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- This photo affords a view of the inhospitable coast north of Latakia where the Turks chased 5,000 Armenians after the general massacre in Asia Minor in 1915.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This color drawing shows an Austro-Hungarian infantry assault on Montenegrin positions on Mount Lovcen in January 1916. The Austrians sought to capture the fort at Kouk at the top of this mountain, which defended the kingdom's port at Cattaro. At dawn, 500 Austrian artillery pieces and the guns of the Austrian warships in the bay launched the barrage. After two days of shelling, the Montenegrins fell back to the capital, at Cetinje, and the Montenegrin commander-in-chief, General Radomir Vesovic, surrendered his army on 17 January 1916.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The 9th Hungarian Hussar Regiment overruns the Russian lines during the Battle of Limanova on the Carpathian Front.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- German troops are in hot pursuit of fleeing Russian soldiers and cavalrymen during the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia at the end of August 1914. The Germans destroyed the retreating Russian Second Army after the Russians invaded East Prussia.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Indian troops sit at a table enjoying a game of cards at Muenster II. German officials emphasized the importance of colonial troops for the Allied cause through a propaganda campaign which underlined Germany's struggle against most of the world.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is an interior view of the fortress from the courtyard at Wuerzburg. The round building to the left is the castle's chapel. POW quarters are located along the courtyard as well as various administrative buildings.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners return to the prison camp at Grafenwoehr after spending the day on a labor detail. They return carrying firewood to heat their barracks at night.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French-speaking Belgian prisoners of war lived in this barrack at Goettingen. The Walloons' facilities were comfortable; they had access to desks and a large collection of books. Their walls are decorated with a number of pictures. Goettingen was a propaganda camp for Belgian POW's, who received special privileges during their incarceration.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A British non-commissioned officer, smoking a pipe, distributes YMCA parcels to Scottish prisoners of war in the compound at Goettingen. A Russian POW, with a parcel, stands to the right. The Association made special arrangements to provide POW's with goods not included in regular Red Cross parcels.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British prisoners of war exercise and get some fresh air on a street in Yozgad, near their quarters. The Turks incarcerated British POW's in houses in this city.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
