{"id":335,"date":"2014-09-03T15:35:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/?p=335"},"modified":"2014-11-27T14:11:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T14:11:38","slug":"der-nacht-hat-man-uns-noch-30-gefangene-serben-gebracht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/09\/03\/der-nacht-hat-man-uns-noch-30-gefangene-serben-gebracht\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In der Nacht hat man uns noch 30 gefangene Serben gebracht&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cba.fro.at\/268377\/embed?&#038;title=false&#038;socialmedia=true&#038;subscribe=true&#038;series_link=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"250\" style=\"border:none; width:100%; height:250;\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>Stimmen aus den Schutzengr\u00e4ben #9 is dedicated to prisoners of war. More than <strong>7 million soldiers<\/strong> were held prisoners during WWI. Many civilians were imprisoned as well, to be kept as hostages. The treatment of captive soldiers was disciplined by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907\">Hague Conventions<\/a><\/strong> of 1899 and 1907 (see episode <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/07\/29\/204\/\">#5<\/a>). Here follows a selection of interesting articles:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prisoners of war are in the power of the hostile Government, but not in that of the individuals or corps who captured them. <strong>They must be humanely treated<\/strong>. All their personal belongings, except arms, horses, and military papers remain their property.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrc.org\/applic\/ihl\/ihl.nsf\/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=03075F79C5B74085C12563CD0051662E\">Art. 4<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Government into whose hands prisoners of war have fallen is bound to maintain them. Failing a special agreement between the belligerents, prisoners of war shall be <strong>treated<\/strong> as regards food, quarters, and clothing, on the same footing<strong> as the troops of the Government which has captured them<\/strong>.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrc.org\/applic\/ihl\/ihl.nsf\/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=28EA81D4C7451964C12563CD005165C7\">Art. 7<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Work done for the State shall be <strong>paid<\/strong> for according to the tariffs in force for soldiers of the national army employed on similar tasks. &#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrc.org\/applic\/ihl\/ihl.nsf\/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=FC793177CA9A6F37C12563CD00516650\">Art. 6<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers taken prisoners may receive, if necessary, the <strong>full pay<\/strong> allowed them in this position by their country&#8217;s regulations, the amount to be repaid by their Government.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrc.org\/applic\/ihl\/ihl.nsf\/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=7D250D8AF0B5958BC12563CD00516718\">Art. 17<\/a>)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-346\" style=\"width: 3234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/09\/austriaci-prigionieri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-346\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/09\/austriaci-prigionieri.jpg\" alt=\"Austro-hungarian prisoners in Russia, 1915. Rare colour picture taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (Wikipedia)\" width=\"3234\" height=\"2792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/09\/austriaci-prigionieri.jpg 3234w, https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/09\/austriaci-prigionieri-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/09\/austriaci-prigionieri-1024x884.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3234px) 100vw, 3234px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austro-hungarian prisoners in Russia, 1915. Rare colour picture taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The turn of events, however, prevented often from applying the Convention, especially in the Central Empires where the <strong>food was scarce and mostly sent to the frontline<\/strong>. The death rate among prisoners could vary a lot. The hardest conditions were suffered from the prisoners held in Russia, of which <strong>25% died of sickness<\/strong>, starving, cold and fatigue. In Germany, despite the food shortage, <strong>the fatalities amounted to 5%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The first &#8220;guest&#8221; of the week is <strong>Carl Schmidt<\/strong> (see episode <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/08\/25\/unsere-eigene-artillerie-unseren-graben-gefunkt\/\">#8<\/a>). His letter, written on the 28 October 1915, is not always clear. It is sure that, in the night between the 27th and the 28th, 30 <strong>Serbian prisoners<\/strong> were brought to him while he was sleeping in a pigsty. He affirms that he massed all the Serbians &#8220;one on top of each other&#8221; in a <strong>pigsty<\/strong> where normally 4 German soldiers would barely fit. He then adds that he &#8220;would have ordered the pigs to be shoot down, if they hadn&#8217;t been already registered by the battalion&#8221;. Does he mean the animals, or the prisoners? <strong>Unsettling question<\/strong>&#8230;A transcription of Carl Schimdt&#8217;s letters is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeana1914-1918.eu\/de\/contributions\/436\">http:\/\/www.europeana1914-1918.eu\/de\/contributions\/436<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348\" style=\"width: 1487px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/09\/inglesi-prigionieri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-348 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/09\/inglesi-prigionieri.jpg\" alt=\"inglesi prigionieri\" width=\"1487\" height=\"1061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/09\/inglesi-prigionieri.jpg 1487w, https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/09\/inglesi-prigionieri-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/09\/inglesi-prigionieri-1024x730.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1487px) 100vw, 1487px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British soldiers captured by the Germans,1918 (http:\/\/www.vlib.us\/)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The second &#8220;guest&#8221; Is <strong>Carlo Pokrajac<\/strong>, soldier of the Austro-Hungarian army. He was born in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Istria\">Istria<\/a><\/strong>, a region that was under Austrian control at the time, and today belongs to Croatia. In the beginning of the 20th century both Slavic and Italian families inhabited the region, that is why his diary is written in Italian. Pokrajac was <strong>taken prisoner in July 1915<\/strong> while fighting the <strong>Russians<\/strong> on the eastern front. He had been drafted only 90 days before, and spent the rest of the war in captivity. In the selected passage of his diary he writes about his capture and his first impressions of the Russians. The enemies, he says, were <strong>not so terrible as they were depicted by the propaganda<\/strong>, and they took care of all the wounded regardless of their nationality. Longer extracts of his diary are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandeguerra.ccm.it\/scheda_archivio.php?goto_id=1219\">http:\/\/www.grandeguerra.ccm.it\/scheda_archivio.php?goto_id=1219<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The third &#8220;guest&#8221; is <strong>Charles Guilbert<\/strong>, a French cavalryman. On the 15th of October 1915 he was wounded and captured in a <strong>German ambush<\/strong>. The Germans took care of his wounds and gave him something to eat and drink, then they brought him in a stable. Suddenly French artillery shells and mashinegun bullets started falling all around, and the Germans left. The next day, Guilbert found out that he was <strong>left alone<\/strong>, and eventually a British patrol rescued him. His memories are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/ppognant.online.fr\/G141802.html\">http:\/\/ppognant.online.fr\/G141802.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Credits-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editing: Laura Leitner, Matteo Coletta.<br \/>\nCommentary: David Leberbauer.<\/p>\n<p>Voices in this episode: David Leberbauer as Carl Schmidt,\u00a0 Matteo Coletta as Carlo Pokrajac und Charles Guilbert.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jingle:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Music: Gregoire Lourme, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamendo.com\/de\/track\/1063185\/fire-arrows-and-shields\">Fire arrows and shields<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\nConcept: Matteo Coletta<br \/>\nVoices: Hannes Hochwasser, Matteo Coletta, Roman Reischl, L.J. Ounsworth, Norbert K. Hund.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stimmen aus den Schutzengr\u00e4ben #9 is dedicated to prisoners of war. More than 7 million soldiers were held prisoners during WWI. Many civilians were imprisoned as well, to be kept as hostages. The treatment of captive soldiers was disciplined by the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 (see episode #5). Here follows a selection of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/09\/03\/der-nacht-hat-man-uns-noch-30-gefangene-serben-gebracht\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;In der Nacht hat man uns noch 30 gefangene Serben gebracht&#8230;&#8221;<\/span> weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4UhV1-5p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}