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- A Polish Legionnaire officer looks out of his cell window, behind iron bars, at Huszt while two Hungarian sentries stand guard. He probably committed an infraction of the camp regulations which resulted in his incarceration inside a prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Aloise Storch, a soldier in the Czechoslovak Legion, was captured by the Austrians and found guilty of treason in a court martial. He was hanged from this gallow at Riva, Italy as a warning to other nationalist-minded Czechoslovak soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Army.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Austrian troops examine the bodies of recently hanged Serbian prisoners at Krovchevatz in March 1916. This photograph was made into a post card and the French found it on the body of a dead German officer.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photograph shows a mace, used by the Germans to kill wounded Allied POW's. This mace had a flexible handle and a strap. It was undoubtedly used in close combat in the trenches and not necessarily employed to dispatch wounded men.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is the entrance to an escape tunnel through the floor of the French adjutant's room at Zwickau. Tunneling was a popular means of escape for POW's who had expertise in mining and excavation. Large numbers of war prisoners could escape if the tunnel extended beyond the security zone of a prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A French prisoner of war, tied to the stake for breaking one of the camp rules at Zwickau, receives a glass of water from a compassionate Romanian POW to help alleviate the French soldier's suffering.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- View of the city of Yozgad and the Allied POW quarters, secretly photographed by British prisoners incarcerated there by the Turks. The British POW's ingeniously constructed a camera which allowed them to record some of their experiences under Turkish captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Five Czechoslovak Legionnaires were hanged from makeshift gallows from trees in Montello, Italy for fighting for Czechoslovak independence with the Allies. Austro-Hungarian authorities charged these prisoners with treason and found them guilty.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a photograph of two maces, reportedly used by German soldiers to kill wounded prisoners. Both have wooden handles, but one has a strap. These types of weapons were common in both Allied and German trenches and were used during hand-to-hand combat.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This map shows the infamous "death march" of British and Indian prisoners from Kut-al-Amara to Turkish prison camps in Anatolia. Starved, sick, and wounded POW's went up the Tigris River and to cross the Syrian Desert on foot before they reached the rail line at Ras-el-Ain. Thousands of Anglo-Indian prisoners died during the forced march and the cruel treatment by the Turks became a major political issue in Britain.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
