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1. Bread Warehouse at Zossen

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A British sailor hands a loaf of bread to a French prisoner under the supervision of a German NCO in the bread warehouse in Zossen. Russian prisoners look on from the right as a British POW loads some bread into a hand truck which will be used to distribute the bread in the camp. Note the stacks of loaves of bread behind the prisoners. Bread was a major component of POW rations in all German prison camps.
Date Created:
1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

2. French and Belgian POWs Eat Soup at Zossen

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Smiling French and Belgian prisoners pose for a photograph with their bowls of soup in hand at the prison camp at Zossen (including one French North African POW standing on the left side of the photo). These pictures of content prisoners with lots of soup were distributed in the West to counter Allied accusations of starvation in German prisons.
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1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

3. Muslim Kitchen at Zossen (Wuensdorf)

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British Indian Muslim troops prepare to slaughter three sheep for dinner at the Muslim camp kitchen in Zossen while French North African POWs watch the processing. Note the pile of potatoes in the background on the ground. Zossen-Wuensdorf was a propaganda camp in which Muslim prisoners enjoyed special privileges. The Germans planned to recruit Muslim POW's to fight for the Sultan in the jihad against the Allies.
Date Created:
1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

4. Distribution of Rations at Zossen

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French and Belgian prisoners leave the camp kitchen at Zossen with bowls of hot soup in hand. They will eat their meals in their barracks.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

5. Muslim Kitchen and Indian POWs at Zossen (Wuensdorf)

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A group of Indian Muslim prisoners of war relax outside the prison camp kitchen at Zossen-Wuensdorf. Some of the prisoners are preparing sheep for slaughter for their dinner. The kitchen maintained strict religious standards for the Muslim POW's incarcerated in the camp.
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1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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6. Indian POW Bakers at Zossen (Wuensdorf)

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Indian prisoners prepare unleaven bread from a special wheat flour in an oven in the prison camp at Zossen-Wuensdorf. Indian POW's peer through the barbed-wire covered window to watch the bakers at work. As a propaganda camp designed to recruit Muslim prisoners for Turkish Army service, the Germans permitted the Indian POW's to prepare special meals that were not available in other camps.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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7. French POWs Receive Soup Rations at Zossen

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French prisoners carry out hot bowls of soup from the camp kitchen in Zossen and are heading back to their barrack to enjoy their meal. In some prison camps, all POWs had to report to the camp kitchen for their rations while at others two prisoners would visit the kitchen and bring back a large pot of rations which would be distributed inside the barracks.
Date Created:
1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

8. Soup Line in the Camp Kitchen in Zossen

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Belgian and French prisoners wait patiently in line outside of the kitchen in Zossen to receive a bowl of soup. The same prisoners happily pose for a picture with hot soup after receiving their meals in the camp kitchen. Individual distribution of rations was inefficient but it guaranteed equality between the POW's. Service to barrack representatives represented a faster distribution of rations but German authorities could not supervise the actual disposition inside all of the barracks.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

9. Weekly Menu at Zossen (Weinberg)

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This French menu for the prison camp at Zossen-Weinberg appeared in the German magazine "Der Krieg." The menu dates from the early part of the war and describes the lunches and dinners served at Zossen on a daily basis. It includes an illustration of a French prisoner wearing wooden clogs, eating dinner in a chair. The menu gave German readers an idea of the fare the German government provided to Allied prisoners of war under Ministry of War care.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries