Germany: Prisoners, including: Letter from German ships' officers and engineers interned...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Letter from German ships' officers and engineers interned at Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia, complaining about the conditions of their internment.

Freifrau von Lüttwitz: arrangements for her repatriation from Canada to Germany via ship from New York to Christiania, Norway.

Herr Hans Tecklenburg, former Deputy Governor of Samoa: repatriation from New Zealand with his wife, including:

• Approval for their internment in France following their arrival in the UK.
• Departure of Herr Tecklenburg and his wife on SS Honorata.
• Decision to transfer Herr Tecklenburg from France to Switzerland.
• Arrangements for the return of money and papers to Herr Tecklenburg.
• Refusal by the German Government of an offer to repatriate Herr Tecklenburg and his wife in exchange for the release of Sir John Irvin.

Rejection of a proposal for the appointment of a Swiss representative to oversee payments to prisoners at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.

Walter Alfred Groedel, a civilian prisoner interned at Wakefield Camp: approval for his transfer to Switzerland.

Herr Weiler: notification of his death on board ship while being repatriated from Siam (Thailand) to Germany via the UK.

Leutnant der Landwehr Hans Beneke: reimbursement for arrears of pay.

Transfer of prisoners to the Polish internment camp at Feltham, Middlesex, including:

• Request by the Chief Captain of Stobs Camp, W Quart, for the return to Stobs Camp of the non-commissioned officers Franz Krompitz, Franz Lauda and Anton Ziwinski, interned at Feltham.
• Request for the re-transfer of certain prisoners to Catterick Camp.
• Johann Pastuschka, a German prisoner interned at Stobs Camp: protest against his proposed transfer to Feltham.
• Josef Wierzwa, Karl Bursa and Karl Wloschek: protests against their transfer to Feltham.
• Paul Pisarzowski, a German subject: protest about his transfer to Feltham.
• R Nieslong, Paul Plewnia and Karl Augustin: protest against their transfer to Feltham.
• Paul Scharck, a German subject interned at Stainton Sidings: request for a transfer to Feltham.
• Policy on the repatriation of Polish prisoners at Feltham.
• Sigismund Olschewski: protest about his transfer to Feltham.
• Arrangements for attendance at a conference to discuss the status of enemy prisoners sympathetic to the Allied cause under the terms of the new Hague Agreement, with minutes of the meeting.
• Approval at the meeting for Polish prisoners to be allowed to enlist in the Polish Legion in France.
• Names (in docket no. 113106) of German prisoners interned at Blantyre, Nyasaland.
• Confirmation of the status of Feltham as a registered camp.
• Emile Bender, interned at Dorcheseter Camp: decision for him to remain in British custody.

Procedures regarding retired and reserve German officers interned in the UK, including:

• Dr Walther Stark, interned at Lofthouse Park Camp, Wakefield: enquiry about the status of retired and reserve officers.
• Confirmation that all reserve officers who had been interned for eighteen months or more would be transferred to the Netherlands.
• German memorandum concerning a list of German reserve officers to be transferred.
• Agreement that reserve officers should qualify for combatant status.
• British memorandum requesting clarification of the status of retired officers.
• List of specific cases (in docket no. 68076).
• Transfer to the Netherlands of various German reserve officers (names in docket nos. 68077-114600).
• German memorandum stating that all British retired officers and civilian prisoners ranking as officers had been transferred to the Netherlands for internment, and enclosing a list (in docket no. 119504) of German civilians of officer rank over the age of 45 years, who were still interned in the UK.

Prohibition by the British Government of the use of certain enquiry forms by German prisoners.

Objections to a proposal for the segregation of certain prisoners at Knockaloe Camp.

Decision not to allow the transmission to the German Government of reports by certain German clergymen regarding internment camps in the UK.

Richard Heckmann, a German prisoner interned in a military camp in Algeria: letter from his wife protesting about the conditions of his internment, and proposal for his exchange for a French prisoner held in Germany.

Internment of certain German prisoners from India to Egypt, including:

• Lieutenant H Neumann: request for a transfer from Ahmednagar Camp, India, to the Dutch East Indies; subsequent transfer to Sidi Bishr, Egypt, and request for repatriation.
• Lieutenant E H Weiss, interned at Sidi Bishr, Egypt: complaint about his treatment while interned at Ahmednagar, India.

Kapitänleutnant der Reserve Franz Rintelen, including:

• German memorandum claiming that Captain Rintelen had been unlawfully surrendered to the American authorities.
• Article from The New York Times of 6 February 1918 reporting on the sentence of hard labour passed on Captain Rintelen and ten accomplices for acts of sabotage carried out in USA while it was still a neutral country.
• Copy of a yellow enquiry form concerning Captain Rintelen, the name of the enquirer being Herr Michelis.

Code 1218 Files 3164-8251.

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