Allied POW Liberations Before 11 April 1945

Thanks Steve. Out of interest, do they send the response by email or by post?

 

Hi,

You get a package of documents through the post - sent to U.K. ICRC offices “internally” and then posted out from IIRC with east London (Essex?) postmark.

Steve

 

Ahhh...that probably explains the delay. I live in the States so it will take longer to reach me.

 

I expect they’ll send the material from ICRC in Switzerland to the ICRC main office in USA for onward posting to you from there?

Steve

 

Hi Steve,

The response from the ICRC did eventually arrive by post as you indicated. Sadly it contained no additional information to what was available on his POW index card. It was still worth the try, though.

Thank you for all the advice and pointers regarding the ICRC process. It was very much appreciated.

Kind regards,
Mark

 

You’re welcome Mark.

In recent months U.K. National Archives have started a digitisation process to make the whole of the German POW records, that were seized in 1945, available online. Thus far only the POW Index Card had been available if an application was made under the U.K. Freedom of Information Act.

TNA started cataloguing records of POW’s in Germany

It may be worth looking into whether any seized Geman POW records for USA personnel were removed to the United States National Archives in 1945.

Steve