Forgotten Hero of Bunker Valentin Callan Michele
Forgotten Hero of Bunker Valentin Callan Michele In 1943, thirty-two Irish POWs refused a Gestapo request to work for Germany. Thousands of the camp's prisoners perished, including five of the…
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Forgotten Hero of Bunker Valentin Callan Michele
In 1943, thirty-two Irish POWs refused a Gestapo request to work for Germany. Thousands of the camp's prisoners perished, including five of the Irishmen; their bodies fell into the foundations and were never recovered.The surviving Irishmen were saved by the goodwill of decent Germans. They were sent to a labor camp, where they were starved, beaten, and forced to dig the foundations for a Nazi super-structure codenamed Bunker Valentin - an immense U-boat factory.
His ship had been captured by a German raider two years before he ended up at the labor camp. Among them was Harry Callan, a Catholic boy from Derry who went to sea at sixteen as a British Merchant Navy seaman. Harry was unable to speak about the brutality he experienced for decades after he was liberated.
When he finally began to tell his story, his family were shocked by what they heard.In his eighties,
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