Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody,...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including:

• Flogging of Germans at Rabaul, New Britain: medical report and legal opinion.
• Reports on prisoners' camps at Wakefield, Yorkshire; Donington Hall, Leicestershire; Dyffryn Aled, Abergele, Denbighshire, Wales; Handforth, Cheshire; Douglas, Isle of Man; and Knockaloe, Isle of Man.
• Transfer of prisoners under sentence from Isle of Man to Liverpool.
• Internment camps at Malta and Stratford, London: complaints by internees.
• Internment of German women and children in India.
• Treatment of German prisoners at the camp at Trial Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
• Conditions in the internment camp at Tenom, North Borneo.
• Punishment for attempted escapes from places of internment.
• Correspondence of German prisoners at Ahmednagar, India; and complaints about the camp. Printed despatch from the Government of India concerning the treatment of German subjects at Ahmednagar.
• Employment of Germans interned in Canada.
• Treatment of German prisoners in Canada; example of Amherst Camp, Nova Scotia.
• Punishment of German prisoners in South Africa.
• Internment camp at Liverpool, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• Work voluntarily undertaken by German civilian prisoners.
• Lieutenant Thomas von Grote: his attempted escape from internment at Holyport, Berkshire, and sentence of nine months imprisonment at Chelmsford Detention Barracks. His protestation against long sentence.
• Report on Libury Hall German Farm Colony, Ware, Hertfordshire.
• Otto Schwerbrock, interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India: sentenced to two years' hard labour for being drunk and violent and resisting arrest.
• Treatment of German civilians in the Civilian Internment Camp at Fort Henry, near Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• Provision of food at Pietermaritzburg Camp, Union of South Africa.
• Conditions at the Lower Southern Hospital for prisoners at Dartford, Kent.
• Food supplied to prisoners at Wakefield.
• Publication of reports on prisoners' camps in Britain.
• Treatment of German civilians on board steamship Akassa, while being transported from Nigeria, Dahomey, Togoland and the Gold Coast to Liverpool, England.
• Treatment of German prisoners in Jamaica.
• Restriction of conversation at Liverpool Camp, New South Wales, Australia.
• Report on prisoners' working stations in the Isle of Man.

Code 1218 File 591 (papers 59444-180079).

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