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The Better Germany in War Time

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Accusation, Ease of, 204-5

Achim, 136

Aktion, Die, 231

Alexandra Palace, Internment at, 103

Altdamm, 8

American Civil War, Prisoners in, 123-4

Anderson, Chandler, 79

Annexation—

Delbrück-Dernburg-Wolff Memorial Against, 176;

German Socialist Party Manifesto Against, 175

Assistance Agency, German, for Prisoners, 12, 133-142

Assistance to British Subjects in Germany, 212-21

Atrocities—

and Credulity, 31, 38;

German, 264, 265;

Unfounded Story of, 156

Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle für Deutsche im Ausland und Ausländer in Deutschland, 133-4

Austin, L. J., 33, 37

Austria, a Prisoner in, 26

Avanti, 223

Bad Blenhorst, 48, 57

Baden, Prisoners in, 60, 61

Basler Nachrichten, 66

Bathing Facilities—

in British Camps, 65;

in German Camps, 11, 13, 15, 48, 50

Bath-Chair Woman and English Lady, 213

Batochina, 150-2

Bayreuth, 55

Belgian Relief Commission, Germany’s Attitude to, 177-8

Belgium, German Protests Against Annexation of, 173-177

Bell, Mr. E. P., on the Censorship, 199

Belle-Ile, 43

Beresford, Lord, 29

Berliner Tageblatt, 177, 179

Bernhardi, 234

Bernstein, Ed., 231

Berry, Dr. F. M. Dickinson, 72

Bibby, Private A., 193

Birt, Capt. W. B., 146

Bischofswerda, 45-6, 49

Bishop of Winchester, 12, 132-3

Björnson, Björn, 171

Blankenberg-i-Mark, 51

Blankenburg, 19, 52

Blue Book on Prisoners in Germany, 24

Boer War—

Concentration Camps, 126-131;

Prisoners in, 125

Bogen, Col., 11

Borchardt, Julian, 235

Bouvigny, 38

Boxing in Prison Camps, 51

Brandenburg, 56

British Subjects in Germany, Kindness to, 212-21

Brunner, Mond & Co., 246

Bryan, Mr., 6

Buchan, John, 157

Bulgaria, British Prisoners in, 73

Burg, 34-37

Burg-bei-Magdeburg, 10

Bury, Bishop, 28, 102-3, 107-8

Butler, Lt.-Gen. Sir W., quoted, 200, 201

Cambridge Magazine, 30, 73, 124, 228

Carpenter, Edward, 183

Cassabianda, 44

Catering, Self-management in, 22

Celle, 57

Censor Fined by Prisoner, 35

Censorship, E. P. Bell on the, 199

Cetinje, Starvation in, 160

Chemical Society, British, 229;

German, 229

Chemistry, Germany and, 245ff

Child in No-Man’s-Land, 159

Children in Russia, 159

Children Taken Home from Occupied Territory, 135, 158

Christliche Welt, 173

Christmas Truces, 180-2, 183-6

Cimino, Dr., 84, 104

Civilian Hate, 163-4

Civilians, Resident Enemy, Treatment of, 75

Clacton Graphic, 165

Clausthal, 49

Clothes, British Prisoners and, 23

Cohen, Israel, 79, 104

Colenso, Miss, 4

Cologne—

Hospitals at, 12;

Military Prison at, 54

Commandants, Good German, 56

Common Cause, 66

Common Sense, 111, 193

Compiègne, Palais de, 205-7

Complaints by Prisoners, 73

Concentration Camps, Boer War, 126-31

Contracts, Germany and, 177-8

Corey, Mr. Herbert, and the Times, 198

Correspondence, Complaints about, 6-8

Cottbus, 57

Coulston, Capt., 52

Credulity and Atrocities, 31, 38

Crefeld, 2, 13, 55, 65

Cüstrin, 49

Cyon, Madame F. L., 153-7, 255ff

Daily Chronicle, 83, 163, 168, 188, 189, 198, 202

Daily Citizen, 183

Daily Mail, 6, 196

Daily News, 4, 7, 26, 28, 45, 59, 60, 61, 68, 71, 107, 119, 120, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164, 168, 169, 177, 178, 179, 185, 187, 190, 191, 199, 224, 225, 226, 251, 252

