and the former Austria-Hungarian Empire in June and July 1919. The remaining prisoners who wished to stay in the United States, perhaps 400 or so, then began a letter writing campaign. "We wrote to the Senators and Congressmen representing the sections of the country we came from. We wrote to all of them, collectively and individually. We wrote to judges, lawyers and hundreds of times to the Department of Justice. Never once did we receive an answer from a Congressman. The Swedish and Swiss Legations stopped answering our letters. The Department of Justice invariably replied that it regretted exceedingly not to be able to release us 'in the immediate future.' How we came to loathe that phrase." Erich Posselt was interviewed by a representative of the Justice Department who accused him of having been a passenger on various British vessels, including HMS Hampshire, on which Lord Kitchener died, and thereby aiding and abetting the sinking of Allied ships by German submarines, charges that Posselt characterized as idiotic. Posselt was finally released on parole on January 12, 1920. Internees Richard Goldschmidt Ernst Kunwald Karl Muck Notes Sources Erich Posselt, "Prisoner of War No. 3598 [Fort Oglethorpe]," American Mercury, v. 11, no. 43 (July 1927) 313-323. Internment camps in the United States Internment of German Americans Military installations in Georgia (U.S. state) Prisoner of war camps in the United States United States war crimes World War I crimes by the United States World War I internment camps World War I prisoner-of-war camps World War I sites in the United States