Hello Christoph!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I have to figure out how to take the scanned document and send it on this site. How did you ever know so much about the hospital in Siegburg?
Now the latest news that I must share with you is that I decided not to wait for Mr. Norton to be notified by the Newspaper to see if I could call him. Instead I found his telephone number and called him. First I spoke to his wife and I knew then that I had found probably the one man that is still alive that was in that Siegburg Hospital. When Mr. Norton returned home he called me.
It is true Mr. Norton was there during the time my Dad was there! And believe it or not, he remembers my Dad!! It is so crazy after all of the years of hope and research! Mr. Norton even remembers my Dad was a big guy and "watched over all of us." He remembers more about him and also wondered what happened to him.
My Dad and another guy (Gidrie) told Norton and some others in the barracks that they were going to try to escape. Dad said he had a 45 pistol on him. Mr. Norton remembers wishing him luck!
Dad wanted to get to the Allied side to tell them not to bomb Siegburg because there were Allied prisoners at this German Military Hospital. My research has revealed that Siegburg was never bombed again after his debriefing with General Collins.
Mr. Norton noted that after Dad left, out of nowhere, they got their first delivery from the Red Cross! (That was one of the many things Dad accomplished in his debriefing.)
I plan to go visit Mr. Norton and his wife as soon as I can!
Do you happen to know more about Siegburg during the period of approximately Oct. 15th until the end of the War. The barracks where the Allied prisoners were located according to Mr. Norton were just below the Abbey.
I will work on scanning the document.
Jean Jacobson