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- Patients at Muenster relax outside the lazaret as part of their recovery regimen. French and Russian POWs are recovering from wounds or illnesses and are enjoying the fresh air. The medical staff is standing to the left of the patients behind a barbed-wire fence. They include Allied medics as well as German doctors.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of French, Belgian, and Russian war prisoners at Reserve Lazarette III in Luebeck pose for a photograph. Note that the German orderlies are wearing black, white, and red arm bands, the German imperial colors. The Germans captured large numbers of wounded war prisoners during their drives into Belgium, France, and Russia early in the war. Seriously wounded or sick POW's were sent to military hospitals and then to reserve hospitals to speed their recovery.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners in the YMCA orchestra perform in an outdoor concert for sick and wounded POW's at Crossen-an-der-Oder. The Association provided musical instruments and sheet music to prisoners to help them form bands and orchestras to provide entertainment to the general prison population.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian doctors care for light cases in the hospital ward at Buetow. The ward is full of sick and wounded but the conditions are clean and bright. Note that the orderlies wear white identification badges on their left breast pockets.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The medical staff at Langensalza assembled for this photograph and includes French, Belgian, British, and Russian doctors and orderlies. They assisted the German medical staff in the treatment of sick and wounded prisoners in the camp. Under international law, doctors and medics were supposed to be repatriated, because of their non-combatant status, but the need for medical care in POW camps required Allied doctors to remain incarcerated to care for sick and wounded Entente prisoners.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French and Russian prisoners enjoy a walk with a German non-commissioned officer and a Landsturm guard during their recuperation from wounds or illnesses. These POW's work as assistants in the hospital post office and canteen.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of Russian prisoners and German soldiers rest for a moment from their work in constructing a second hospital ward at Wasbek. They stand on the frame of the new facility with the building material in the foreground. Note the traditional tree adorning the roof of a new building under construction.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A delegation of German doctors, French doctors and corpsmen, and a French nurse visit the hospital at Wetzlar. They stand in front of the hospital ward while prisoner patients stand behind a barbed wire fence. Red Cross inspections became a common practice in prison camps to ensure the best possible care of POW's under the care of the belligerent powers.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- An unidentified YMCA secretary meets with a group of sick and wounded Russian prisoners of war in an unknown Austrian prison camp. These men are in the process of recovery; they are out of their beds in the hospital ward, but are not yet ready for assignment to their barracks.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Gravely wounded German and Russian soldiers lie on blankets and pillows on the floor of this building in Suwalki, Poland. These men's wounds were too serious to allow them to be transported to a field hospital for better care.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries