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- Notes:
- Russian prisoners relax on the bank of a small lake while other prisoners enjoy a swim near Grafenwoehr. The Germans fenced off the swimming area to deter prisoners from taking too long a swim. Such excursions usually required prisoners to give their parole, or word, that they would not try to escape during their trip away from camp.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photo montage shows Russian prisoners of war assembling for their morning Appell (Roll Call) in the compound of an unidentified German prison camp. Prisons were literally a sea of humanity.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a copy of the 27 January 1915 edition of "The Ruhleben Camp News," a fortnightly newspaper which was the official organ of the Ruhleben prison camp. At a cost of ten Pfennige, interned civilians could read official notes, published in English and German (which included a prohibition against hawking), and a list of divine services for the Church of England, Roman Catholic, Jewish, and Deutsch Evangelisch prisoners.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- While enlisted men rarely had much money in prison camps, officers were in another class altogether. This 100-Mark bill came from the officers' prison camp at Villingen and, as stated on the front of the bill, it was valid only in the prison camp. The currency was issued by the XIV Army Corps in Karlsruhe in October 1915 and had the official stamp of the Ministry of War. This was a considerable amount of money and German authorities had to be careful that this money did not end up in the unofficial black market purchasing contraband nor used for an escape attempt.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian POWs from Wasbek work on a labor detachment clearing brushwood and hauling down trees with ropes. Note the Russian prisoner high in the tree in the center of the photograph. German troops guard the work detail to prevent escapes.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners of war work on wood carving and wicker projects outside their workshop in the prison camp at Aschaffenburg under the supervision of German non-commissioned officers. The workers have displayed examples of their handiwork on the table and on shelves, including a chair, baskets, and an ornate house.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photograph depicts French North African colonial troops sitting on a bench in the prison camp at Muenster-Rennbahn. The Germans used photographs of Allied colonial troops as domestic propaganda to emphasize that the empire was truly fighting a global war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a portrait of a Tartar soldier from the steppes in Russian service incarcerated at Hammerstein. The Russians mobilized troops from the breadth of the tsarist empire to fight the Central Powers.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners, wearing the new steel helmets that offered soldiers far greater protection than the felt caps, enter a French church where they will either spend the night or join other prisoners for transport to Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The Germans constructed this playground for the children interned in the civilian camp in the city of Rastatt. Children play on the swings and on the merry-go-round while adults look on along the perimeter of the grounds.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
