Item FO 383/516 - Germany: Prisoners, containing: Agreement between the United States and Germany concerning the treatment accorded prisoners...

Germany: Prisoners, containing: Agreement between the United States and Germany concerning the treatment accorded prisoners of war as signed at Berne, Switzerland on 11 November 1918. Whereabouts of the British Indian prisoners left by the Germans in Romania. Request of a complete list of British Indian prisoners of war in German captivity. Despatch of a list of British Indian prisoners of war transported from Germany to Romania. German request for a list of German prisoners of war captured in the Autumn of 1918 in Turkey (Palestine and Syria). German troops captured on the Palestine front being sent to Ahmednagar and Egypt, not to India. Work of British medical student Rene Dubois for prisoners of war. Whereabouts of Private E Oppy (number 7514) from the Australian Imperial Force. Handcuffing of German civilian prisoner Friederich Quade. Payment of allowances to German prisoners in Egypt. Allegations of ill-treatment of German women and children in German East Africa. Establishment of Danish Red Cross in London. Several requests from the Danish Red Cross to visit German prisoners, send them books and conduct educational work in prisoners of war companies. Exchange of Austrian and German currency at pre-war rate. Rate of exchange for the mark given to French prisoners of war returning from Germany. Sergeant J L Wilkie prisoner in Hameln camp, suspected of theft. Possible repatriation of German monks and nuns from the Natal Mission in Africa. Despatch from South Africa stating that it is not intended to expel any of the German monks and nuns from Natal. Protest from the prisoners of war interned at Camp Park Hall Oswestry against their prolonged internment. Repatriation of prisoners from Alsace and Lorraine interned in British Dominions and in British working camps and hospitals in France. Influenza epidemic in an internment camp at Aus in German South West Africa. Arrival in Rotterdam of members of the German Colonial Troops who were interned at Aus. List of German prisoners of war who died of Spanish Influenza at Aus. Code 1218 Files 2144-2983.

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