Russian POWs Eating a Meal in a German Prison Camp

Notes:

These Russian prisoners are heartily enjoying their meal of soup in the compound of a German prison camp. By the end of the war, most Russian prisoners were constantly hungry because they did not receive parcels from home to supplement their daily rations and were known to scavage garbage dumps for food scraps.

Date Created:

1917-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Germany, Nutrition, Meals, Rations, Hunger, Russian POWs, World War 1914-1918, Diplomatic History, European History, Military History, and Political History

Rights:

No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: Lothrop Stoddard and Theodore F. Jones, eds., Harper’s Library of the World War, Volume VI: The World at War: Revolutions and Social Changes in Thirty-Six Lands, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1920, 139.

URL:

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/263