14
Robert’s War
1914–1918
Hostile crowds in Berlin at the beginning of the war.
4
Internment at Ruhleben,
release to the ‘Auer’, then finally home.
P.S. If Le Rossignol is really of much value, the Germans would have let him out long
ago ….
UK National Archives, Kew, FO 383-279. A post script added to a note requesting the
views of HMG on the proposed employment of British civilians in Germany during
WW1. Dated 22 January 1917.
14.1 Berlin, August 1914
Whether or not the Le Rossignols had ever contemplated leaving Berlin
1 after
the events in Sarajevo, their decision was made for them by the British
declaration of war on Germany; a declaration that immediately confined all
British nationals to the German state. The suddenness of the British entry
into the war however, meant that Germany at first had no real idea what to do
with such people, and it wasn’t until mid August 1914 that a vague set of
guidelines emerged outlining the responsibilities and the freedom(s)—or
otherwise—permitted to those who had now become ‘enemy’ citizens. In the
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Robert’s War
1914–1918
Hostile crowds in Berlin at the beginning of the war.
4
Internment at Ruhleben,
release to the ‘Auer’, then finally home.
P.S. If Le Rossignol is really of much value, the Germans would have let him out long
ago ….
UK National Archives, Kew, FO 383-279. A post script added to a note requesting the
views of HMG on the proposed employment of British civilians in Germany during
WW1. Dated 22 January 1917.
14.1 Berlin, August 1914
Whether or not the Le Rossignols had ever contemplated leaving Berlin
1 after
the events in Sarajevo, their decision was made for them by the British
declaration of war on Germany; a declaration that immediately confined all
British nationals to the German state. The suddenness of the British entry
into the war however, meant that Germany at first had no real idea what to do
with such people, and it wasn’t until mid August 1914 that a vague set of
guidelines emerged outlining the responsibilities and the freedom(s)—or
otherwise—permitted to those who had now become ‘enemy’ citizens. In the
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
D. Sheppard, Robert Le Rossignol, Springer Biographies,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29714-5_14
273