Island Farm

Iceland Farm is a former British camp for World War II prisoners of war near Bridgend. It was originally built for women employed in the armaments industry.

The camp was run as Camp 198, in which about 2,000 German and Italian prisoners of war were placed. Since it was considered too comfortable for simple soldiers, starting in November 1944, officers were taken.

The war prisoners dug two escape tunnels, one of which was discovered, the other remained undetected. On March 10, 1945, 84 prisoners managed to escape from the camp, as they had a similar year earlier in Stalag Luft III. The tunnel is still preserved today.

After the end of the war, the camp was run as Special Camp XI, including German generals, admirals and other accused of the war crimes trials in Nuremberg.

Closure took place in 1948 Single-level Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Normdaten (Geografikum): LCCN: no2004072175 | VIAF: 155123412

51.494166666667-3.5875Koordinaten: 51° 29′ 39″ N, 3° 35′ 15″ W

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