Germany: Prisoners, including: Conditions at British prisoner of war camps: German...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Conditions at British prisoner of war camps:

• German complaint regarding conditions at Knockaloe prisoner of war camp on the Isle of Man.
• Report by Dr A de Sturler on officers' prisoner of war camp at Sandhill Park, near Taunton in Somerset, on 24 November 1918.
• Reports by Dr A de Sturler to prisoner of war camps in south west England: Lulworth, Swanage, Hatherleigh, Woodford, Wookey, Frome, Binegar, Devizes, Wootton Bassett and Ramsbury.
• Reports by Monsieur de Corragioni d'Orelli on prisoner of war camps in Essex and Hertfordshire: Saffron Walden, Stanstead and Bishop's Stortford.
• Reports by Monsieur de Corragioni d'Orelli on prisoner of war camps at Cambridge, Buntingford and Boughton Hall.
• German Government complaint regarding restrictions and conditions imposed on prisoners at Lofthouse Park prisoner of war camp near Wakefield in Yorkshire during their transfer to the Isle of Man.
• Reports by Monsieur de Corragioni d'Orelli on prisoner of war camps at Brocton and Bramley.
• British Government response to German Foreign Office note on conditions at Inverlaidnan (Carrbridge) prisoner of war camp.
• Report by Dr A de Sturler and Monsieur R de Sturler on prisoner of war camps: College Town, Camberley, Cove in Hampshire, and Jersey in the Channel Islands.
• Report by Monsieur de Corragioni d'Orelli on Warmsworth Hall prisoner of war camp in Yorkshire.

Note by the German Government urging an inquiry into the sworn statements of two German officers regarding the murder of German soldiers by British soldiers on the Western Front.

Report by Hauptman von Kühlewein on the treatment of German officers while being transferred from Dartford to Skipton prisoner of war camp on 16 August 1918.

German Government complaint, dated 15 November 1918, regarding conditions at prisoner of war camps at Maadi Tura and Sidi Bishr in Egypt.

Note verbale from the German Government concerning the treatment according to rank of a number of prisoners; contains a list of 53 prisoners.

German Government request that, in view of the Armistice, restrictions on prisoners' correspondence be relaxed.

Report of Olav Eduard Pauss, Norwegian Consul for German interests in Sydney, on conditions in prisoner of war camps in Australia: Liverpool, Molonglo and Berrima.

German Government response to report by Dr A de Sturler on conditions at Ripon and Wakefield prisoner of war camps and urging action on the part of the British Government.

Request by German Government that prisoners' correspondence be sent to Germany overland instead of via England and Holland.

Report by Dr A de Sturler and Monsieur R de Sturler on prisoner of war camps at Hollowell Grange and Guilsborough in Northants; Ilston Grange and Thorpe Satchville in Leicestershire.

Report by Monsieur de Corragioni d'Orelli on Redmires prisoner of war camp in Sheffield, Yorkshire.

British assurance to German Government that German prisoners of war captured in the eastern war zone had never been classed as Turkish prisoners.

British War Office statement on the adequacy of conditions at Wakefield and Ripon prisoner of war camps in Yorkshire.

Code 1218 File 206 (to paper 3246).

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