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Re: Bernhard Rogge
Posted by: David Kennedy ()
Date: August 02, 2003 09:29PM

<HTML>Thanks Chaps,

My thought was that Bernhard Rogge may have taken a personal interest in the welfare of the seagoing prisoners to make a significant gesture in overseeing their handover. One of the British tankermen told me that conditions at the merchant marine/navy camps were far above the first he was in and a then-young wounded Aussie told me that Rogge treated him like a son and regularly visited him in sick bay on board while he was recovering from chemical burns and missed the original prisoner transfer to another vessel. ( I also, perhaps uncharitably, mused that Rogge might have been after information).
The source of Bernhard Rogge handing over Milag/Marlag, without me diving back in to a mountain of information, may have come from someone I spoke to who got out/ was exchanged before the surrender. From what some prisoners I spoke to said, it would have been no surprise to them if Bernhard Rogge had arranged for them to be flown to London with champagne and caviar if he could have.
But thanks for the original posting linking his name with the big northern marine camps and the realisation that some prisoners could have been romancing. I wonder if the other Rogge was a relative -- something is flickering in the brain cells.

David</HTML>

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