HC Deb 13 July 1944 vol 401 cc1904-5W
Lieut.-Colonel Macnamara

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that there are still in Germany Toc H workers who were taken prisoner in the early days of the war; and whether he will make every effort through the Protecting Power to have them treated as protected personnel and to get them repatriated.

Mr. George Hall

I am aware of the fact that there are some Toc H workers who have been in German hands since 1940. The question as to whether they qualified as protected personnel under the Geneva Convention was very carefully examined soon after their capture and again at a later date, but it was found impossible to claim that status for them.