The German authorities authorized him prisoners to receive and send correspondence, which of course was subject to censorship, With a postal service that is specially set up for them: Kriegsgefangenenpost (P.O.W'S postal service). The German authorities restrict postal traffic by imposing rules both for the families of prisoners and for prisoners:
The families are required to indicate on their shipments the name, rank, prisoner number and the name and number of the camp.
The prisoners must indicate in addition to the destination address, names, prisoner numbers and places of detention. They must necessarily be focused on the two references correspodances:
When letters / cards are provided by the camp, these markings are usually already printed, but sometimes it is delayed by a buffer or even a handwritten.
In both cases, if the censor notes that correspondence, depart from those rules, mentions the geographical place of detention (even in occupied France), the correspondence is written in a language other than French or German (Latin character) it will automatically undistributed. The violation of these rules can worth a temporary or total stopping of the prisoner correspondence authorization.
THE Mail delivery, either for sending or receiving, take a long time, this is usually forced to transfer problems, where delays in censorship office. It is therefore not unusual that reading a correspondence, letters do mentions of concern not receSee new régulary or even the arrival of a letter written several weeks ago, received after more recent!
Of course, these rules only apply to prisoners of war. All persons who were interned in extermination camps and concentration camps had absolutely no rights.
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