HC Deb 09 November 1944 vol 404 c1550W
Sir R. Glyn

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is satisfied that German prisoners of war are being employed on tasks of a similar character by all the United Nations within whose territory these prisoners are now held; and whether, in view of the tasks to which Allied prisoners have been put by the Nazi authorities in enemy territories, he will review the position.

Mr. George Hall

The treatment applied to German prisoners of war who are held by an Allied Government and the treatment applied by the German authorities to nationals of an Allied Power are matters which primarily concern that Government. So far as His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom are concerned, the provisions of the Geneva Convention are applied to German prisoners in their hands, and they will continue to press for similar treatment of British prisoners in German hands.