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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 & Plantagen-Gesellschaft, in Apia, Samoa, and the health of a fellow prisoner, Mr Paul Voget.
- Report of an inspection of the internment camp at Apia, Samoa, with a list of German prisoners interned in the camp (in docket no. 111719).
- Arrangements for the transfer of German prisoners from Samoa to New Zealand; question of relief payments.
- Agreement by the Australian Government for the proposed repatriation of certain German colonial officials (names in docket no. 115181), formerly of New Guinea.
- Mr R P Berking, interned at Motuihi, Auckland, New Zealand: copy of a letter requesting permission for himself and thirteen other married interned prisoners (names in docket no. 116454) to return to their homes in Samoa.
- List (in docket no. 10150) of German subjects transferred from Nauru to Australia.
- German memorandum requesting information on an internment camp for German subjects at Rabaul, New Guinea.
- Report of the attempted escape of German prisoners from the internment camp at Apia, Samoa.
Code 1218 Files 9123-10150.
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