Germany: Prisoners, including: Correspondence between interned German subjects and...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Correspondence between interned German subjects and their families, including:

• Oberstleutnant Hübener, interned at Verdala Barracks, Malta: enquiry about the suspension of correspondence with his family in German East Africa.
• Major Gideon von Grawert, interned at Verdala Barracks, Malta: request for news of his wife, Frau Wanda von Grawert, at Mahenge, German East Africa; subsequent information that Frau von Grawert and her two children had been transferred to Marseilles, France.
• German memorandum about delays in the delivery of mail from German subjects in German East Africa and their relatives interned in Egypt.
• Request by the Vatican for improved facilities for correspondence between German prisoners interned in Alexandria, Egypt, and their relatives in German East Africa.
• Information that correspondence between German subjects in the German colonies and German subjects elsewhere had been stopped as a reprisal for the restrictions placed on correspondence by Belgian subjects.
• Erich Koethe, interned at Ahmednagar, India: request that he and other prisoners in the camp should be allowed to receive news from their families in German East Africa.
• Correspondence concerning the transmission to the German Government of a petition from prisoners at Ahmednagar Camp, India, regarding the prohibition of postal communications with German East Africa.
• Carl Beckendorf, interned at Malta: transmission of a message to his wife, Frau Marthe Beckendorf, via the British Consul at Cape Town, South Africa.
• Letter addressed to Erich Koethe, a German subject interned at Ahmednagar, India, which was not delivered due to censorship issues.
• Printed copies of official correspondence following a request from Otto Heinemann, interned at Ahmednagar, India, for information about his wife, Margaret Heinemann, resident at Amani, German East Africa; similar correspondence from H Schulze, A Livengtel and H Rehse at Ahmednagar.
• Pastor Mensching and Christian Hedde, interned at Ahmednagar: copies of letters requesting information on their families in German East Africa.
• Correspondence concerning the transmission of photographs from German subjects interned in Malta to their wives (names in docket no. 115294) in German East Africa.

Code 1218 Files 10514-13383.

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