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1. POW Officers' Mess at Bezau

Notes:
Prisoners enjoyed their meals in the hotel dining room in Bezau (Kreuzstein), which was vastly different from the mes halls that enlisted men used in Austrian captivity. The Orthodox cross on the back table suggests that the officers' mess might have served double duty as a chapel on Sunday mornings.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

2. Easter Menu for POWs at the Prison Camp in Mauthausen

Notes:
This is a copy of the menu for Easter dinner in 1916 in the prison camp at Mauthausen; the dinner included wine for POW's.
Date Created:
1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

3. Passover Meal at Hammerstein

Notes:
A group of Jewish Russian prisoners sit at a table, decorated with candles in wine bottles, outside of their barracks for their Passover meal. One prisoner pours wine while another reads from the Torah.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries

4. French Artisans Making Memorials at Heuberg

Notes:
Two French prisoners create a variety of columns, urns, and planters from cement molds in their workshop at Heuberg. Many of these works would become memorials in the POW cemetery. Note the two pigs rutting around in the background of the photograph. Pork products were a welcome addition to the prisoners' diet.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

5. YMCA Program at Parchim

Notes:
Despite the peace treaty between Russia and Germany, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (3 March 1918), Russian POW's continued to languish in German prison camps due to the Russian Civil War. Russian prisoners could not return home because the Allies did not want to swell the ranks of the Red Army and rail transportation through Poland was cut off due to the Russo-Polish War. The American YMCA sent War Prisoners' Aid secretaries back into Germany to provide relief for Russian POW's and M.V. Arnold was assigned to the prison camp at Parchim to restore welfare services. This program, developed by the Russian POW's to honor Arnold's work, depicts various scenes in the prison camp: food provided by the Association, a Christmas tree, a boxing match, a view of a camp barrack, and a German sentry guarding the fence. Note the Red Star at the top of the program. Bolshevik agitators infiltrated many of the German prison camps especially after German authorities captured Red Army troops that chose internment in East Prussia rather than decimation by the Polish Army during the Russo-Polish War.
Date Created:
1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries

6. French Sculptor at Work in Zossen

Notes:
The German authorities permitted this French sculptor to continue his trade in prison at Zossen. He was assigned his own workshop and is working on a monument. This workshop also served as a dining room and a place to sleep (note the pile of mattresses on the floor to the left). The prisoners are very comfortable as one reads a newspaper, another smokes, and two others sit down to a meal.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries