Deportation of Belgian Women to Germany

Notes:

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

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Germany, Work, Belgian Internees, German Guards, Belgium, 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, 86.

URL:

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/191