Soltau PoW Hospital - Death records

[charlie2]

There is a new searchable database on the GenWiki site of the deaths at Soltau PoW Hospital. The database includes British/Imperial personnel but records the deaths from all nationalities. It works in the same way as the German casualty lists. A search using the term „English“ only produces 8 results but it could be worth searching by name if they are known to have died there. As is to be expected the records are hand written in German. 
https://wiki.genealogy.net/Soltau/Totenbuch-Kriegsgefangenen-Lazarett

 

Charlie

[johntaylor]

This is a fascinating resource - I see they've colour coded the names with Englishmen underlined in yellow. However this seems to be a fairly broad definition, as in one case a Canadian is listed as English. From browsing through, there seem to be very few English names and the vast majority of those who died were French, Belgian or Russian.

Thanks again for pointing this out,

John

Edited 19 July , 2022 by johntaylor

[AOK4]

36 minutes ago, johntaylor said:

This is a fascinating resource - I see they've colour coded the names with Englishmen underlined in yellow. However this seems to be a fairly broad definition, as in one case a Canadian is listed as English. From browsing through, there seem to be very few English names and the vast majority of those who died were French, Belgian or Russian.

Thanks again for pointing this out,

John

This has been said often before: for the Germans "englisch" means anything from the UK and Commonwealth.

Jan