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- German troops round up all of the males in a Serbian village for internment during the third invasion of the kingdom in 1915.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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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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- German troops search a house after capturing a sniper, a situation which occurred frequently in Belgium and northern France. The combatant status of snipers was open to interpretation by the Germans and insurgents out of military uniform often received summary judgments.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- German staff officers interrogate a recently captured French prisoner for military intelligence.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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
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- 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
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- Despite early successes in invading East Prussia, the Germans, under General Paul von Hindenburg, bolstered the German defenses and soon drove the Russians back into Russian Poland. This photograph shows 15,000 Russian prisoners of war awaiting transportation to prison camps in Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
- Notes:
- The Germans destroyed the Russian 10th Army at the Second Battle of the Mazurian Lakes in February 1915, which finally ended the Russian threat to East Prussia.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Captured Romanian troops march past the Transylvanian city of Heltau and into captivity in September 1916.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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
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- 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
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- Russian prisoners captured in the fighting in Austrian Galacia carry their machine guns over their shoulders or drag the weapons in pairs through the streets of Gorlice.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Eight British prisoners of war line up for a photograph in the Cambrai citadel after their capture in the failed Somme Offensive in August 1916.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Hundreds of British prisoners line up in the citadel at Cambrai in August 1916 after they had been captured in the fighting during the Somme Offensive.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- Russian officers attempt to rally their fleeing men before a German attack in this 1917 drawing. The disheartened Russian soldiers are striving to avoid capture by the Germans so they can return home to their families.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Fifteen-thousand Russian prisoners of war line up for a meal in Augustowo, in Russian Poland. The feeding and care of millions of Allied POW's placed a tremendous strain on the German war economy. The author suggests that the burden of feeding millions of Entente POWs would help the Allies win the war.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This drawing shows the prison cells at Fort Hirson from an outdoors perspective. A civilian looks out of his cell, holding the bars which prevent his escape.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Serbian POW's march into captivity as a German transport train advances to the front during the Serbian retreat of 1915.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A German officer meets with Romanian officers under a white flag of truce to negotiate the Romanian surrender of Bucharest in December 1916. The German officer delivers the terms of the surrender in the offered envelope.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany talks to a Serbian boy surrounded by German staff officers (note the military chaplains wearing the crosses in the background). A German regiment "adopted" this boy and provided him with a German uniform. The Russian and Serbian armies had large numbers of boys in their ranks (they usually followed their fathers into military service) and they provided a wide range of services from drummers to powder monkies.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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:
- The Frankfurter Zeitung published these graphs in July 1915 showing the losses in battleship tonnage and the nationality of Allied prisoners of war in Central Power hands. The number of Russian POW's (1.5 million) dwarfed the numbers of other Allied countries.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners march out of the fortress at Przemsyl after Central Power forces recaptured the stronghold in June 1915. Przemsyl, a strategic pre-war Austrian fortress in the Carpathian Mountains, changed hands several times during the war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- A group of recently captured Russian soldiers rest on their way to the prisoner assembly center in the German December Offensive in 1915 on the Vistula Front. The Russian prisoners are talking to an Austrian soldier.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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
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- A German Uhlan patrol captured these Russian scavengers during the Winter of 1914-1915. Troops who became separated from their units often resorted to "living off the land," which sometimes included plundering.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- German infantry storm a French trench on the Western Front during a raid, seeking intelligence and prisoners for interrogation.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A rare photograph of Russian soldiers surrendering early in the war: a Russian soldier to the right waves a white handkerchief after his comrades laid down their rifles and raised their hands in submission. The Germans used these types of photographs for propaganda purposes.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- The deck of the German commerce raider S.M.S. Moewe is crowded with Allied prisoners, seized from cargo ships on the high seas. If a commerce raider slipped past the Allied blockade, their prisoners would spend their captivity in naval prison camps.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This drawing shows a typical cell for civilian internees at Fort Hirson--an iron bed, a bench, and a picture. Most cells also included a small stove which provided limited warmth.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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:
- The extent of the Russian defeat at the Masurian Lakes by February 1915 is aptly depicted by these stacks of rifles surrendered by Russian soldiers in a German building.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- 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:
