Prisoners of war on Onrust Island, Java.

Kamp Onrust, augustus 1946

Prisoners of war on Onrust Island, Java. On the island to Onrust, off Tandjong Priek, is a prisoner-of-war camp, which helds 200 German POW's and appreximately 800 Indonesians arrested during military actions in Java. The Germans are mostly U-beat crews who were trapped in Java after the Japanese collapse. Indonesian republican" newspapers stated that prisoners on Onrust were being ill-treated, and these photographs show the fallacy of his accusation. The men are being treated strictly according to the Geneva-convention. Germans and Indonesians work together in the engineroom on the island, and are responsible for the maintenance of the machinery which pumps the water and generates the electricity for the island." NI 914