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- Russian and French patients in the hospital ward at Friedrichsfeld peel a basket of potatoes outside in the hospital courtyard. Preparing daily rations was a major undertaking in German prison camps.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French and British prisoners of war sit and peel potatoes as cooks stir the soup over the stoves. These POW's have a lot of work to do given the vats full of potatoes. It was imperative for the camp kitchen feed thousands of prisoners three times a day to keep all of the POW's healthy.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners of war line up for their meals at a window counter at the camp kitchen in a German prison camp. The POW's then took their bowls back to their barracks where they ate their meals.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners stack freshly baked bread on cooling shelves in the bread warehouse at Josefstadt, under the supervision of an Austrian non-commissioned officer. Large prison camps went through thousands of loaves of bread every day as bread was served with almost every meal.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British interned civilians file through the prison camp kitchen and have hot soup ladled into their dinner buckets. Before leaving through the exit on the right hand side, a prisoner smells his bucket to figure out what kind of soup is on the menu that day. Note the bars on the windows to prevent nocturnal visits from hungry or enterprising internees.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The POW kitchen staff, with their German non-commissioned officers, stand with their cooking utensils in front of the prison kitchen at Meschede. The staff, composed primarily of French POWs, is well equipped with a wide range of cooking tools. Note the presence of German officers and several civilians in the back row, which suggests that a camp inspection was underway at the time of this photograph.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A British prisoner of war adds a shovel load of coal to the fire which heats the stove where other British POW's prepare a meal under the direction of a German non-commissioned officer. The amount of soup prepared in the kitchen at Limburg is reflected in the size of the ladle and stirrer held by the prisoners. Meals had to be mass produced to meet the nutritional requirements of prison camps three times a day.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British internees work in the prison camp kitchen at Ruhleben preparing soup under the direction of a German non-commissioned officer. This kitchen served the thousands of British civilians interned in this facility.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A French prisoner peels a pile of potatoes in the kitchen at Muensingen in this wood cut. Potatoes were easy to boil in the large camp ovens and provided an important source of starch in POW diets. A cat enjoys sitting in the kitchen behind the prisoner.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Fresh-baked bread rolls out of the oven in the prison bakery at Guetersloh. A prisoner holds a loaf of bread. Bread was served with all of the meals in German prison camps and mass production was essential to maintain daily caloric requirements.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
