Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Transfer of German civilians from East Africa to India,...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Transfer of German civilians from East Africa to India, including:

• Payments by the German Government to prisoners interned at Ahmednagar, India.
• Petition from various German prisoners (names in docket no. 54721) interned in India requesting to be returned to East Africa.
• Request by the German Government for details of interned and uninterned civilians in India and East Africa, with a request for the removal on health grounds of those resident in the districts of Tanga and Dar es Salaam.
• Request by the German Government for the transfer to Europe of German women and children removed from East Africa to India.
• Correspondence regarding the modification of a reciprocal agreement for the repatriation of invalid civilians.
• Enquiries regarding civilians transferred to German South West Africa, with particular reference to Herr Karl Schiller (subsequently identified as Lieutenant Erich Schiller).
• Lists (in docket nos. 97151 and 109002) of German civilians transferred from East Africa to camps at Ahmednagar and Belgaum, India, with printed correspondence relating to individual cases.
• Agreement in principle by the British Government for the transfer to South West Africa of German women and children from East Africa.

Mr Theodor Döpffel, former Acting German Consul at Monrovia, including:

• Internment of Mr Döpffel at Alexandra Palace, and decision not to permit his repatriation.
• Transfer of Mr Döpfell to Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.
• German memorandum stating that Mr Fawcett, Acting British Vice-Consul at Helsingfors, Finland, had been interned in a civilian camp as a reprisal.
• Letter from Mr Döpfell appealing for his release and requesting the return of his passport.
• Decision not to allow the exchange of Mr Döpfell for Mr J Phillips, interned at Holzminden, Germany.

Mr Karl Kaufmann, a repatriated German subject, including:

• Request by the German Government for payments to be made to Mr Kaufmann from the funds of his liquidated business in the UK.
• German memorandum requesting the payment of warehousing costs for Mr Kaufmann's furniture.

Correspondence regarding the internment of German prisoners in Reading Gaol.

Request by the German Government for the repatriation of certain German deaconesses from the Sarepta Community of Westfalian Deaconesses.

Mr Alfred Kulenkanpff, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, including:

• Details of Mr Kulenkampff's assets while resident in the Gold Coast, West Africa.
• Permission for remittances to be sent to Mr Kulenkampff.

Transfer of funds in enemy countries belonging to prisoners interned in the UK, including:

• Complaint from Chief Captain Roderstein and Chief Captain Alfred Ewnardt regarding regulations at Lofthouse Park Camp.
• Letter of complaint from Major Balani, Senior Officer at Colsterdale Camp.
• Statement of British policy on the transfer of funds in enemy countries, and issue of a circular letter to camp commandants.
• German memorandum enquiring about reports that instructions for money transfers were not being transmitted, and threat of reprisals; reply by the British Government.
• Mr Walter Mann, interned at Lofthouse Park: request for permission for money to be transferred to his wife in Germany.
• Request for guidance by the Knockaloe Prisoners' Aid Society, Camp I, on dealing with requests for money transfers.
• Treasury policy on the transfer of funds from Germany.

Accidents sustained by prisoners, including:

• Proposal for a reciprocal agreement between the British and German Governments for the notification of accidents.
• Emil Fork: compensation for injuries sustained at Knockaloe Camp.
• Stanislaus Bayon, interned at Dorchester Camp: report on an accident sustained at the camp.
• Wehrman Ludwig Kanne, interned at Stobs Camp: request by the German authorities for a certificate and details of an accident sustained by him.
• Otto Ruland: report of an accident sustained while working at the port of Le Havre, France.
• German memorandum claiming that the British authorities were no longer issuing certificates of sickness or accident to prisoners; later British reply stating that the information was included in the lists provided to the German Government.
• Reservist Ludwig Brünninger, interned at Handforth Camp, and Kanonier Robert Krüger, interned at Fulham Camp: request by the German authorities for certificates and details of the accidents sustained by them.
• Text (French language) of the agreement between the French and German Governments regarding the provision of information on accidents to prisoners.
• Corporal G McKie: claim for compensation for injuries sustained while working in K47 Coal Mine, Westphalia, Germany.
• Musketeer Johann Grella, interned in Switzerland: request for a certificate of accident.
• Kasimir (or Kesimir) Yoswiak: report of an accident sustained while interned at Holdsworthy Camp, Australia.

Death by misadventure of Kaiserlicher Vizekonsul Neumann, including:

• Request by the German Government for his wife, Mrs Lucie Neumann, resident in London, to be informed.
• Arrangements for payments to Mrs Neumann from her husband's estate.
• Transmission of various documents to Mrs Neumann by the German authorities.

Transfer of German prisoners to Switzerland, including:

• German memorandum protesting about the alleged robbery of German prisoners by British guards, prior to their transfer from England to Switzerland, and about the conditions of their journey.
• Refutation of the charges by various British naval officers supervising the transfer.

Enquiry concerning restrictions placed by the Tongan Government on the movements of German subjects in Tonga.

Mr Otto Rapude: claim for compensation for his internment in Sierra Leone.

Alleged confiscation of certain articles sent in parcels to German prisoners.

Hermann K Raydt, a deceased German subject from Port Said, Egypt: arrangements for the disposal of his estate.

Application by certain prisoners in South Africa to be reinstated as German nationals, including:

• Mr F Muhle, interned at Pietermaritzburg.
• Mr John Behrend, Camp Captain at No. 1 Camp, Pietermaritzburg: covering letter for a list (not included) of civilian prisoners wishing to regain their German nationality.

Code 1218 Files 13684-25620.