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- Notes:
- During their lengthy incarceration, British internees had the opportunity to attend classes in the prison camp at Ruhleben. This was the English class room. University students could resume their college courses by taking classes at Ruhleben while illiterate prisoners could learn to read.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners of war pull a wagon full of mail and parcels into the prison camp at Darmstadt, under the supervision of two German non-commissioned officers and a Landsturm guard, armed with a rifle and bayonet.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners at Koenigsbrueck line up for their lunch of soup. Members of their barrack retrieved the meal from the camp kitchen and distributed the rations in the prison compound. Note the white identity badges on the front of the POW's caps.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- American prisoners of war crowd a religious service in the prison camp at Rastatt. This was a Russian Orthodox Church used by the Ukrainian POW's, but the Americans had access to the building for their divine services.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- German military authorities issued special script to POW's which could be used to purchase goods in the prison canteen. This is an example of a one-Pfennig bill from the Oberhofen prison camp. Prison currency helped reduce opportunities for prisoners to bribe German guards or to support their escape efforts because this script was not valid outside of the facility.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a bird's eye view of the prison camp at Zossen-Wuensdorf which showd Muslim prisoners standing in a circle, listening to the speaker standing on the platform in the middle of the compound. A group of German officers and several Turkish officers stand to the left of the speaker. This photograph may show a recruitment address to attract Muslim prisoners to volunteer to serve with the Turkish Army against the Allies.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of Allied tuberculosis patients stand outside the hospital ward in the quarantine camp at Giessen. A German sentry stands on guard duty to the left along the camp fence. War prisoners detected of communicable diseases were isolated from the general prison camp population to prevent the outbreak of epidemics.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British prisoners scrub down the camp laundry at Limburg under the command of German guards. The stoves connected to the chimney heat water which is usually used by the POW's to wash their clothing inside this facility.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of Russian prisoners rejoice upon hearing the news that the Bolshevik government had signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918, which ended the war on the Eastern Front. Amid the dancing, one Russian prisoner wears a French helmet (at the left). They would soon realize that while the war had ended with the Germans, the Russian Civil War would delay their departure from Germany for as long as five years.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The Germans regularly used prison labor to improve the region's transportation infrastructure. French POW's are constructing a narrow gauge field railway at Minden I, under the supervision of German guards.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