Daily Telegraph, 96, 105, 122, 223, 224, 244

Damm, Mr., 8

Dartford Prisoners of War Hospital, 64

Dawson, W. H., 248

Dehmel, 229

Delbrück-Dernburg-Wolff Memorial, 176

Dernburg, Dr., 176-7

Desmond, G. G., 61

Deussen, Prof., Against Hate, 228-9

Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 73

Deutsche Tageszeitung, 168

Dickinson, Lowes, 232

Döberitz, 5, 9, 25, 30, 135

Dobson, Austin, quoted, 196-7

Dogs in German Prison Camps, 33, 39

Donington Hall and Luxury, 64

Dorchester Camp, 9, 64

Doty, Madeline, 235

Douglas, 25

Dresel, Mr., 33, 110

Drill, Dr., 167

Dülmen, 61, 62

Dyffry Camp, 9

Dyffryn Aled Camp, 64

Dyrötz, 52

East Africa, German Women Prisoners from, 69

Elswick, 7

Emden, 202, 205

England, Military Prisoners in, 63ff

English Girl’s Adventures in Hostile Germany, 212-14

Englishman, Kamerad, 8

Erfurt, 22

Erzberger, 73

Escape, Attempts to, 48

Ethical Movement, 232, 234

Ethics of War, 161-2

Eugster, Nat. Councillor A., 40-2, 45, 67

Evolution of Modern Germany, 248

Ey-Steinecke, Gen. von, 56

Families of Germans in England, 143-4

Far Out, 201

Farm Work—

Prisoners in Germany and, 21;

German Prisoners and, 68, 69

Food—

at Ruhleben, 90, 91, 101-2, 104;

During Transport of Prisoners, 46;

German Prisoners and, 30, 69-70;

In Boer War Concentration Camps, 131;

In English Camps, 9, 27, 117;

In French Camps, 43, 44;

In German Camps, 3, 5, 10, 14, 15, 18, 20, 23, 27-31, 34, 40, 50, 51;

Problem in Germany, 99

Fougères, 44

Foerster, Prof. W., 134

Förster, Dr. F. W., 232

Fort Friedrichshafen, 50

Forum, Das, 231, 232

Franco-German War, Prisoners in, 124

Frankfort, Freedom of English in, 83

Frankfurt-am-Oder, 137, 218

Frankfurter Zeitung, 166, 169, 170, 177, 178

Frankland, Prof., 245

Frentz, Gen. Raitz von, 56

Friedberg, 23, 48, 65

Friedrichsfeld, 46

Friend, The, 132, 138

Friends’ Emergency Committee, 87, 132, 137-144, 158

“Frightfulness” Condemned by German Newspapers, 178

Frongoch, 145

Funeral of an English Officer in Germany, 146-8

Gardelegen, 15

Gardens, Prisoners’, 23, 49

Gardiner, A. G., 226

Gerard, Mr., 23, 25, 45, 47, 50, 53, 81, 82, 93, 97-8, 100, 102, 104

German—

Feeling Towards England, 165;

Heroism at the Front, 161-2;

Newspaper Comments, 166ff;

Officers, Professional, 263-4;

Officers and Privates, Familiarity Between, 38;

Soldier, British Opinions of the, 201-3;

Soldiers, French Women and, 208;

School-books and the War, 171-3;

Tribute to Pégoud, 224;

Troops in Occupation, 205ff

Germany—

and Commerce, 244;

Conditions of Labour in, 248;

In Peace Time, 241ff

Germersheim Hospitals, 55

George, Lieut., 36

Gibbs, Philip, 163, 182, 183, 188, 189, 197, 202, 208

Giessen, 48, 53, 150

Gilliland, Lieut., 73

Glasgow Herald, 249

Glass Apparatus, Germany and, 250

Gmelin, Prof., 53

“God Punish England,” 166, 169, 171

Gomperz, Prof. H., 227

Görlitz, 49

“Gott Strafe England,” 166, 169, 171

Göttingen, 11, 27, 53, 67, 144

Graaf, Excellenz de, and English Civilians, 82

Grey, Sir Edward, 8, 24, 50, 77, 78, 80, 92, 97

Güstrow i/Mecklenburg, 16, 52, 53, 57

Haase, Herr, on Belgian Neutrality, 174

Hakenmoor, 51

Hale, Chandler, 25

Hall: International Law, 76

Halle a/d Saale, 10

Halle, 49

Hamilton, Sir Ian, 7

Harnack, Prof., 177

Harris, H. W., 82

Harte, A. C., 11

Harvey, Lieut.-Observer J. E. P., 3

Hate—

Civilian, 163-4;

Hymn of, 231;

Prof. Deussen Condemns, 228;

