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- French and Belgian prisoners of war wash their clothing outdoors in large basins in the compound of a German prison camp. Clean clothes are hanging from the lines behind the men to dry. The regular washing of clothing and linens greatly reduced vermin infestations and the outbreak of diseases.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French and Polish prisoners of war and interned civilians walk past the old fortress in Rastatt with their dinner pails in hand.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- An exterior view of the Citadel at Mainz, depicting Allied officers relaxing during the day. Some lounge in chairs under trees while others converse. The tennis court is located to the lower left.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Allied prisoners sometimes needed banking services while in prison. Families could send remittances to prisoners to improve their standard of living, neutral officials distributed financial aid to POW's in distress, and the Germans employed POW's on labor detachments. British and French prisoners ran this bank in Muenster I.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Members of the Ruhleben Horticultural Society took their competition seriously in March 1918. The table in an exhibition hall in Ruhleben displays a wide range of fauna grown in the camp and presented to the camp population at Easter.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A Belgian war prisoner and a German guard paint scenes in the prison camp compound in Celle. Prisoners had considerable time on their hands and art was a means to pass their days.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Three Russian prisoners of war with shovels unload a narrow gauge railway car full of potatoes in a German prison camp. A Landsturm guard supervises their work. Railways were critical for transporting supplies to prison facilities for daily operations.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Two wounded French prisoners play chess in the ward of a German hospital. Their moves are closely watched by another French patient and a German soldier in a Pickelhaube. The ward is full of recovering patients.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- View of the front of the recently constructed monastery in Werl, where the Germans imprisoned Allied officers and interned Polish officers of the Polish Legion.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- With German troops in the foreground and sentries ringing the prisoners, several hundred Russian POW's assemble for a photograph in the prison compound at Guben. The Germans often divided up prisons into several compounds for security purposes.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