- In these drawings, French prisoners stop for a lunch of soup after their capture on the Western Front. A French African colonial solider is featured in the lower center row of the drawings.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners of war march past the Royal Palace through the streets of Berlin, probably in the process of changing trains for their prison camp assignments. Civilians on the street cars watch the Russian parade. The German caption for the photograph, "Russian Entry into Berlin," was intended to point the irony that a Russian invasion consisted of millions of Russians captured by the Germans on the Eastern Front.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- British prisoners line up for an inspection at Arras, a POW collection center for Allied prisoners bound for Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This colorful wooden Russian soldier raises his hands in surrender; it was built by workers in Vilna in Lithuania, a region of the Russian Empire recently occupied by the German Army.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Hundreds of Russian prisoners of war march past captured gun carriages and German soldiers and into captivity in Germany. After their initial success in the invasion of East Prussia in August 1914, the Germans mounted a massive counter-offensive and destroyed a Russian army at the Battle of Tannenberg.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French prisoners captured in the fortress at Meubeuge parade before their surrendered weapons and General von Zwehl and other German officers in August 1914.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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:
- Georges Desson was interned in this cell at Fort Hirson, a French fortress south of Maubeuge near the border with Belgium. The French did not maintain this fortress before the war so it remained generally intact during the German advance into northern France. Desson joined several French internees in captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- 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:
- During the winter of 1914-1915, Desson and other civilian internees tried to stay warm at night by sitting around the small iron stove in the cell.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photograph aptly shows the demoralization of Russian soldiers by 1917. Upon hearing news that German cavalry had broken through the lines in Galacia, these infantrymen threw down their arms and fled headlong to the rear past this Polish church.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A German calvary attack is about to break the Romanian line at Argeful in September 1916. The Central Power offensive occupied most of Romania with the exception of northern Moldavia.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- This sketch by Lt. Alec Waugh of the British Army depicts the German trench attack which resulted in his capture and eventual imprisonment in the prison camp for Allied officers at Mainz.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French officers wait for a train that will take them to a German prison camp on the platform at the train station in Vouziers in France. Some of the German soldiers to the left wear full back packs and are probably preparing for deployment in the front lines.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A group of British and French prisoners pose for a photograph at a prisoner collection center in Courtrai, Belgium. The photograph included Lt. Pat O'Brien, an American who served as a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps, who was shot down behind enemy lines (he is standing in the center of the photograph behind the seated German guard). O'Brien paid a German guard a Mark for the photograph.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- A German patrol surprises a Romanian squad on the border early in the Central Power invasion of Romania in September 1916.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Russian prisoners of war accompany their captured artillery in the Lithuanian town of Seiny.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Wounded Russian prisoners sit at a German first aid station in Jaroslau after having their wounds bandaged. The German medics are standing in the street next to the horse-drawn ambulance.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Recently captured by Bavarian troops, these Senegalese soldiers will join their French comrades behind them in captivity in Germany. The German caption calls these colonial troops "Franzoesische Kulturtraeger" ("Conveyors of French Culture") to highlight the Allies' dependence on colonial forces for their security.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Captured Russian troops march to a collection point behind the German lines while German troops advance to the front during the Galician campaign of 1915.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A column of Italian troops marches past captured artillery at Karst to the German rear for assembly and transportation to prison camps in Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Kaiser Wilhelm II and Crown Prince Wilhelm, with members of the German General Staff, review a parade of captured French troops in an unidentified French town early in the war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- French West African troops flee before a German attack on the Western Front.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- German troops capture twenty-five Russian soldiers from Kyrgyzstan at Brzeziny in Russian Poland in 1915.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- 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
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- Sketch of three Russian soldiers captured by German troops finishing their lunches.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- 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
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- British residents in Germany march to a detention camp as enemy aliens; these men would end up assigned to captivity in Ruhleben. Note that while some of the internees appear carefree about their situation (they probably expected a short war and minimal inconvenience), others are hiding their faces from the camera to avoid recognition.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- Serbian prisoners of war march into German captivity as they pass a German transport train in a mountain pass between Macedonia and Montenegro.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The Germans interned civilians who might cause problems during the military occupation. In this cartoon, German officers at Crepy-en-Laonnois inform Georges Desson that he was under arrest and would be interned.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- German troops are in hot pursuit of fleeing Russian soldiers and cavalrymen during the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia at the end of August 1914. The Germans destroyed the retreating Russian Second Army after the Russians invaded East Prussia.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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
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- Two blindfolded Russian officers negotiate surrender terms with German officers somewhere on the Eastern Front.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Thousands of Russian prisoiners of war line up in an East Prussian town early in the war in preparation for transportation to prison camps in Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- French soldiers throw up their hands in surrender in the face of an overwhelming cavalry charge by the Bavarian 6th Lancers at the Battle of Legarde early in the war during the German offensive in northern France.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A long line of French prisoners stream through a depression in the French countryside at Ripont towards a prisoner collection center in 1917.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- French prisoners, wearing the new steel helmets that offered soldiers far greater protection than the felt caps, enter a French church where they will either spend the night or join other prisoners for transport to Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- An idealized drawing of a joint German-Turkish-Bulgarian attack on a Romanian village in Dobrudja, an offensive which put Romanian and Russian troops to flight.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries