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Lot 146
Nine real photo cards including view of The Crescent, Taunton; Broad St & West St Corner Reading; East St Harrietsham, The Market, Salisbury; Rev R Squire's Return from Prison 1907 (Passive Resister); The First Man to Receive the Old Age Pension, others, c.1906 - 1910 and a photo card of the Locarno Conference 1925 with "signatures" ++mixed
Lot 232
WWI – Prisoners of War remarkable typewritten document on two pp folio (apparently complete) being transcripts of statements made by allied Prisoners of War held in Germany during WWI , and highlighting atrocities allegedly carried out by German guards in POW Camps : ‘...at least fifteen men die daily in this camp. The Mortuary which I have passed frequently on my way to the Parcels Room is the most horrible thing I have ever seen. The dead were thrown in there anyhow, one on top of the other, absolutely nude and I have seen them piled up four or five deep. A certain number of the corpses have port mortem examinations made on them before burial and I can swear to having seen on several occasions corpses after the severest form of post mortem examination. I estimate the number of deaths which have taken place in this camp since November 1916 at more than two thousand...Private W T Elsworth RMLI...was discharged from the Lazarett as ‘cured’ about February 1918, reported sick again shortly afterwards and Feldwebel Prinz who was Mayor of Heynan Schliesian, refused to let him see the doctor. He sent him out to work shovelling sand in the Lager and he fainted whilst at work. He went into a small Lazarett in the Lager and he died there a week afterwards...’ This document makes specific allegations of atrocities carried out by Germans against allied prisoners of war. The witness statements are assigned to Corporal Roy Feeney, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, Corporal R Lewis, 1st Life Guards and CSM Mears, 1st Bedfordshire Regiment. Private Elsworth, mentioned in this document is registered on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records, and is buried in Berlin – though according to this document he died at Sprottau Camp in Silesia. We have been unable to trace other names mentioned in this document even though it is specifically stated by Mears that they are buried at Sprottau. This document raises disturbing suggestions that the well documented atrocities which were perpetrated by the Nazis during WWII had a precedent in WWI. All references we have been able to trace about the activities of the Germans in running Sprottau Camp during this period suggest that nothing in particular happened there. This document suggests otherwise and there is also the disturbing feeling that this evidence was covered up at the end of WWI. Further research is clearly required.
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