Prof. Gomperz Condemns, 227

Hauptmann, Gerhart, 229

Havelberg, 110

Hay, the Hon. Ivan, 36

Headley, Lord, 249

Healing of Nations, 183

Hedin, Sven, 171

Herald, 109

Heroism of German Prisoners, 119

Herzog, Wilhelm, 232

Hesse, Hermann, 230

Hibbert Journal, 180, 232

Hilfe, Die, 222

Hobhouse, Miss Emily, 127-31

Holderness, 26

Holyport Camp, 9, 64

Holzminden, 135

Hoover, Herbert, 177

Hope, James, 71

Horrors of War, 163

Hospital at Lille, 156-7, 258ff

Hospital Treatment, Prisoners in Germany, 12, 18, 20, 21, 23, 47, 48, 55, 57-58

“Hymn of Hate,” 231

In the Hands of the Enemy, 31

Indian Prisoners at Wünsdorf, 55

Indian Prisoners, Wounded, 13

International Red Cross—see under Red Cross

International Review, 210, 220, 222, 228, 240

Internment Camps, Neutral, 121

Internment—

Effects of, 6, 83-7, 110, 114, 120;

Origin of, 76ff

Is it to be Hate? 203, 205, 244

Isighem, 47

Isle of Man, 9

Jackson, Mr., 9, 10, 16, 19, 25, 27, 29, 49, 51, 52, 56, 57

Jealousy, English, of Germany, 252

Jens, Fräulein, 136

Johnson, Capt. Benjamin, 13

Journalists Condemned, 232, 238

Kaiser, 207

Kerensky, 225

Kindness, Order Against, 196

Kirchhoff, Frau, 136

Klein, Albert, 238

Klein, L’Abbé Félix, 194

Kluck, General von, 203, 206-7

Knockaloe Camp, 114-17;

Accommodation at, Compared with Ruhleben, 115-16;

Prisoners’ Aid Society, 136-7

Kolb, Annette, 232

Kölnische Zeitung, 148, 167, 168, 171, 178, 226

Königsbrück, 49

Kothe, Oberst, 56

La Guerre vue d’une Ambulance, 194, 196

Labour Leader, 117, 175, 186, 189, 198, 235, 249

L’Action Française, 211

Landrecies, 31

Langen Halbach b/Haiger, 54

Laurie, Principal, 250

Leonhard, Rudolf, 229

Letters, German Soldiers’, 237ff

Lichnowsky, Prince, 12, 133

Lichtstrahlen, 235

Liebknecht, 236

Lille, 153-7, 255ff;

Hospital at, 156-7, 258ff

Limbau, 57

Limburg, 21

Lissauer, 231

Literature, German War, 228-34

Littlefair, Mary, 165, 212-14

Lloyd George, Mr., on the Two Germanies, 252

Lloyd’s News, 192

Lokalanzeiger, 170

Lorient, 43

Ludendorff, 168

Lusitania, Sinking of, 178-9

Luxembourg, Rosa, 235, 236

Macnaughten, Miss, 203-204

Maffe, 37

Magdeburg, 10, 33, 46

Mainz, 20, 36

Malcolm, Ian, 6

Manchester Guardian, 26, 74, 106, 149, 190

Mann, Thomas, 232

Marck, Ludwig, 230

Markel, Dr. K. E., 144

Martin-Rade, Prof., 173

Marval, Dr. de, 41, 45

Marwitz, von, 206-7

Mather, Sir William, 244

Maubeuge, 154, 255, 264

Maude, Col. F. N., on the Prussian Army, 209

Mehring, Frank, 235

Merseberg, 23

Merseburg, 4, 51

Michelson, Mr., 12, 46

Minot, Mr., 93-5

Mond, Ludwig, 246

Monotony of Camp Life, 6—

See also under Internment, Effects of

Morgan, Mr., American Consul at Hamburg, 47

Morning Post, 29

Mourey, Gabriel, 205-7

MS. Returned, 37

Müller, Capt. von, 202, 205

Münden, 23

Munich, 3

Münster, 17, 28, 56

My Experiences as Prisoner in Germany, 33, 37

Motor-cycles, German Privates Ride Officers’, 38

Namur, 37

Napier, Col., 26

Napoleonic Wars, Prisoners in, 123

Nation, 72, 167, 169, 173, 207, 221, 225, 235

Neubrandenburg, 48

New College, Oxford, 225

News of the World, 4

Newspaper—

Advertisements in Vienna, 222;

Comments, German, 166ff;

Reports, Inaccurate, 53-4, 82

Newton, Lord, on Prisoners in Germany, 26, 28, 105

Nies, Archdeacon W. E., 55

Nobbs, Capt. Gilbert, 7, 8

Nurses, French, 260-1

Observer, 107

Occupation, German Troops in, 205ff

Officers—

German, and Privates, Familiarity Between, 38;

