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- This is a view of the interior of the grain storage facility at Milejgany in Lithuania where the Germans imprisoned more than 450 French hostages in January 1918.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The failure of many of the officers of the Polish Legion to take the oath of allegiance represented a political threat to the new Regency Council in Warsaw. Hungarian authorities conducted treason trials in this court room in Marmosa-Sziget.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A prisoner of war, wearing only a towel around his waist, is exposed to the elements while tied to the stake for punishment at the prison camp at Lamsdorf.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This drawing shows a French prisoner of war tied to a stake for some infraction of the camp regulations in a German POW camp. The prisoner was forced to stand for hours outdoors in all sorts of weather. The POW suffered from fatigue, sleep deprivation, and exposure from this kind of punishment.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- In this drawing, a prisoner sits in solitary confinement in the "silo," a deep hole in the ground with the top open to the elements. Guards threw food down to the prisoners who were forced to live in their own filth for days at a time.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners used these tools to build a tunnel to escape from the prison camp at Zwickau. The tools included a winch handle, air pipe, a pair of pliers, a battery, a plug and washer, a hammer, a bucket, a spade, a sand borer, and an electrical cable. These prisoners were well-prepared for their construction project.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Four Czechoslovak Legionnaires hang from trees at Sant Donna di Piave in Italy. Their crime was taking arms against their emperor in support of his enemies and to overthrow his empire by creating a new independent country.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French officers receive their soup rations at the reprisal camp at Szczuezyn in Lithuania in 1916. Conditions in this camp were extremely harsh for the captives.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A secret photograph of dead Italian prisoners lying on the floor in the prison camp at Siegmundsherberg. The devastating effects of starvation can be seen by the protruding bones on these bodies. A repatriated POW smuggled this photograph into Switzerland during the war and it was used by the Italians to demonstrate the terrible conditions which existed in Dual Monarchy prison camps.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The photograph on the left shows a loaf of bread sent to a German prison camp; when opened, on the right, the bread contained a compass which could be used by escapees for navigation. One of the repercussions of attempting to send contraband in POW parcels was to increase German surveillance of packages and tighter inspections. This often meant the destruction of food containers desperately needed by some prisoners for survival.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
