{"id":26,"date":"2023-10-25T21:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2023-10-31T00:11:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T00:11:51","slug":"maz-zaufania","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/maz-zaufania\/","title":{"rendered":"POWs\u2019 representative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prisoners of war had the right to appoint a representative \u00adom their nationality who was authorised to represent them before the camp authorities. The representative\u2019s main tasks included overseeing the distribution of correspondence and packages sent to prisoners. This<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>function was usually performed by the prisoner of war with the highest rank, or \u2013 as in the case of the British \u2013 by voting within the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until 1941, when Poles were staying in the main camp, the position of the POWs\u2019 representative was probably held by Eryk Matuszek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was an officer, and after the Polish prisoners of war had left Stalag XX B, he himself was transferred to Oflag II C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one of the Red Cross reports, you can find information that in October 1942 the positions of POWs\u2019 representatives in Stalag XX B were held by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Marcel Boutry, camp number 21,409, representing the French group,<br>\u2022 Robert Duchesne, camp number 51,230, representing the Belgian group,<br>\u2022 James Fulton, camp number 14,830, representing the British group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The POWs\u2019 representatives communicated with the guards in German, so they had to either speak German or use an interpreter, as was the case with the British representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Red Cross reports also indicate the presence of POWs\u2019 representatives outside the main camp. The individual Kommandos also chose their representative, who acted as a go-between for them and the camp administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" src=\"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/V-P-HIST-01722-14A-1024x740.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/V-P-HIST-01722-14A-1024x740.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/V-P-HIST-01722-14A-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/V-P-HIST-01722-14A-768x555.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/V-P-HIST-01722-14A-1536x1111.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/V-P-HIST-01722-14A-2048x1481.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">materia\u0142y zamieszczone na stronie na licencji CC BY-SA 3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prisoners of war had the right to appoint a representative \u00adom their nationality who was authorised to represent them before the camp authorities. The representative\u2019s main tasks included overseeing the distribution of correspondence and packages sent to prisoners. This function was usually performed by the prisoner of war with the highest rank, or \u2013 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stalag.malbork.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}