POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 86

• June 22, 2017 17:09:08 Annick Rodriguez

  There we [insert] re [/insert] 3 courts martial on English officers whilst I was

  here. One was on chichester Constable for calling a workman

  a swine, for dropping mortar on his head at Torgau. He

  had been asked to pay compensation & refused. Here he got

  about 6 months. He managed to slip away in a party

  going to GOTISLOW, but  I expect German injustice followed

  him up. Another, on a gunner who had been found, in a

  search , in possession of Kuiserlich property; to whit the

  number plate of his door at TORGAU; he got a matter of

  days. The 3rd.., on an officer over a little matter of send-

  ing a letter home by an English Doctor which they

  had unfortunately discovered. His sentence on appeal was

  always increasing.

  By German law you can I think appeal 3 times

  The number seems generally to be raised each time.

  It is not always so, I am given to understand.

  There was a Russian officer sentenced to death- who

  appealed and got about 14 days - the prosicutor then

  appealed & he got slightly more.

  Escaping is not looked upon a a crime- the normal

  punishment being 14 days, but the German looks for

  a side issue. Thus is you are tunneling you use

  wood & they try & bring in theft for which they

  give you 2 yrs. Some russians went under a road

  the crime here was endangering German Communications

  & the first sentence was death; on appeal this was

  seduced to 2 or 3 yrs.

  They produce an interpreter but at least their justice

  is not the same as ours.

  It seems that in escapes -One got a good deal less

  if you succeeded in getting clear of the camp.

  
  

• June 21, 2017 22:50:27 Annick Rodriguez

  There we [insert] re [/insert] 3 courts martial on English officers whilst I was

  here. One was on chichester Constable for calling a workman

  a swine, for dropping mortar on his head at Torgau. He

  had been asked to pay compensation & refused. Here he got

  about 6 months. He managed to slip away in a party

  going to GOTISLOW, but  I expect German injustice followed

  him up. Another, on a gunner who had been found, in a

  search , in possession of Kuiserlich property; to whit the

  number plate of his door at TORGAU; he got a matter of

  days. The 3rd.., on an officer over a little matter of send-

  ing a letter home by an English Doctor which they

  had unfortunately discovered. His sentence on appeal was

  always increasing.

  By German law you an I think appeal

  
  

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• June 21, 2017 20:53:38 Annick Rodriguez

  There we [insert] re [/insert] 3 courts martial on English officers whilst I was

  here. One was on chichester Constable

  
  

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