Île Longue
Île Longue ( Breton Enez-Hir ) is a headland on the Crozon Peninsula in the Finistère department in Brittany . It is located in the Rade de Brest bay south of Brest . An island of the same name is located in the Morbihan department .
Naval base
The peninsula is used as a naval base for the French Navy , especially for the nuclear submarines of the so-called Force de frappe and the associated technical systems.
The internment camp on Île Longue 1914–1919
During the First World War, there was an internment camp on the Île Longue, this small and remote headland in the Brest Bay , in which mainly German , Austrian , Hungarian and Turkish civilians were held. The first to be locked up there were the male passengers of the Dutch passenger steamer Nieuw Amsterdam , which was seized by the French Navy and was supposed to bring a large number of reservists from North and South America from New York to Rotterdam . Among the passengers there were many artists, musicians, scientists and scholars who managed to develop a highly developed cultural life in the camp. So it is e.g. It is thanks, for example, to interned Georg Wilhelm Pabst , who would later become an important film director, that the camp theater in particular flourished amazingly. In the situation newspaper “Die Insel-Woche”, which was written, artistically designed and published by the internees, an impressive testimony to the reality of camp life has been preserved.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dossier Île Longue du Ministère de la Defense
- ↑ La France nucléaire: matières et sites: la Presqu'île de Crozon ( Memento of February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Ile Longue 1914-1919, the internment camp
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 30 ″ N , 4 ° 30 ′ 9 ″ W.