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- This colorful wooden Russian soldier raises his hands in surrender; it was built by workers in Vilna in Lithuania, a region of the Russian Empire recently occupied by the German Army.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Seven Polish prisoners of war painted this picture of the Black Madonna of Czestohowe during their incarceration in a German prison camp. Artists could enhance the beauty and symbolism of prison camp churches through their art work.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This Red Cross Post Card (Germany No. 20) shows a Russian Orthodox priest, in his vestments, and an assistant with a censor holding a religious service for Russian prisoners in the church in the prison camp at Guben. As the church is decorated with palm branches and one of the prisoners is holding palms, the congregants were probably celebrating Palm Sunday. The POW's wear identification bands on their upper left arms. This photograph was posed--note the soldier to the right who is still wearing his hat inside the church.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Hundreds of Russian prisoners of war march past captured gun carriages and German soldiers and into captivity in Germany. After their initial success in the invasion of East Prussia in August 1914, the Germans mounted a massive counter-offensive and destroyed a Russian army at the Battle of Tannenberg.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of Russian prisoners and German soldiers rest for a moment from their work in constructing a second hospital ward at Wasbek. They stand on the frame of the new facility with the building material in the foreground. Note the traditional tree adorning the roof of a new building under construction.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The camp commandant samples the daily ration in the prison kitchen at Chemnitz. This kitchen employed French and Belgian cooks, to the left, and Russian workers, to the right. Meals were prepared in the large cooker for a large number of prisoners. This usually meant rations of some kind of soup.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a frame photograph from a cinematographic film of German prison camps. The photo shows a Russian Cossack prisoner. It may have come from one of Archibald Harte's films of German prisons.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners of war carry the daily provision of bread into a German prison camp in these large boxes. German non-commissioned officers and sentries accompany the detail to make sure that the bread reaches the distribution point.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A delegation of German doctors, French doctors and corpsmen, and a French nurse visit the hospital at Wetzlar. They stand in front of the hospital ward while prisoner patients stand behind a barbed wire fence. Red Cross inspections became a common practice in prison camps to ensure the best possible care of POW's under the care of the belligerent powers.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of Russian prisoners of war at Doeberitz, representing a wide range of nationalities in the tsarist empire, stand in front of their barrack. The Germans assigned Russian and Western Allied POWs to this facility in spite of Western diplomatic protests against this policy. Russian troops tended to carry a wide range of diseases that could lead to deadly epidemics in crowded prison camps.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
