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- 1915 (Creation)
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Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners interned and detained by British: enquiries regarding whereabouts and possible release, including: Rev Gottfried Wessel and family, detained at Ahmednagar, India; subsequent departure for Italy. Kurd von Weller, detained at Knockaloe camp. Dr Müller and Dr Werner, German physicians detained in Singapore. Dr Theodor Fressel, detained in North Borneo. Detention of four German clergymen in Australia: Pastor Treuz; Pastor Schafhirt, Pastor Frank, and Pastor Gutekunst. Detention of German missionaries in South Africa: case of Pastor Paul Coerper. Leo Lopinot, detained at Colombo, Ceylon. Hans Erich Benedix, detained in the UK: War Office refusal of application for release. Alleged detention of German doctor in Bermuda. Father Hentrich, detained in South Africa. Treatment of German subjects in the Cameroons: complaints made by Lieutenant Otto Wieneke. Karl Schwarze, Dr Georg (George) Gurich, and Mr Steinman: members of scientific expeditions, interned in South Africa. C Koettgen, formerly director of Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works Ltd of Berlin, now interned in Bromley, Kent. Dr Schultz, German ex-Governor of Samoa, interned as prisoner of war in New Zealand. Detention of German missionaries in South Africa. Fritz Meyer: request for release as member of the Red Cross. Samuel Schwarz, detained in London. Paul Schneider, detained at Pietermaritzburg. Alien enemy missionaries in India. Mr Scheihauer, prisoner of war in Bermuda. Internment of Germans in UK. Enemy subjects in British Solomon Islands and Tonga. Andreas Holst and Erich Helmich, detained in India: protests against capture and detention. Georg Mondorf, interned on HMT Canada. Detention of Germans in Malta: Otto Grosse and Dr Walter Kain. Otto Adams, detained at Hitchin: enquiry from his father, N Adams of Saargemünd. Germans detained in England and the colonies: includes list of names and details (in German). Mr Horst, detained in England: enquiry regarding US citizenship, from James Beck of Shearman
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The National Archives >> Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office >> Records of various First World War Departments >> Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from 1906
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