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Germany: Prisoners, including: Conditions and complaints of ill-treatment in prisoner...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/490
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FO 383/490
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Date (When the record was created)
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1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Conditions and complaints of ill-treatment in prisoner of war camps, including:
- Conditions at Stendal prisoner of war camp.
- Charles Allen: recollections of experiences in Tenne Lager prisoner of war camp.
- Private McCann, Royal Scots: signed statement of Lieutenant Corporal Hugh Brown on alleged ill-treatment as a prisoner of war in Westphalia.
- Shooting of Lieutenant Colheeny: details of next of kin in Rhode Island.
- Lieutenant Malcolm Watson: evidence relating to ill-treatment at Clausthal.
- Corporal Farrier R Steele on the alleged mutilation of a British prisoner of war, as published in an extract in the Morning Post dated 12 December 1918.
- List of British prisoners employed at Müncheberg prisoner of war camp, Roumania.
- Alleged employment in working camps of prisoners not told of Armistice conditions; includes printed copy of an extract by a special correspondent for The Times dated 16 January 1919, entitled 'Search for British Prisoners'.
Prussian Ministry of War response to representations by British Section of Netherlands Legation regarding ill-treatment of prisoners of war, including:
- Lieutenant S G Williams: response of German Government to Williams' allegations of conditions at Landshut camp, enclosing statements by British officers contradicting complaints.
- German statement regarding conditions at Döberitz prisoner of war camp and alleged ill-treatment of prisoners by Feldweble Passoth.
- Note from German Government regarding the treatment of prisoners of war pending their repatriation under Armistice terms.
- Riot at Langensalza prisoner of war camp: German report on incident which resulted in fifteen deaths including three British prisoners.
- Sergeant John Rodger: German explanation of his death after an incident at Giessen prisoner of war camp.
- German response to complaints of ill-treatment and poor conditions at specific prisoner of war camps: Meschede, Gewerkschaft Frielendorf, Gewerkschaft Einigkeit (Ehmen), Kerssenbrock, Beeskow, Zeche Katharina (Kray, Essen), Zeche Graf Moltke (Gladbeck), Officers camps Schweidnitz I and Schweidnitz II.
Proposed reparations for injuries inflicted on prisoners of war.
Code 1218 File 7 (papers 456-1141).
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File 7 (pp.456-1141).
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Open Document, Open Description
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