Recently Captured Russian Soldiers before Delousing

Notes:

These four Russian prisoners of war just arrived in a German prison camp and are about to undergo the delousing process. German medical officers sought to prevent the outbreak of epidemics in prison camps and the hygiene of arriving prisoners was the first order of business in the facility.

Date Created:

1914-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Germany, Hygiene, Delousing Process, Russian POWs, World War 1914-1918, Diplomatic History, European History, Military History, and Political History

Rights:

No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: Der Weltkrieg, 2 (1915): 340.

URL:

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/230