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- Thousands of Russian prisoners climb aboard trains at the railway station at Stryj enroute Austro-Hungarian prison camps after their capture in the Spring 1915 Galacian campaign. Austro-Hungarian troops stand on the station platform. The hut on the first car in the foreground offers protection to the Austrian sentry assigned to guard the prisoners on that car.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Serbian POW's march into captivity as a German transport train advances to the front during the Serbian retreat of 1915.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A German officer meets with Romanian officers under a white flag of truce to negotiate the Romanian surrender of Bucharest in December 1916. The German officer delivers the terms of the surrender in the offered envelope.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany talks to a Serbian boy surrounded by German staff officers (note the military chaplains wearing the crosses in the background). A German regiment "adopted" this boy and provided him with a German uniform. The Russian and Serbian armies had large numbers of boys in their ranks (they usually followed their fathers into military service) and they provided a wide range of services from drummers to powder monkies.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Italian prisoners of war, captured in the Gorizia (Goerz) campaign, march down the mountain under an Austrian cavalry guard, past an Austrian supply column heading up the mountain.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Austro-Hungarian troops escort deserters back to Dual Monarchy lines for court martial. Minority nationalities attempted to cross the lines to escape the war, rather than serve their imperial masters, or to fight for their national freedom.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A detachment of French prisoners of war stand at attention in a German town, enroute to a prison camp. A number of German civilians stop to investigate the group out of curiosity, as these men may be their first view of the enemy. Germans would see a great many more Allied prisoners pass through their towns.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The Frankfurter Zeitung published these graphs in July 1915 showing the losses in battleship tonnage and the nationality of Allied prisoners of war in Central Power hands. The number of Russian POW's (1.5 million) dwarfed the numbers of other Allied countries.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners march out of the fortress at Przemsyl after Central Power forces recaptured the stronghold in June 1915. Przemsyl, a strategic pre-war Austrian fortress in the Carpathian Mountains, changed hands several times during the war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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
