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- Two groups of Italian prisoners at Mauthausen are stripped to the waist to show the effects of tuberculosis on their decimated bodies. Tuberculosis was a serious problem in prison camps during World War I and especially bad in Austrian camps.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners administer the book collection in this library in an unidentified German prison in 1915. The YMCA provided a large number of these books for the benefit of the POW population, including hard to find Russian language books and journals.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners stand in front of earthen barracks in the prison camp at Hammerstein. Winter weather in eastern Germany was severe and the Germans constructed barracks in the ground in an attempt to keep the quarters warmer. The Allies protested against the incarceration of POW's in these types of barracks on health concerns due to the lack of ventilation in these quarters.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Outside view of the bathing facility at Grafenwoehr where prisoners could take hot baths and showers. Cleanliness was an important part of the sanitation program in German prison camps to combat the outbreak of infectious diseases.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A British prisoner of war is buried in the cemetery at Limburg with full military honors, which included a German band and a Landsturm honor guard. While his comrades lower the casket into the grave, German officers stand at attention to the right. Civilians from Limburg, to the left, also attended the burial service.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Serbian prisoners, including boys in the front row, practice their new reading skills in the elementary school at Boldogasszonyfa. Numbers and some of the letters of the alphabet in script and print are on the wall in the back of the room. The Association sought to make the time POW's spent in prison profitable in terms of teaching illiterates how to read and write.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Prisoners of war at Kleinmuenchen used these 1915 notes to pay for purchases inside of the prison camp. This script could not be used outside of the prison facility to prevent the funding of escapes. POW's received these notes in payment for their work or for money sent from home.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners of war, with their hats in their hands, carry a cross and the casket of a comrade along the barbed-wire fence outside of a German prison camp en route to the prison cemetery.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Prisoners prepare to take a shower in a German prison camp under the supervision of German guards. To prevent the spread of vermin and disease, the Germans required POW's to take showers or baths on a regular basis. This photograph shows a typical shower facility in a prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Prisoners of war line up at the counter of the camp canteen to purchase a wide variety of options. By working inside or outside of the camp, prisoners earned camp script (Lagergeld) which they could use to make purchases at the canteen. This photograph was taken early in the war as the shelves behind the counter are well stocked with a wide range of goods and food. Note that some of the workers providing service at the counter are Russian POW's and that several of the waiting prisoners are wearing wooden shoes.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
