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| Written by Norbert Zorn |
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This research now reveals that between 1940-1945 Irish seamen who had been serving aboard different British merchant vessels who were captured by German Commerce Raiders, were later transported to Bordeaux in France, then to Drancy Concentration Camp outside Paris, then via Bremervorde to Sandbostel Concentration Camp in Germany and ended up circa late1942 in Milag Nord [The Marine Internierten Lager] merchant navy internment camp at Westertimke in Northern Germany. In January1943 thirty two Irish merchant seamen were selected by the Germans and transported from Milag Nord to the Bremen labour office. Later in February 1943 and without warning they were moved to the notorious SS work camp designated as an Arbeitserziehungslager [AEL] at Farge just outside Bremen. The above mentioned extract has been taken from
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Harry Callan



Harry Callan war irischer Seemann.