Records, 1914-1937.

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Records, 1914-1937.

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Military orders and camp regulations, captains' minutes, records relating to barracks and camp organization and to the camp's civil government, clubs, and societies, posters and notices, memorabilia, photos, and other records and papers, relating to a German World War I internment camp for British male civilians at Ruhleben, near Berlin.

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Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Ruhleben (Concentration camp)

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Ruhleben B.C.I. Camp was established after outbreak of WWI on site of racetrack outside Berlin and was in operation until Armistice Day. Largest number of civilians interned at its peak was 4,500. Included some French and Italians, no females. Internees established their own camp organization, mail service, sports clubs, cultural, educational programs, hygienic measures. Best study: Ruhleben: A Prison Camp Society, by Davidson Ketchum (1965). From the description of Records, 1914-193...

Masterman, J. C. 1891-

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Ettinghausen, Maurice L. (Maurice Léon)

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Ruhleben Gefangenenlager (British Civilian Internment Camp) was established after the outbreak of the First World War at a racetrack in Spandau, a suburb of Berlin, and remained in operation until Armistice Day, 1918. At its peak, the camp held some 4,500 male civilians of military age who had been living or traveling in Germany when war was declared. Prisoners were housed in stalls originally intended for racehorses. Most internees were British, but there were also other nationalit...