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- Notes:
- The Germans quickly arrested potential French sympathizers in Alsace and Lorraine en masse after the war began to prevent any subversive actions against the German war effort. In this photograph, Alexis Samain, the founder of la Lorraine sportiv, an athletic organization in Lorraine, stands in the center; he was among the first to be sent for internment in a German fortress for the duration of the war.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A German sentry, depicted by his shadow in the snow, intercepts two British internees attempting to scale the fence at the prison camp at Ruhleben. One prisoner, still carrying his satchel, hangs helplessly from the top of a post, while the other sits in the snow.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This cartoon is from "The Ruhleben Camp Magazine," Christmas 1916 edition, showing "Sunny Jim" being intercepted by a German sentry as the latter scales the wall. The prison camp at Ruhleben was surrounded by a high wooden fence.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- German censors at Puccheim intercepted this package containing bacteria for germ warfare against cattle and pigs. The photographs show the original message found in a cigarette tin; translations of the message into French and German, the container, the seal, the rubber bladder, the glass tube with the bacteria, and the German document of authenticity. Assured that the bacteria presented no threat to the health of the POW, the prisoner was instructed to give the bacteria to livestock which would undermine German meat production.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French and Russian POW's stroll about the prison compound at the reprisal camp at Szczuezyn in Lithuania in 1916. Both the Allied and Central Powers found that reprisal camps had dubious effects on the foreign and military policies of their opponents.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This poster depicts a horde of German soldiers groping women amid crying children and tired old men and women. Some of the Germans are drunk and are on a rampage. In the background is the remains of a destroyed village and the corpse of a man hanging from a tree. Rape was a problem for both Allied and Central Powers during World War I, but the Allies emphasized the cruelty of the "Huns" throughout the war in a major propaganda campaign.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Survivors of the Armenian Massacre receive soup rations at a refugee camp at Port Said in Egypt.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The Turks assigned British prisoners to live in this three-story house, known as the Upper House, in a neighborhood in Yozgad.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photo affords a view of the inhospitable coast north of Latakia where the Turks chased 5,000 Armenians after the general massacre in Asia Minor in 1915.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A photograph inside the escape tunnel that French prisoners used at Zwickau. The fleeing prisoners discarded their uniforms to the right and changed into civilian clothing before leaving the tunnel for freedom. The prisoners took advantage of the building's foundation in their escape plan.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
