Germany: Prisoners, including: P F Hauschild, a German subject interned in the Netherlands:...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

P F Hauschild, a German subject interned in the Netherlands: complaint about the confiscation of two blankets prior to his transfer from the UK.

T C Bierbaum, a German civilian prisoner interned at Hattem Camp in the Netherlands: request for the restoration to Mr C Fink of a sum of money deposited by him at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.

Inspection of internment camps in Africa, including:

• Request by the German Government for inspections to be carried out at Tanga Camp in German East Africa and at Aus Camp in German South West Africa.
• Agreement for inspections to be carried out by representatives of the Swiss Legation.
• Complaints by prisoners at Aus Camp about housing and clothing.

Oberleutnant zur See Geerdes, interned at Trial Bay, New South Wales, Australia: letter concerning relief payments to combatant prisoners.

German civilian prisoners transferred to the Netherlands, including:

• Need for the confirmation of German nationality of prisoners being transferred.
• Heinrich Prestfelder: questions relating to his nationality, with a copy of his deed of discharge as a Bavarian subject (in docket no.115666).

Ernest Bahr, a German prisoner captured in Togoland, Africa, including:

• Enquiries regarding his status as a combatant or civilian prisoner.
• Mademoiselle Frida Eichel: request for various documents belonging to Mr Bahr to be transferred to her custody.
• Confirmation by the government of the Gold Coast that Mr Bahr held the military rank of sergeant when he was captured.

Correspondence regarding application forms for the repatriation of various German prisoners, with lists of names (in docket nos.45874, 81852, 107829, 115579 and 116493).

Investigation into the circumstances of the deaths of certain German soldiers at Messines, France, including:

• German memoranda requesting investigations into the deaths of Karl Hasselmann and Unteroffizier Friedrich Kristoffel, allegedly shot following their capture.
• Ernst Kreddig: statement that Karl Hasselmann was shot during fighting.
• Karl Kassel: statement concerning the death of Unteroffizier Friedrich Kristoffel.
• Musketeer Gustav Lauer, interned at Dartford War Hospital: extract from a statement concerning the deaths of certain German soldiers.

Fritz and August Poppe, interned at Alexandra Palace: decision not to permit the transmission to Germany of their claim for business losses.

Provision of wine and spirits for interned prisoners, including:

• German memorandum requesting a reciprocal agreement on the sending of half bottles of wine to interned prisoners.
• Advice from the War Office that wine should only be issued to interned German civilians and combatant prisoners of officer rank.
• Sir John Butcher MP: parliamentary question about British policy on the issue of wine and spirits to prisoners.

Friedrich Curt Bac: transfer to a different compound in Knockaloe Camp.

Remittances to German nationals in East Africa, including:

• Mr Otto Gruson: arrangements for payments to be made to him on behalf of the Lutheran Evangelical Mission at Moschi, German East Africa.
• Erich Wolff at Kilimanjaro, East Africa: approval for a payment to be made to him.
• Frau Anny Giese, at Tanga, East Africa: approval for a payment to be made to her.
• Hermann Kloefkorn, interned at Dar es Salaam, German East Africa: request for permission for a payment to be made to him.
• Mrs Casilie Grimmer at Dar es Salaam, German East Africa: request by Barclays Bank for permission to send her a remittance.
• Mrs Lotte Weichert at Dar es Salaam, German East Africa: permission for a remittance to be sent to her.
• Frau Treuge Pabst in German East Africa: permission for a remittance to be sent to her.
• Policy on the receipt of money from neutral countries by interned and uninterned enemy subjects; requirement for payments to be made through the administrator of an occupied territory.
• Charlotte Deppe, a German subject resident at Tanga, East Africa: permission for a remittance to be sent to her.

Mrs Dorothy Stäber: arrangements for her repatriation to Germany.

Mr H Nürnberger, a German subject resident in Brazil: request for permission to return to South West Africa.

Dr Heinrich Lötz, a German subject resident in Brazil: request for permission to return to South West Africa.

Investigation into reports that German women interned at Tempe Camp, Bloemfontein, South Africa, were being prevented from corresponding with their husbands, who were interned elsewhere.

Enquiry from the German Government regarding the whereabouts and welfare of Georg and Julie Eberhardt and their three children, last known at Rehoboth, German South West Africa, including:

• Information from Mrs C Hermann that Mr and Mrs Eberhardt were dead, and that their children were being cared for by a guardian.
• Proposals for the repatriation of the children.

Sentence of imprisonment on the German subjects Brügers and Schneider from Swakopmund, South West Africa, including:

• German memorandum requesting information regarding their sentences.
• Confirmation that they had been sentenced to imprisonment for aiding certain interned German officers at Swakopmund in an attempted escape.
• Report on the circumstances of their arrest and their subsequent trial.

Dr Theodor Schneller, Director of the Syrian Orphanage at Jerusalem, including:

• Request by the German Government for his immediate release following reports of his internment.
• Confirmation that Dr Schneller was in good health and still in his post at Jerusalem.

Dr Erich Schultz, former Governor of Samoa, interned at Motuihi Camp, New Zealand, including:

• Complaint by Dr Schultz regarding Mr W J Pugh, the Swiss Consul at Auckland, New Zealand.
• Request by Dr Schultz for repatriation.

Confirmation that documents relating to civil law drawn up by German prisoners and attested by a Camp Commandant were not subject to stamp duty or other forms of taxation.

Graf R von Vitzhum, a German civilian interned in Switzerland: request for information about the condition of his farm near Blantyre, Nyasaland; confirmation that the estate had been sold by the Custodian of Enemy Property.

Hauptmann von Rauchhaupt: exhumation of his body and reburial in a separate grave in Streatham Park Cemetery.

Welfare of certain German subjects interned in Palestine, including:

• Enquiry by the German Government about the alleged deportation of certain German ministers of religion (names in docket no.57348) from Jerusalem and Jaffa to Rafa, Palestine.
• Information that the ministers had now been transferred to Sidi Ashr Camp, Alexandria, Egypt, with the exception of three who were resident in Jerusalem.
• List of names (in docket no.98286) of German subjects who had been interned at Rafa, with the operational reasons for their internment.
• German memorandum requesting the repatriation of Johannes Wennage and Christian Baerle from Sidi Bishr Camp on health grounds.
• Pastor von Rabenau: request by the German authorities for his repatriation.

Code 1218 Files 41794-57348.

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