The horrors of Wittenberg (Registro nro. 118923)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | D501 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Blanesburgh, Robert Younger, Baron, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1861-1946 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The horrors of Wittenberg |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-03-14 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Bob Taylor, Brian Coe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The horrors of Wittenberg by Baron Robert Younger Blanesburgh et al.. is an official government report written during the First World War era. It investigates the treatment of Allied prisoners of war—especially Britons—at the Wittenberg camp, focusing on a devastating typhus outbreak. The report’s likely topic is the causes, course, and human toll of the epidemic, the failures of German camp authorities, and the courage of British medical staff and volunteer orderlies.<br/><br/>The report assembles testimony—chiefly from Major Priestley, Captain Vidal, and Captain Lauder—showing how extreme overcrowding, cold, vermin, poor food, and almost no sanitation primed the camp for typhus. When the disease erupted, the German military and medical staff abandoned the prisoners behind barbed wire, issuing orders only from outside and denying basic medical aid and supplies. Patients lay without beds or clean clothing; lice spread unchecked; rations were meagre and unsuitable; tables served as stretchers; and dressings, soap, and stimulants were largely unavailable, leading to bedsores, gangrene, and amputations. The British doctors reorganized care, concentrated cases, improvised disinfection, and, alongside volunteer orderlies—many of whom died—gradually contained the outbreak. The report records roughly 250–300 British cases and about 60 deaths, condemns systemic cruelty and neglect by German officials (while noting later improvements under outside scrutiny), and closes by honoring the bravery and self-sacrifice of the British medical officers and their helpers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: C. Arthur Pearson, Litmited, 1916 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical and sanitary affairs |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Great Britain. Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/horrorsofwittenb00grea/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/horrorsofwittenb00grea/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78203">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78203</a> |
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