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1. Quarantine Camp at Lamsdorf

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An outbreak of typhus or cholera in a crowded prison camp could quickly result in a raging epidemic. German medical authorities isolated newly arriving prisoners and identified soldiers with infectious diseases. Russian and Romanian troops were the most notorious as carriers of typhus and cholera. The doctors sent sick patients into quarantine in special typhus/cholera barracks, such as the buildings shown here at Lamsdorf. Recovering patients are getting some air outside of the barracks in their special compound.
Date Created:
1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

2. Meat Locker at Lamsdorfer

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The meat larder at the Lamsdorf prison camp is full of pork, beef, sausages, and other foodstuffs early in the war (this photograph was taken in 1915). A German cook and an Allied POW work in the storeroom in preparation for the next meal. The Allied blockade of Germany placed a heavy burden on the Germans' ability to feed prisoners of war within a year.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

3. Allied POW Tied to a Stake

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A prisoner of war, wearing only a towel around his waist, is exposed to the elements while tied to the stake for punishment at the prison camp at Lamsdorf.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

4. Arrival of Russian POWs at Lamsdorf

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As Austro-German forces mounted a counter-offensive in Galacia in 1915, droves of Russian prisoners arrived at German prisons. Hundreds of recently captured Russian POW's disembark from their railway cars at the train station at Lamsdorf while German guards watch attentively behind a pile of logs. The railroad system provided all the necessities for daily life for a prison camp, ranging from food to supplies to prisoners-of-war.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

5. Russian POW Punishment at Lamsdorf

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A German guard smoking a pipe ties a Russian POW to the stake for some infraction of the camp rules at Lamsdorf. Violations of prison camp rules resulted in different kinds of punishments, often physical in nature. German authorities sought to maintain discipline in their prison camps and corporal punishment were practiced by both Allied and Central Power nations.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries