ÃŽle Longue

Ile Longue, Breton Enos -Hir, is a headland on the Crozon peninsula in the Finistère department in Brittany. It is located in the bay Rade de Brest south of Brest.

Naval Base

The peninsula is used as a naval base of the French Navy, particularly for the nuclear submarines of the so-called force de frappe and related technical equipment.

See also: List of naval bases

The internment camp on Ile Longue 1914 - 1919

On the Ile Longue, this small and secluded headland at the Brest Bay, was located during the First World War, an internment camp, where one ate mainly German, Austrian, Hungarian and Turkish civilians. As the first there, the male passengers of the force applied by the French Navy Dutch passenger steamer " Nieuw Amsterdam " were imprisoned, was to take a large number of reservists from North and South America from New York to Rotterdam. Among the passengers, many artists, musicians, scientists and scholars who were able to develop a highly developed cultural life in the camps were. It is, for example, the internees Georg Wilhelm Pabst, which should be an important film director later owe, that particularly came the camp theater to an amazing flower. - In the even written by the internees, artistically designed and published position paper " The island - week " has been preserved an impressive testimony to the reality of camp life.