German, at Lille Hospital, 263-4

Ohnesorg, Dr., 12, 15, 18, 20, 33, 47, 48

Ohrdruf, 22

O’Rorke, Chaplain Benjamin, 31-37, 165

Orchies, Burning of, 257

Osborne, Lithgow, 1, 10, 19, 25, 50, 53

O’Sullivan, Private, 1

Ozendaal, 39

Packages, Complaints About, 6-8, 43, 50, 67, 96

Paderborn, Lazarets, 47

Padwick, Mr. H., 68

Page, Mr., 9, 11, 24, 77, 78, 81, 92, 97

Paillet, Léon, 11

Panzera, Col. F. N., 116

Parchim, 56

Paris, Enemy Nationals in, in 1870, 76-7

Pearce, Second-Lieut. F. Phillips, 2

Pégoud, German Tribute to, 224

Petre, Miss, 251

Portsmouth Camp, 9

Postman’s Help to English Lady, 212

Prince Heinrich of Reuss, 38

Princess Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, 52

Prison, Military, at Cologne, 54

Prisoner in Austria, A, 26

Prisoner’s Life, Monotony of the, 6

(See also under Internment, Effects of)

Prisoners—

British, Alleged Bad Treatment of, 16, 24, 53, 60;

British, and Clothes, 23;

Civilian and Military, Compared, 83-7;

False Statements by, 66;

Food During Transport of, 46;

Friction Between, 5-6, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 52;

German Army and, 190;

German, Heroism of, 118-19;

German Populace and, 32, 36;

Harsh Treatment of, During Transport, in France, 43;

Harsh Treatment of, During Transport, in Germany, 16, 45-6;

in American Civil War, 123-4;

in Boer War, 125;

in France, 43-5;

in Franco-German War, 124;

in Germany, Lord Newton on, 26, 28, 105;

in Germany, Officers’ Rooms, 23;

in Hospital, Germany, 12, 18, 20, 21, 23, 47, 48, 55, 57-8;

in Napoleonic Wars, 123;

in Russo-Japanese War, 125;

in Russia, 125;

Indian, at Wünsdorf, 53;

Indian, Wounded, 13;

Military, in Germany: General Conclusions, 62;

on Farm Work, 21, 68, 69;

“Reprisal,” 36, 71;

Tact in Treatment of, 42

Queensferry Camp, 9

Railway Trucks and Interned Prisoners, 118

Rastatt, 60

Reciprocity in Good Treatment, 47

Red Cross, International—

and English Prison Camps, 9;

Committee of the, 71;

Reports of the, 39-45

Release of Civilian Prisoners, Appeals for, 111ff

Repatriations—

of Civilian Prisoners, 109;

of Prisoners of War, 58ff

“Reprisal Prisoners,” 36, 71

“Reprisals of Good,” 24, 105, 132ff

Reuss, Prince Heinrich of, 38

Rolland, Romain, 229, 240

Rotten, Dr. Elizabeth, 65, 85, 134, 138-40, 144, 158, 195

Roubaix, 258

Ruhleben, 84, 133, 135;

Reports on, 87ff

Ruhleben, Accommodation at, 102;

Accommodation at, Compared with Knockaloe, 115-16;

Camp Committee, 99-100;

Leave of Absence from, 140;

Mr. Jackson on, 86;

Overcrowding at, 102-3;

Prisoners’ Activities at, 106-7;

Relatives’ Visits to Men at, 139

Ruhleben, My Visit to, 102, 107-8

Ruhleben Prison Camp, The, 79, 104

Rumours, 66, 156, 157;

Sir E. Grey on, 9, 24

Russell, Mr., 51

Russia, Prisoners in, 73

Russo-Japanese War, Prisoners in, 125

Sackville, Lady Margaret, quoted, 197

Salzwedel, 15

Scarlett-Synge, Dr. Ella, 50, 149-153, 209

Scheuen, near Celle, 17

Schloss Celle, 49

School-books, German, and the War, 171-3

Schopenhauer Society, 228-9

Schulze, Dr. Siegmund, 85-7, 103, 133, 144, 234

Schwantje, Magnus, 228

Schwerin, Graf, 95, 98, 104

Scotswood, 7

Senne, 19, 29, 41

Serbia—

Austro-German Conduct in, 150-3;

