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- Prussian infantry storm a French trench in this drawing during the winter of 1916-1917 and some French soldiers raise their hands in surrender.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Portrait of a Russian prisoner of war from Georgia in a German prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Recently captured French troops await transport to Germany at Laon after their surrender to German troops in the German Spring Offensive of 1918.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- German staff officers interrogate several rows of recently captured Russian soldiers to determine the status and morale of the Russian Army. Judging from the clothing of the German officers, this photograph was taken in late Fall 1914.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A prisoner of war delivers a lecture as the class of prisoners carefully take notes in the YMCA hall. A Red Triangle secretary reported that the building had two classrooms and that prisoners filled both rooms for 125 hours of instruction each week.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The photograph on the left shows a loaf of bread sent to a German prison camp; when opened, on the right, the bread contained a compass which could be used by escapees for navigation. One of the repercussions of attempting to send contraband in POW parcels was to increase German surveillance of packages and tighter inspections. This often meant the destruction of food containers desperately needed by some prisoners for survival.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A Russian barber conducts a brisk business cutting hair for his fellow soldiers at the prison camp in Puchheim. Barbers performed a critical sanitary service in prison camps by keeping hair short which would reduce lice infestations in crowded barracks.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The camp commandant inspects the daily production of bread in the prison bakery at Quedlinburg. German officers record the production numbers and French bakers remove the freshly-baked loaves. Bread was an important part of the prisoners' diet and each prison had to produce vast amounts of bread on a daily basis.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A Muslim military band performs outdoors in the prison compound in Zossen-Wuensdorf. The prisoners stand behind the band with a German guard, enjoying the entertainment.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners transport a shipment of parcels in the town square in Landshut in Bavaria. The town church is in the background of the photograph and the activity has caught the attention of a number of German civilians. The French war prisoners will pull the wagon full of parcels back to the prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
