Germany: Prisoners, including: Treatment of British prisoners and conditions in camps,...

FO 383/44

1915

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Treatment of British prisoners and conditions in camps, including:

• Conditions at prisoners' camp at Gardelegen.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Meschede, Westphalia, and officers' camp at Wahmbeck: inspection reports by US officials (in docket no. 119854).
• Ill-treatment of British prisoners at Ohrdruf.
• Assistance to British prisoners in Germany: War Office authorisation for grant to Prisoners of War Help Committee.
• Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: proposal that reports on camps be obtained from returned RAMC officers.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: officer camps at Neisse and Gnadenfrei in Silesia; inspection reports, some including lists of names, by US officials (in docket no. 122713).
• Reprisals against Canadian prisoners.
• Stoppage of privileges at Döberitz.
• Flour from Marseilles to the 'Bureau de Secours aux prisonniers de guerre' at Berne: question of French government allowing free transit across France.
• British section of 'Bureau de Secours aux prisonniers de guerre' at Berne: reports on work done.
• Camps in which British prisoners interned: list received from Prussian Ministry of War.
• Tobacco for British prisoners.
• Treatment of British prisoners at Bischofswerda.
• Assistance to British prisoners in Germany: question of whether activities of Prisoners of War Help Committee should be discontinued.
• Conditions at Sennelager: reports by Capt Robert Dolbey, RAMC.
• Prisoners' camps in enemy countries: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey; Major Ducrot's tri-weekly report on conditions.
• British prisoners at Giessen: Suffolk Regiment.
• Döberitz prisoners: removal to tents.
• Shipments from Prisoners of War Help Committee.
• Lieut Hubert Pelham-Burn, Gordon Highlanders, interned at Mainz: request from his mother, Margaret Pelham-Burn of Limpsfield, Surrey, that enquiries be made into possible ill-treatment.
• Supply of literature to prisoners in Germany.
• Medical treatment of prisoners at Döberitz: report by Capt G H Rees, RAMC, recently repatriated.
• Visits to prisoners' camps in Germany: reports on lazarets in Paderborn, camps at Sennelager, and officers' camp at Bad Blenhorst; inspection reports by US officials (in docket no. 137697).
• English prisoners in Germany: request by Mrs Adelaide Livingstone, Hon Secretary, Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War, for complete consignment of reports and documents relating to British prisoners.
• Camps at Giessen and Gottingen.
• Photographs of prisoners camps in Germany: transmission from US authorities in Berlin to Foreign Office.
• Gratuitous transport of flour for prisoners.
• Relief Funds: possible transfer back to London.
• Camps at Neisse and Gnadenfrei.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: officer camp at Clausthal: inspection report, including list of names, by US officials (in docket no. 140033).
• Prisoners' camp at Wurzburg: improvements following inspection by US military authorities; transfer of British prisoners.
• Sgt Charles Matthews, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and Private Edwin Thomas Baker, Connaught Rangers, escaped from Dülmen; statements made to British Consulate General, Rotterdam.
• Treatment of British prisoners at Dülmen: permission to receive books and form circulating library.
• Camp at Sennelager: transfer of forty civilian prisoners to Ruhleben.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Gardelegen; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 142910).
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Fort Zorndorf at Cüstrin (or Küstrin); inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 142911).
• Export of motor tyres for Germany, to be used on vehicles for visiting British prisoners.
• British prisoners at Döberitz: report on treatment, with observations on military matters around Döberitz, by Signalman G H Millar, RNVR, recently escaped; includes plan of camp, 1 Sept 1915 (in docket no. 145770).
• Treatment of British prisoners at Halle.
• Treatment of British prisoners at Stendal.
• British prisoners at Döberitz: letters from Camilla Picton-Warlow, Hon Treasurer, Bread Fund for Prisoners of War in Germany, relaying information received from her husband, Petty Officer A Picton-Warlow.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Amberg and Bayreuth, and officers' camp at Kronach; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 154180).
• Bread supplies for British prisoners in Germany.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: officers' camp at Bischofswerda; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 157329).
• Rations for prisoners of war in Germany.
• Treatment of British prisoners at Crefeldt: reports and interviews with released prisoners.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Schneidemühl; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 159768).
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Chemnitz, Bautzen, Lauban, Neuhammer, Konigsbrück, Zwickau, and Görlitz; inspection reports by US officials (in docket no. 159775).
• Whale meat: use in Germany.
• Treatment of thirty-nine 'reprisal' officers in Germany, in retaliation for treatment accorded to German submarine officers and crews.
• Transfer of officer prisoners between camps.
• Conditions at camp at Guterslöh.
• Alleged shooting of British prisoners at Limburg: information from two escaped Russian prisoners that about eighty prisoners were shot for refusing to adhere to smoking rules.
• Reports on camps for naval prisoners in Germany: request to US ambassador, Berlin.
• Treatment of British prisoners on working parties.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Crefeld, Wahn, Dülmen, Osnabrück, Friedrichsfelde, Herverst-Dorsten and Dorsten, and lazaret at Wesel; inspection reports by US officials (in docket no. 164380).
• Food for British prisoners in Germany.
• Comforts for prisoners of Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment:
• Ship's steward named Higgins: reports of his experiences in Sennelager camp, as published in Daily Mail.
• Alleged shooting of British prisoners at Limburg: complete set of interviews with returned prisoners (in docket no. 168238).
• British prisoners at Schloss Celle.
• Prisoners at Munster: reported cholera outbreak.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: officers' camp at Wulzburg, camp and hospital at Nuremberg, officers' camp at Halle, and camp at Wittenburg; inspection reports by US officials (in docket no. 169065).
• Conditions at Bischofswerda.
• Provision of funds for Prisoners of War Help Committee.
• Removal of British prisoners from Amberg.
• Prisoners' camp at Wittenburg.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Stendal; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 170421).
• Condition of British prisoners in Germany: suggestion that British Red Cross high official should be at Stockholm for informal conversations with Prince Max of Baden of German Red Cross.
• Conditions at Ingoldstadt.
• Alleviation of conditions of prisoners of war in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia: Red Cross conference, Stockholm.

Code 1218 File 1061 (papers 119513-173150).

File 1061 (pp.119513-173150).

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