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- This photograph shows Russian prisoners of war captured by the Germans during the winter of 1914-1915.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- British prisoners at St. Elot prepare to march to a prisoner assembly point under guard by German lancers.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The Germans captured these French prisoners, under Uhlan guard, in the Avocourt Woods during the Battle of Verdun in 1916.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners of war march along a country lane at Lille with their belongings to a POW assembly center in August 1914, guarded by Schleswig-Holstein troops.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Russian prisoners assemble in the town square at Mlawa in Russian Poland under the gaze of Polish towns people and German troops.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Recently captured French prisoners march through the town square in France enroute to the railway station under German guard. A group of German officers and French women watch the procession.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French and colonial prisoners of war march through a French town to a railroad station for transportation to prison camps in Germany. They are guarded by a squad of German Uhlans.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- Under German guard, Russian prisoners work in pairs to drag their machine guns to a prisoner assembly center and eventual captivity in Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Disarmed French prisoners march from a POW assembly point to a railroad station for incarceration in Germany under a German cavalry guard armed with lances and rifles.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners of war line up at a German railway station, possibly in Berlin, in preparation to entrain for a German prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners march along a dusty road to captivity in Germany under the supervision of German lancers.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- After capture in the German offensive in the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes in February 1915, these Russian prisoners prepare for transport to Germany from a German border town. Note the destruction of the town in the background of the photograph.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of captured Indian soldiers stand outside of the citadel at Lille with two German soldiers.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French soldiers, captured during the fighting at Verdun, assemble in a French courtyard, guarded by German troops.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- After resisting an intensive German bombardment, the French garrison surrendered and marched out of the fortress of Maubeuge near the Belgian border on 7 September 1914.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Recently captured French prisoners at Verdun are questioned by German officers. This interview probably occurred early in the battle, around February 1916, given the winter uniforms worn by the soldiers.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Drawing of a German trench raid with a French prisoner in tow; both sides conducted trench raids on the Western Front to develop fighting experience, keep the enemy on their toes, and to collect intelligence by capturing prisoners.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners, many suffering from wounds, march toward the railway station for transportation to German prison camps. There appears to be very few German guards for such a large number of Russian prisoners.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of recently captured Russian prisoners of war sit next to a road under a German guard early in the war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French and British prisoners prepare to board a German troop train at Peronne-Nord for incarceration in Germany. German troops are about to disembark for service in northern France.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A young boy marches with a group of Russian prisoners of war under German guard and into captivity. The Austro-Hungarian s incarcerated thousands of Serbian and Russian boys during the war and worked with the Association to provide relief services to these juveniles.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- These captured French troops assemble in a French town to march to the railroad station and captivity in Germany. They are guarded by German infantry and mounted Uhlan.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French and colonial prisoners of war sit on the ground while guarded by German infantry. The French soldier suffered wounds in his encounter with the Germans.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A room full of German officers interrogate a Russian spy to find out what he has learned. The "spy" appears to be wearing a Russian military uniform, thus the nature of his spying charge is not clear.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- 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
- Notes:
- Wounded Russian prisoners of war pull a cart through an East Prussian town under the supervision of a German guard.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Nine hundred French prisoners march through the streets of Peronne in northern France under German infantry and cavalry guard. German troops stop on the sidewalks to watch the French procession.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A small squad of French prisoners march off under German guard, possibly on a work detail.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Kaiser Wilhelm II and Crown Prince Wilhelm, with the staff of the German 5th Army, review a parade of French prisoners on the steps of an unidentified French church after a Sunday morning service. The French prisoners are guarded by German Uhlans, Landsturm, and infantry.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Thousands of British, French, and American prisoners languish at the prisoner collection center in Laon (the cathedral stands in the background). The Germans captured these prisoners during their Spring 1918 Offensive in northern France.at Soissons-Rheims.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Two hundred French prisoners of war, whom the Germans captured in the Battle of Verdun, line up for their transportation to Germany under Uhlan guard.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of Italian prisoners at rest pose for a photograph with some German soldiers. Several of the Italian prisoners have lost their uniforms but were unable to evade capture.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners march to the rear under a German infantry guard after their capture at Craonne, south of Laon..
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- German troops round up all of the male inhabitants between the ages of fifteen and sixty in the French village of Guiscard (Oise) on 16 February 1917 for transportation to Germany. The Germans used some of these men as hostages but most, especially those with special skills, became laborers.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries