.Jun.2000 22:27 | | To: All |
A very interesting web page. Glad that background info is given on the VIPs, although I would like to see a lot more of their lives as prisoners (for instance, loved the bit about von Rundstedt being so bored that he offered to clean a soldier's boots, and then had to be told how to do it...
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| 21.Jun.2000 22:26 | | To: All |
| Nice site Brett....thanks |
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| 29.May.2000 22:28 | | To: All |
I enjoyed this article about island farm very much. As I live locally, it was interesting to read about local history that took place during world-war two!
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| 17.May.2000 22:28 | | To: All |
| Excellent site. I am living in America and very interested in POW camps for both sides of the War. I am currently researching, through peronal accounts, stories from allied fliers bailing out and evading capture in Europe. This is a major part of our history and first hand accounts are disappearing day by day. This is a part of our history that we must not forget. Keep up the good work |
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| 14.May.2000 22:29 | | To: All |
Dear Sir. I came across this web site while trying to locate possible camping sites in Germany for my family's summer holiday. I knew there had been a POW escape from Bridgend as I recall a television documentary being on TV 15 - 20 years ago. I found your site interesting, but what has become of the camp site now that it has been demolished? Housing or B&Q. I suspect you have a general interest in WW2 topics. 10 years ago my job took me to Sony on Bridgend ind est. I got chatting to a guy who was/is my age (40). He was quite interested in WW2 and proceeded to tell me about the large underground munitions works that lay below Sony and the rest of that estate. More of which I would like to know. He also told me about a story he had been told by, I believe, his father that there had been an American camp at a place called RUTHIN on common land. I happened to have with me that day a Ordnance Survey Map no 170. He marked on this map the exact location . I still have this map the co-ordinates 975,798. His father recalls the day the GI's broke camp to return to the USA (the war had finished). They were in such a hurry that they dug a very big hole in the ground and dropped all equipment into it. In fact they drove lorries, Jeeps etc down a ramp, parked them up and then bulldozed the hole back in. I have thought on a number of occasions, what a good dig that would be! All the best Tim Ponter
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