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1421. British POWs Head for Farm Work in the Fields

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A British labor detachment, composed of English and Scottish POWs, pulls a wagon, with a German soldier on top, to work in the fields. A German woman on the side of the road has caught the attention of some of the prisoners.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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1422. American POWs with Red Cross Parcels at Rastatt

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American prisoners of war line up outside the Parcel Post Office at Rastatt with ten days' supply of food in the boxes on their shoulders. This food was sent to the prison camp by the American Red Cross to make sure that American soldiers survived their captivity in Germany. The line in the front of the photograph is carrying out their parcels while the line in the rear enters the building to receive their rations. The generous amount of food received by American POW's during the famine conditions in Germany caused by the Allied naval blockade caused a great deal of consternation among German authorities, especially when guards caught American POW's "playing with their food." As one prisoner pointed out, canned food would not spoil even if the prisoners had a little fun playing games.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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1423. Arrival of French POWs at Zossen

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A group of French prisoners arrive at the prison camp at Zossen-Wuensdorf and captivity. Some of the prisoners are wounded and others are carrying their meager belongings. German doctors and Allied medics will tend to the wounded POW's in the hospital ward and the remaining war prisoners will receive new supplies for their captivity.
Date Created:
1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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1424. Military Funeral at Carlsruhe

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A British aviator receives a military funeral in the prison camp cemetery at Carlsruhe. In attendance at the ceremony are German officers as well as various Allied POW's.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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1425. Reserve Hospital at Luebeck

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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
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1426. Field Hockey Match at Kedos

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This poster promotes a field hockey match between players from Oxford University and Cambridge University. The artist pokes fun at some of the intellectuals in the prison camp at Kedos, who are slowing up the start of the match. Hockey not only kept the POW's in good physical shape, it also provided entertainment for the other prisoners.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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1427. Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library, interior, students studying

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Education. Students in first floor selected reading room in new Dwight B. Waldo Library, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. Client: Russel Strong, WMU News Editor (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:
1958-10-01T00:00:00Z
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1428. Two Breviary Leaves

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Housed in a modern, mat frame with two windows, 280 x 360 mm, visible on one side only. Leaves were excised from the same manuscript but are not conjugate., 1-line blue and gold initials passim; on leaf I: 2-line blue-and-red pen-flourished initial "M"; on leaf II blank space for a 2-line initial., Fifteenth-century, Italian psalter portion from a Breviary with portions of Psalms 55-56 and 104-105. Not contiguous with text on verso., gothic southern textualis libraria (rotunda), and Probably written in Italy sometime between 1450 and 1500. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio in May of 2003.
Date Created:
[1450 TO 1500]
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1429. Republikaner! Was brachte euch die SPD.! [page 1]

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Campaign literature of the Nazi Party that criticizes the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) for the economic failures in Germany. It explains to voters that the future belongs to the NSDAP, and should be against the SPD and Jewish capitalism. Ending the flyer is the slogan, "Long live Adolf Hitler."
Date Created:
1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:
World War II Propaganda Collections

1430. Nationaler Hindenburg = Wähler! [page 1]

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Election campaign leaflet printed in support of Graf Westarp. It appeals to the voters who elected Paul von Hindenburg as an independent who can now vote Westarp as an independent. It tells them to vote against party-political radicalism that has led to inflation and Civil War in Germany.
Date Created:
1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:
World War II Propaganda Collections