Item FO 383/434 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Internment of German prisoners from the German colonies, including: Request by the...

Germany: Prisoners, including: Internment of German prisoners from the German colonies, including: Request by the General Welfare Committee at Knockaloe Camp that civilian prisoners due to be repatriated should not be temporarily transferred to a military camp. Lieutenant Paul Baer: complaint by the German authorities about the delay in transferring him to Switzerland. Request for interned German troops from the Cameroons and Togo to be placed in military camps. German memorandum alleging that officers and non-commissioned officers captured in the German colonies were being excluded from internment in the Netherlands; British reply refuting the allegations. Combatant status of certain prisoners at Knockaloe Camp. Johannes Rehse, interned at Knockaloe Camp, and Karl Kauss, interned at Lofthouse Park: request for their transfer to the Netherlands. Heinrich Bolle, interned at Knockaloe Camp: decision not to allow his transfer to the Netherlands; subsequent confirmation of his non-combatant status. Correspondence concerning lists of former German colonial troops eligible for transfer to the Netherlands. Lieutenants Kaiser, Hermans and Haeuseler: request for their transfer to the Netherlands. Otto Kallweit: confirmation that he had been moved to a camp for combatant prisoners, and would be transferred to the Netherlands. Heinrich Bauch: confirmation that he had been transferred to a camp for combatant prisoners. List (in docket no. 108819) of German prisoners eligible for transfer to the Netherlands. Johannes Rehse, interned at Knockaloe Camp: enquiry about his transfer to a military camp and removal to the Netherlands. Information on the civilian status of certain German prisoners (names in docket no. 111465). German memoranda enquiring about Sergeant Otto Kallweit and other interned prisoners (names in docket no. 119625) who were eligible for military status. Samoan camps: appointment of Mr J Helg to inspect internment camps in Samoa containing German prisoners; protest by the German authorities about the existence of the camps. Oberleutnant Lothar Marcks, interned at Trial Bay, Australia, including: Letters to the Swiss Consul in Sydney recommending the repatriation of a number of German prisoners (names in docket nos. 9131 and 19465) on health grounds. Sergeant Rudolf Albert Ebelt: information that he was no longer eligible for repatriation on health grounds. Permission for the transmission to Germany of the letters from Oberleutnant Marcks. German prisoners from the former colony of German New Guinea, including: Deportation of former employees of the Pacific Phosphate Company from the island of Nauru. George Taeufert: confirmation that he had been deported from German New Guinea and was interned at Trial Bay, New South Wales. German memorandum notifying the British Government of the detention of six British civilians as a reprisal for the detention of German officials (names in docket no. 67397). Reports on actions leading to the surrender of Nauru and the deportation of German prisoners, with lists (in docket no. 75585) of prisoners who had been deported or interned, a list (in docket no. 75585) of prisoners and passengers on SS Messina , and a list (in docket no. 75585) of German subjects sent from New Guinea to Australia. Statistics relating to Commerce, Native Tax, Population, Live Stock and Agriculture, etc., in connection with the Late German New Guinea Possessions. (Parliamentary Command Paper C.15195). European War. Correspondence respecting Military Operations against German Possessions in the Western Pacific. (Parliamentary Command Paper C.16383). German memorandum protesting about the internment of prisoners on Samoa, and and requesting the return from Australia of German subjects deported from Nauru and New Guinea. Report by the Principal Medical Officer of Samoa on the internment camp at Samoa. German memorandum on German subjects in Nauru and New Guinea, with a copy of the British reply. Mr Karl Hanssen, interned at Motuihi Camp, Auckland, New Zealand: series of letters to the American Consul at Apia, Samoa, on issues relating to his business, the Deutsche Handels

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