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- Six British officers occupied this room at the officers' prison camp at Friedberg. In comparison to the enlisted men, officers enjoyed a much higher standard of living. They had access to furniture, standing closets, and desks in addition to a large common table. They could also decorate their room with pictures and maps and a guitar hangs in the corner.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of Allied officers at the prison camp at Philippopolis pose for a photograph with an unidentified civilian (sitting in the center with a cane). Most of the men are British or Commonwealth officers, although there is at least one Russian officer in the group. Several men are dressed in civilian clothing and may be interned enemy aliens.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bulgarian dignitaries, officers, and an Orthodox priest attend the inauguration of the YMCA building in the prison camp at Philippopolis in 1917. The building is cheerfully decorated with strings of garland and flags. Serbian POW's stand to the left and Russian prisoners to the right of the building waiting for the hall to open officially. The World's Alliance negotiated access to prison camps in Bulgaria and paid for the construction of this hut.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- With their hats in their hands, Russian prisoners participate in an evening prayer at Wirballen. These prisoners may have just returned from a labor detachment assignment, as suggested by the dinner pails carried by several of the POW's.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners turn over a field with shovels on an Arbeitskommando for cultivation in preparation for Spring planting as German guards watch their progress.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners of war and civilian internees pull a wagon in the compound of an unidentified prison camp. When laborers were plentiful, men replaced horses who were needed to support the war effort.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The Germans quickly arrested potential French sympathizers in Alsace and Lorraine en masse after the war began to prevent any subversive actions against the German war effort. In this photograph, Alexis Samain, the founder of la Lorraine sportiv, an athletic organization in Lorraine, stands in the center; he was among the first to be sent for internment in a German fortress for the duration of the war.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian and French prisoners man the milk bar at the prison camp at Cassel, selling bowls and glasses of milk to the inmates. German authorities supervise the sale of the milk products. Acquisition of fresh milk from the diary farms around Cassel was not a problem for German authorities in 1915, before the Allied blockade took a toll on the German economy.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Two French prisoners and a German soldier pay their respects at the grave of a French prisoner at the POW cemetery at Heuberg.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French "Garibaldianer" troops march past German soldiers on a French street and into captivity under the direction of a German military policeman.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
