TRANSLATION BY THE LONDON DELEGATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS COMMITTEE (Germany)

LAZARET OF HOHENSTEIN-ERNSTAL

(Stalag IV F)

Visited by Doctor Schirmer on the 10th May 1943

Strength  415 prisoner patients of whom 4 are British prisoners who have come from the Military Prison at Graudenz; three among these are suffering from active tuberculosis, and the fourth from tuberculosis in the hip joint. They are rapidly recovering thanks to the contents of the Red Cross parcels.

The housing conditions are not very satisfactory; it often happened, during last winter, that the heating was inadequate.

The doctors are dissatisfied with the food, and it is only thanks to the Red Cross parcels that the patients are able to keep up their strength.

The clothing and hygienic conditions give rise to no special comment. The same applies to working conditions, pay, discipline and correspondence.

Religious services are celebrated regularly and the prisoners have a library and some games available to them.

Considered as a whole, and in spite of the deficiencies mentioned above, it is true to say that the prisoners who are under treatment in this lazaret are well cared for.