Austro-German Prisoners in, 72

Serbian Prisoners and German Assistance Agency, 137

Shakespeare, Germany and, 242, 250

Sheffield Telegraph, 183

Soltau, 17

Sombart, Prof., 166-7

Soul of the War, 182, 208

Southend Camp, 9

Spaight, Dr. J. M., 75-6, 123, 125-6

Spandau, 52

Spectroscope Story, 140-2

St. Quentin, Germans at, 208

Staatsbürgerin, 195

Stange, Prof., 11, 12, 27, 30, 53, 144

Stargard, 8

Steen, M. T. E., on German Prison Camps, 62

Stendal, 50

Stettin, 68

Stobs Camp, 65

Stobsiad, 65

Stücklen, Herr, 30

Sunday Times, 170

Swiss and Red Cross, 39

Sydney, 202, 205

Sympathetic Ink, 66

Taylor, Dr. A. E., 56, 101-2

Taube, Baron von, 88ff, 98

Tennant, Mr., 67

Tennis-court, Officer Prisoners’, 48

Times, 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, 53, 64, 96, 132, 158, 161, 166, 178, 198, 201, 205, 216, 217, 218

Times Literary Supplement, 207

Torgau, 23, 24, 32, 33

Treatment of Prisoners—See under Prisoners.

Tourcoing, 258

Turkey, Prisoners in, 71

Uhlans, 37, 206, 209

Unruh, Fritz von, 229

Vermin in Camps, 41, 43

Vienna Newspapers, Advertisements in, 222

Visits Outside Camp, 35, 52, 55, 57, 105, 142

Vitré, 43

Volksstimme, 210, 222

Vorwärts, 159, 175, 179, 186, 222

Vossische Zeitung, 237

Wahn, 18

War and the World’s Life, 209

Warmington, Mrs. K., 214

Webster, J. P., 56

Weissen Blätter, 231

Wells, H. G., 252

Werfel, Franz, 230

Wesel, Lazarets, 48

Westminster Gazette, 158

Wilson, Capt. A. Stanley, 26

Winchester, Bishop of, 12, 132-3

Wittenberg, 1, 50, 62, 129

Wolff, Theodore, 176-7

Woman’s Dreadnought, 117

Women, French, and German Soldiers, 208

Working Camps, 48, 51

Wounded—

Brotherhood Among, 182-3;

German, at Orchies, 257;

German, at Lille Hospital, 262-3;

German, Killed, 258;

Treatment of, by Germans, 187-195, 211

Wünsdorf, 55

Y.M.C.A. at Göttingen Camp, 11

Ypres, The Irish Nuns at, 207

Zetkin, Clara, 235

Zimmermann, Herr E., 170

Zossen, 23, 41, 66

Züder Zollhaus, 18

Zwickau, 49

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Transriber’s Note: The table below lists all corrections applied to the original text.

p. vii: par L’Abbé Felix Klein → Félix

p. 2: lights out at 10-45 → 10.45

p. 9: [normalized] visited camps at Hollyport → Holyport

p. 14: [removed extra comma] insufficient, light → insufficient light

p. 16: [added opening quotes] “Clothing is furnished when required

p. 26: his intercourse wth the German delegates → with

p. 40: [added closing quotes] cereals is impossible.”

p. 44: [normalized] Of Casabianda → Cassabianda

p. 53: the occurence mentioned → occurrence

p. 58: it seems very probable that → It

p. 74: most trivial beaches of discipline → breaches

p. 95: contsantly progressing → constantly

p. 100: recreation and asembling room → assembling

p. 107: [added closing quotes] skits on the camp, etc.”

p. 112: [added closing brace] (Editor of the Journal de Genève)

p. 112: official negotiaions → negotiations

p. 121: Even in neutral interment camps → internment

p. 128: [added period] by no means supports these charges.

p. 139: so well satified → satisfied

p. 144: No interment camp → internment

p. 154: delapidated and without fire → dilapidated

p. 155: sme of them were so impertinent → some

p. 157: [added closing quotes] thanking me for my care.”

p. 159: grande loterie de Noel → Noël

p. 160: troops entered Centinje → Cetinje

p. 163: [added closing quote] go forward with our hands up.’

p. 161: [added comma] from the Daily News, May 17

p. 167: herioc bravery→ heroic

p. 170: bullets in safe reatreat → retreat

p. 170: This is a singuarly fair → singularly

p. 194: par L’Abée Félix Klein → L’Abbé

p. 198: [added period] to conceal them ever since.

p. 205: [added opening quotes] “On the whole it cannot be said

p. 207: imagination this aid-de-camp → aide-de-camp

p. 207: [added opening quotes] reviewer in the Nation, “that Herr Major

p. 232: Deutschlands Jugend und der Weltkreig → Weltkrieg

p. 255: Francoise Lafitte Cyon → Françoise

p. 269: Güstrow î-Mecklenburg → Güstrow i/Mecklenburg

p. 269: Klein, L’Abée Félix → L’Abbé

p. 271: Tourcoing, 258 → Tourcoing

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