Russian POWs Sweep a Street in Russian Poland

Notes:

Russian prisoners clean and sweep the streets of a Polish town under the supervision of a Landsturm guard. The German occupation of tsarist towns led to improved sanitation and reconstruction employing prisoner labor.

Date Created:

1916-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Germany, Work, Sanitation, Russian POWs, German Guards, Russian Poland, 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, 184.

URL:

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/116