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

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Treatment of British prisoners and conditions in camps, including:

• Red Cross delegates meeting at Stockholm.
• Prisoners' camp at Ingolstadt.
• Alleged shooting of British prisoners at Limburg.
• International Committee for Wounded and War Prisoners, Maastricht.
• British naval prisoners at Doberitz.
• Reports upon prisoners' camps in Germany: arrangements for their communication.
• Employment of British prisoners in Germany.
• Treatment of British prisoners in Germany: alleged differentiation against Canadians.
• Private H Whitling, West Riding Regiment, prisoner at Döberitz: information from German government regarding his welfare.
• Treatment of British prisoners at Stendal.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Munich and Ingolstadt; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 178444).
• Cholera: reported outbreak at Munster.
• Officers' camp at Halle: request for thorough inspection visit by US authorities.
• Transfer of British prisoners to other camps.
• Lieut Hubert Pelham-Burn, Gordon Highlanders, interned at Mainz: information from him regarding his treatment.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: officers' camp at Burg; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 182234).
• Feeding of British prisoners in Germany.
• Grimsby fishermen, prisoners of war in Germany: treatment; report by William Savory, of Grimsby, captured from trawler Seti, repatriated to UK.
• Prisoners' camp at Wittenburg.
• Visits of inspection to prisoners' camps in Germany: authorisation for purchase of car by US authorities.
• Prisoner of war camp at Dyrotz.
• Limburg military detention camp: report by Sir Robert Younger, Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.
• British officers at Beeskow, Güstrin and Wülzburg: transfer to other camps.
• Wittenburg: conditions in camp and in the lazaret; report by Dr Karl Ohnesorg, Surgeon, US Navy.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Blankenburg; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 187207).
• Treatment of prisoners of war in Germany: report by Mr P de Makeeff, Russian mining engineer of Ekaterinburg.
• Wittenburg and Altdamm prisoners' camps: reports made by Dr B W Caldwell, Director, American Red Cross Sanitary Commission (in docket no. 188610).
• Ill-treatment of British prisoners: report on violations of The Hague and Geneva Conventions reported by British medical officers repatriated from Germany.
• Dyrotz camp: conditions prevailing at camp.
• Limburg camp: treatment of prisoners.
• Private W H Read, 13th Kensington Regiment, prisoner of war at Giessen: enquiry from his father, Arthur J Read of Walworth, London.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Quedlinburg; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 190982).
• Officer prisoners' camp at Gutersloh: reports made by Dr B W Caldwell, Director, American Red Cross Sanitary Commission (in docket no. 190983).
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Spreenhagen; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 190987).
• Irish Brigade: alleged formation by Irish non-commissioned officer prisoners in Berlin; includes extract from The Gaelic American, New York, November 1915, with picture of officers and original signatures of individuals (in docket no. 190990).
• British prisoners in Giessen: enquiry from Mrs M Henderson of Bexhill-on-Sea regarding the non-delivery of supplies she had sent.
• Employment of British prisoners in ammunition factories.
• Parcels in bulk for prisoners in Germany.
• Capt W Knight Bruce, prisoner at Torgan: enquiry from his aunt, Mrs Sotheran of Lewes, regarding supplies sent to him.
• Parcels of food for British prisoners: enquiry from J G Carruthers of Belfast.
• Decision of German War Office that food can only be sent addressed to individual prisoners.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: Merseburg; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 196667).
• Treatment of prisoners at Limburg.
• Tobacco for British prisoners.
• Condition of British prisoners at Döberitz: communication from Charles Sharpe, New Barnet, regarding his son, C H Sharpe, RNVR.
• Prisoners' camp at Wittenburg: enquiry whether commandant had changed.
• Capt George Elliot, Royal Irish Regiment, imprisoned at Burg: enquiry into conditions of punishment; also two other officers, Capt B W Allistone and Lieut C F L Templer.
• Prisoners'camps at Münster, Westphalia: unfavourable reports by Dr B W Caldwell, Director, American Red Cross Sanitary Commission (in docket no. 198174).
• Visits to prisoner camps: German government decision to permit visits without advance notification, subject to reciprocity.
• Prisoner camps in Germany: request for Foreign Office interview by Dr Ella Scarlett-Synge of London, to discuss her camp visits.
• Treatment of prisoners at Sennelager.
• British prisoners at Stendal.
• Communications addressed by prisoners to US ambassador, Berlin.
• Treatment of prisoners at Torgan.
• Reports on prisoners' camps in Germany: 'working' camps at Königsmoor and Hakenmoor bei Ströhen; inspection report by US officials (in docket no. 202037).
• 'Bureau de Secours aux prisonniers de guerre': short report by president of British section, Berne.

Code 1218 File 1061 (papers 173269-end).

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