POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 174
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put in. All this was in no way done for the benefit of the
prisoners. The front garden for instance was only used for exercising
prisoners, that is officers sentenced to varrious terms of imprisonment.
And this only for a short time. The Germans soon found it was
simpler to turn every out of the tennis court field & exercise
their prisoners there. Undoubtedly the place was having much
spent on it for some ulterior motive. I should say that
not only we but also the German Imperial Government were
being exploited.
At Clausthal there were varrious methods of getting English
papers into the Camp. On which succeeded for a long time
was a parcel containing a rotten cabbage underneath
this was a copy of the Times. The cabbage was passed
over without a question- but in the end it was discovered.
Chocolates too came in useful as these were passed over
without much search.
Once it was essential to get a parcel through without
search. It was managed thus. The person whose
parcel it was had only one [insert] packet [/insert] and he did not go near
the place. Three confederates were necessary . One was
the Belgian officer who used to assist the Germans in
the distribution of parcels - his job was simply to hide
this particular parcel behind the radiator. It had to
be cunningly hidden for the Germans cleaned the place
afterwards. The others had a rather more complicated
role to play. No. 1 went up to draw his parcel in the
ordinary way. A book is kept in which each parcel
is entered it is signed for by the officer who then paid
his 10pp or whatever it might be. At the table sat
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87.
put in. All this was in no way done for the benefit of the
prisoners. The front garden for instance was only used for exercising
prisoners, that is officers sentenced to varrious terms of imprisonment.
And this only for a short time. The Germans soon found it was
simpler to turn every out of the tennis court field & exercise
their prisoners there. Undoubtedly the place was having much
spent on it for some ulterior motive. I should say that
not only we but also the German Imperial Government were
being exploited.
At Clausthal there were varrious methods of getting English
papers into the Camp. On which succeeded for a long time
was a parcel containing a rotten cabbage underneath
this was a copy of the Times. The cabbage was passed
over without a question- but in the end it was discovered.
Chocolates too came in useful as these were passed over
without much search.
Once it was essential to get a parcel through without
search. It was managed thus. The person whose
parcel it was had only one [insert] packet [/insert] and he did not go near
the place. Three confederates were necessary . One was
the Belgian officer who used to assist the Germans in
the distribution of parcels - his job was simply to hide
this particular parcel behind the radiator. It had to
be cunningly hidden for the Germans cleaned the place
afterwards. The others had a rather more complicated
role to play. No. 1 went up to draw his parcel in the
ordinary way. A book is kept in which each parcel
is entered it is signed for by the officer who then paid
his 10pp or whatever it might be. At the table sat
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87.
put in. All this was in no way done for the benefit of the
prisoners. The front garden for instance was only used for exercising
prisoners, that is officers sentenced to varrious terms of imprisonment.
And this only for a short time. The Germans soon found it was
simpler to turn every out of the tennis court field & exercise
their prisoners there. Undoubtedly the place was having much
spent on it for some ulterior motive. I should say that
not only we but also the German Imperial Government were
being exploited.
At Clausthal there were varrious methods of getting English
papers into the Camp. On which succeeded for a long time
was a parcel containing a rotten c
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87.
put in. All this was in no way done for the benefit of the
prisoners. The front garden for instance was only used for exercising
prisoners, that is officers sentenced to varrious terms of imprisonment.
And this only for a short time. The Germans soon found it was
simpler to turn every out of the tennis court field & exercise
their prisoners there. Undoubtedly the place was
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