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Germany: Prisoners, including: Chemnitz prisoner of war camp: arrangements for repatriation...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/493
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This record is about the Germany: Prisoners, including: Chemnitz prisoner of war camp: arrangements for repatriation... dating from 1919 in the series Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 383/493
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Chemnitz prisoner of war camp: arrangements for repatriation of invalid prisoners.
Prussian Ministry of War response to British complaints of conditions at prisoner of war camps and ill-treatment of prisoners, including:
- German explanation regarding accommodation of British troops in former pigsty at Helingolen (Soltau) prisoner of war camp and enforced signing of pay sheets at point of bayonet.
- Branch prisoner of war camp Grossenwedermoor: German view of conduct of commander, Lieutenant Buhe and employment of non-commissioned officers at the camp.
- Zwerbst prisoner of war camp.
- Response to complaints by A J F Higgins about conditions at Meschede prisoner of war camp.
- Treatment of Corporal F de Grandmont, while interned at Herberger Zuschlag prisoner of war camp.
- Circumstances of death of Private Richard Caffery, Royal North Lancashire Regiment.
- Reaction to statements of Sergeant Major Farrell, Mathew Samuel Cunningham and G Mackwell regarding conditions at Stendal prisoner of war camp.
- Letter from the British Social Aid Committee on conditions at Soltau prisoner of war camp; with German response.
- Kaliwerk Neuhof prisoner of war camp.
- Giessen prisoner of war camp.
- Treatment of Captain E L I Webb, master of the ship Wartenfels.
- Victor prisoner of war camp.
Prussian Ministry of War report detailing conditions at Frankfurt prisoner of war camp giving information on health treatment provided to specific prisoners:
- Albert Bailey.
- Albert Bishop.
- Arthur Schofield.
- John Smith.
- Bertie Barbier.
- Reginald Stokdale.
Conditions at prisoner of war camps, including:
- Statement of Private F T Swanston of the 50th Battalion of Australian Infantry, regarding conditions and violent treatment at Perleberg prisoner of war camp, after Armistice convention.
- Statement of Private H B Lovell of the 7th Middlesex Regiment of Lancashire Fusiliers, regarding conditions and violent treatment at Perleberg prisoner of war camp, after Armistice convention.
Conditions at Langensalza prisoner of war camp:
- Shooting of French prisoners: reports (in French) by witnesses.
- German position on conditions, with refutation of allegations of Sergeant Jackson.
Despatches from South Africa enclosing letters and telegrams with resolutions passed respecting measures to be taken to punish those responsible for the ill-treatment of British prisoners of war in Germany.
Code 1218 File 7 (papers 2247-3290).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- File 7 (pp.2247-3290).
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