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100	1		_aBlanesburgh, Robert Younger, Baron, _d1861-1946
245	1	4	_aThe horrors of Wittenberg
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-03-14
508			_aBob 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			_aThe 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. 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			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: C. Arthur Pearson, Litmited, 1916
653			_aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons
653			_aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Medical and sanitary affairs
700	1		_aGreat Britain. Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/horrorsofwittenb00grea/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78203
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