WEBSITE AND HUT 9 UNDER ATTACK !
| 24th October 2002 | The 67 Island Farm Escapees were Nazis ! says Leader of Bridgend Council (Jeff Jones). |
| 16th January 2003 | An attack on this website was made by Jeff Jones. |
| 18th January 2003 | A Rabbi (who lost all his maternal family to the Holocaust) dismisses Jeff Jones' claims. |
| 31st January 2003 | Jeff Jones attacks Hinrich Behrends' visit to Island Farm (son of: SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Behrends) saying he "had no reason to visit it" ! |
| 31st January 2003 | A response from Hinrich Behrends |
| 6th February 2003 | Jeff Jones' claims the website interest is "unhealthy" and directs us to an article written by Ian Kershaw in the Guardian newspaper. (The link is to the Guardian newspaper article) |
| 14th February 2003 | A brilliant response from Eden Camp Museum to Jeff Jones. |
| 18th February 2003 | Ian Kershaw identified as being a Professor of Modern History at Sheffield University gives his professional opinion of this website. (See Readers comments below) |
| 20th February 2003 |
Jeff Jones,
who claims he is an educated & professional person, called this
website 'Cr*p'. |
| 3rd April 2003 | Jeff Jones tries to do a u-turn and claims that all his recent comments about Hut 9 were just a joke ! |
| 10th May 2003 |
An
appropriate quote taken from the "Commemorating the Holocaust"
document actively promoted by the Education department of Bridgend Council
and 3 other councils in South Wales!
"I had many illusions when I was liberated. I thought...that generations to come would be free from prejudice forever. Alas, I was wrong." Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Bergen-Belsen 15th April 1945 |
| 12th August 2003 | Jeff Jones' comments regarding the POW drawings from the Hut walls are shown in UK national newspapers (The Times, The Sun): "If this is art God help us"..."the artists must have been in the SS Painting By Numbers Brigade"..."Looking at the women (they painted), they are so ugly I would have stayed in the camp, I wouldn't have bothered to escape". |
| 21st August 2003 |
ZDF
German Television comes to Bridgend to interview myself and Jeff Jones
about his offensive comments and to view the drawings for themselves.
|
| 22nd August 2003 | Gazette newspaper headline talks of deep shame and embarrassment at Jeff Jones' comments with apology being given to Germany from the Bridgend Mayor |
Reader's Comments
- Some of the comments and emails of support against the above
articles including one from
Bletchley
Park !