Talk:Emil Mazuw

Question
If was captured by the British as a common sailor, does anyone know why he was imprisoned until 1920?

V. Joe (talk) 23:15, 1 October 2009 (UTC)


 * When the armistice ended the war, one of its conditions was that the German High Seas Fleet sail to the British port of Scarpa flow while the peace process decided what would happen to the fleet. While the peace treaty negotiations went on in 1919, the sailors of the fleet sat on the ships. They were not technically prisoners then, but they had to stay on the ships and the ships could not leave. The German sailors eventually decided to sink their fleet at Scarpa flow rather than let the British have them. They sank their own ships in 1919 and then were put into captivity (prison camps - they were prisoners of war) on shore. The British were angry at the sailors for what they had done and were in no hurry to return them. They eventually returned all of them them to Germany in 1920. There was nothing special about his captivity. 70.234.252.216 (talk) 05:33, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! V. Joe (talk) 12:58, 7 January 2011 (UTC)