POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 97

• June 22, 2017 18:17:34 Annick Rodriguez

                                                                                                  48.

                                          Clausthal

  Clausthal prison camp is situated right in the country about

  a mile out of the town. In the very heart of what Badeker

  would call the beautiful Hartz scenery. Chausthal itself is a 

  good rise from the plan ...  Certainly the surroundings are

  beautiful & certainly truely the air is good & healthy. I felt the

  difference at once. The building itself was a Kurhouse or

  Hotel, built mostly of wood. It was naturally overcrowded

  All the best rooms in the place had been taken by the

  Belgians, who were specially favoured being mostly put to-

  gether. They fell from grace in the autumn of 1916, but

  up to then, Belgian subalterns had the most favoured rooms.

  We were on arrival told off to  ...  I was put into a

  room with 3 Russians , the next day however there was a

  new distribution & I was put into the next room with a 

  Belgrian, a French and a Russian. This was a small

  single room at the top of the house. It was frightfully

  crowded but fortunately had an open verandah where we

  placed the washing- stand. At this period there were no

  baths in the house; these were not put in for about

  6 months. We could get a bath each week by being

  marched in parties to the WILHELM mine & here on the

  payment of 30 Pfs for shower or 49 for a long bath we

  could wash. There were but 2 long baths which the seniors

  took as a rule. We now could see how the German Gov-

  -ernment took care if its work people. The showers were

  much superior to any we had come across in the

  various camps. Each shower being in a separate cubicle

  The German workman when we arrive , changes his

  clothes which he hangs up dr on a wire, draws this

  
  

• June 22, 2017 18:14:30 Annick Rodriguez

                                                                                                  48.

                                          Clausthal

  Clausthal prison camp is situated right in the country about

  a mile out of the town. In the very heart of what Badeker

  would call the beautiful Hartz scenery. Chausthal itself is a 

  good rise from the plan ...  Certainly the surroundings are

  beautiful & certainly truely the air is good & healthy. I felt the

  difference at once. The building itself was a Kurhouse or

  Hotel, built mostly of wood. It was naturally overcrowded

  All the best rooms in the place had been taken by the

  Belgians, who were specially favoured being mostly put to-

  gether. They fell from grace in the autumn of 1916, but

  up to then, Belgian subalterns had the most favoured rooms.

  We were on arrival told off to  ...  I was put into a

  room with 3 Russians , the next day however there was a

  new distribution & I was put into the next room with a 

  Belgrian, a French and a Russian. This was a small

  single room at the top of the house. It was frightfully

  crowded but fortunately had an open verandah where we

  placed the washing- stand. At this period there were no

  baths in the house; these were not put in for about

  6 months. We could get a bath each week by being

  marched in parties to the WILHELM mine & here on the

  payment of 30 Pfs for shower or 49 for a long bath we

  could wash. There were but 2 long baths which the seniors

  took as a rule. We now could see how the German Gov-

  -ernment took care if its work people. The showers were

  much superior to any we had come across in the

  various camps. Each shower being in a separate cubicle

  The German workman when we arrive , changes his

  clothes which he hangs up 

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• June 22, 2017 17:42:52 Annick Rodriguez

                                                                                                  48.

                                          Clausthal

  Clausthal prison camp is situated right in the country about

  a mile out of the town. In the very heart of what Badeker

  would call the beautiful Hartz scenery. Chausthal itself is a 

  good rise from the plan ...  Certainly the surroundings are

  beautiful & certainly truely the air is good & healthy. I felt the

  difference at once. The building itself was a Kurhouse or

  Hotel, built mostly of wood. It was naturally overcrowded

  All the best rooms in the place had been taken by the

  Belgians, who were specially favoured being mostly put to-

  gether. They fell from grace in the autumn of 1916, but

  up to then, Belgian subalterns had the most favoured rooms.

  We were on arrival told off to  ...  I was put into a

  room with 3 Russians , the next day however there was a

  
  

  
  

  
  

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