Germany: Prisoners, including: Request by the Technical Club at Douglas Detention...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Request by the Technical Club at Douglas Detention Camp to receive certain technical periodicals; decision by the War Office to withhold permission.

Oberleutnant der Reserve Wilhelm Brandt and Unteroffizier Werner Müller, including:

• Report by the British authorities that Oberleutnant Brandt had been acquitted at his trial before a military court.
• German memorandum requesting information on the whereabouts of Oberleutnant Brandt; confirmation that he was interned in Egypt.
• Unteroffizier Müller: sentence of three years penal servitude at Dar es Salaam military court.
• Geman memorandum protesting about the sentences passed on Unteroffizier Müller and Kapitänleutnant J Schutt.

Transfer of German civilian prisoners from Pietermaritzburg to Kanus, South West Africa, including:

• Request by the German Government for a list of the prisoners; provision of the list (in docket no. 1099234) by the British authorities, and the reasons for their transfer.
• Mr Adolf Jelinek: copy of a letter complaining about the circumstances of the transfer and the conditions at Kanus.
• Report on conditions at Kanus Camp.

Gustav Menk, a German prisoner interned in France: decision not to permit his transfer to British custody.

Correspondence regarding lists of German prisoners repatriated from South Africa on SS Erna Woermann and SS Rufidgi.

Allegations regarding the treatment of German prisoners in France after their capture, including:

• German memoranda alleging that officers had been robbed following their arrest, and threatening reprisals.
• Copy of a letter from German officers interned at Holyport Camp.
• British memorandum responding to the allegations, with comments from the War Office.
• Explanation of the reasons for the stoppage of correspondence rights for some German prisoners.
• Evidence from various German prisoners (names in docket no. 34583) of their alleged ill-treatment by British soldiers.

Max Neukuchatz, a repatriated German subject: decision not to permit the transmission of certain forms to him from the UK.

Oberleutnant Günther Voigt, interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India, including:

• Request for his transfer on health grounds to a hill station; decision not to permit the transfer.
• Claim for a refund of the money taken from him when captured in Persia.

Issues of dual nationality, including:

• Dr Fritz Noetling, former German Consul at Hobart, Tasmania: information that he was a naturalised British subject.
• Request by the German authorities for Dr Noetling's repatriation, with claims that he held dual British and German nationality.
• Proposal by the German authorities for a reciprocal agreement on the repatriation of women and children possessing dual nationality, with a list (in docket no. 109623) of German children currently detained in the UK.
• Demand by certain naturalised British subjects of German origin interned in Australia for repatriation.
• Walter Grunewaldt and Florian Rohner, interned at Liverpool Camp, New South Wales, Australia: confirmation of their German nationality.

Costs of repatriating German civilians, including:

• Rejection by the German Government of British proposals for refunding the costs of repatriation, with a sample enquiry form for the provision of details regarding the repatriation of uninterned German civilians.
• British memorandum suggesting alternative arrangements.
• Kapitän Carl Diercks: request by the German Embassy at The Hague for a refund of the costs of his repatriation.

Claims made by German prisoners for compensation from the British Government, including:

• German memorandum requesting compensation for the loss of personal effects of prisoners during transportation from Tilbury to Le Havre, France.
• Allegations that possessions were removed from the prisoners at Brocton Camp prior to their departure, with lists of the prisoners' names (in docket no. 76949) and the missing possessions.

German memorandum protesting that German officers transferred to Switzerland were obliged to leave most of their luggage in England.

Heinrich Ludwig Krüder, formerly interned at Ahmednagar, India: request by the German authorities for a copy of his death certificate.

Personal effects of certain deceased German civilians, including:

• German memorandum requesting the return of personal effects, with particular reference to four cases (names in docket no. 41703) and a list of the personal effects of Mr Ernst Schirmer.
• Information that Mr Schirmer had removed his possessions when he was repatriated.
• Johannes Deistel: request by his widow for his possessions to be returned to Mülhausen, Germany.

Code 1218 Files 26671-41703.

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