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1. Germans Seize Belgian Deportees for Work in Germany

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This cartoon depicts a Belgian work kissing his baby goodbye as German soldiers seize him for employment in Germany. The workers' wife, mother, and child are powerless to prevent his deportation.
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1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

2. Deported French and Belgian Worker Post Card

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French and Belgian workers deported from their homes by the Germans to relieve the empire's labor shortage used this type of post card to communicate with their families. This type of post card was used by workers in German-occupied France.
Date Created:
1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

3. Deportation of Belgian Women to Germany

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Drawing of German troops collecting and deporting Belgian women and children to labor camps in Germany in 1917 as a priest looks on from the steps of his church. The Germans relied heavily on conscripted labor to support their war industries and did not have access to overseas labor, due to the Allied blockade.
Date Created:
1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

4. Belgian Deportee Working in a Munitions Factory

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This Dutch cartoon, drawn by Louis Raemackers, illustrates Belgian deported laborers working in a German munitions plant. One of the workers muses that the shell he is making may be the one that kills his son, who is fighting with the Allies on the Yser.
Date Created:
1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

5. Germans Seize Belgian Worker

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This Dutch cartoon shows a bound Belgian worker led away by German troopers while a third German soldier bars his wife at the front door to prevent her from helping the worker. Allied control of the world sea lanes allowed the Entente nations to import laborers from China, Southeast Asia, India, and Egypt while simultaneously denying the Germans access to international labor through the blockade.
Date Created:
1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

6. Interned Belgian Civilians at Guetersloh

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A group of interned Belgian civilians pose for a photograph near some trees in the compound at Guetersloh. Given the advanced age of many of the internees, they were probably political prisoners rather than laborers. Note the identification bands on their upper left arms.
Date Created:
1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

7. Behold the Enemy! Belgian Internees Deported to Germany

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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
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Western Michigan University. Libraries