Item 59: Internment camp diary, November 1917-August 1918 - Page 50

<p>[Page 50]</p><p>main instigator, who apparently makes no bones about it, is a certain Wilke, a former employee of Lohmann &amp; Co. From what I hear he was recently called before the committee and told that if he continued on his ways, he&#39;d be shipped to Liverpool. The guy very cynically responded that if the committee acted on its threat, he&#39;d be naming all the culprits and there would be names in there that nobody would have guessed. He said it wasn&#39;t just young people, there were some older gentlemen involved as well, and this must have scared the committee, which dropped the matter. How this evil can get a hold of people who are not normally thus inclined beats me. But quite apart from that, these people also deliver themselves into the hands of this guy, who probably won&#39;t hesitate twice to blackmail them if need be.</p><p>16th/2/18.<br />The [peace] negotiations in L Brest Litovsk continued after a few interruptions, and the peace treaty with the Ukraine has been signed on the 9th of this month. Details are not known at this point, and the English, of course, are playing down the outcome as</p>