NAZI TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS
(8.0.W.) RUGBY, November 19. The German Government’s discharge of its obligations under the Prisoners of War Convention was described by the Secretary for War, Captain David Margesson, in the House of Commons as not having been satisfactory in certain respects. In particular no information had yet been furnished about the rations of German troops and he was not satisfied that British prisoners were receiving the full scale of clothes to which they were entitled. A few cases of overcrowding had been reported and there had been one or two cases of action by the German authorities which appeared to be in contravention of the convention relating to collective punishment. If he got information that the Germans were not carrying out their obligations he at once informed the protecting power in Germany and tried to get the matter rectified.
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Southland Times, Issue 24597, 20 November 1941, Page 5
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143NAZI TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS Southland Times, Issue 24597, 20 November 1941, Page 5
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