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- Notes:
- In this water color painting, prisoners walk along one of the camp's tree-lined streets (Allied Boulevard) in Muensingen. Several of the POWs are returning from mail call and are reading their letters on the steps of their barracks or as they walk in the street.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Example of a letter from a British prisoner at Muenster, written on 16 December 1917. It is written on official prison stationery and has received a German censor's stamp.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French and Belgian prisoners route letters to their comrades in the prison post office at Grafenwoehr under the supervision of a German non-commissioned officer. These letters have been approved by the German censors for distribution. Censors also worked as interpreters between prisoners, German officials, War Prisoners' Aid secretaries, and neutral visitors.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This British prisoner wrote home about his experiences in a German lazeret at Duelmen on 18 January 1918. He praised the German nurses and doctors and the good care they provided during this three-month illness. He wrote the letter on official prison stationery and it received the censor's stamp of approval.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British and French prisoners unpack newly arrived letters and parcels from home in the mail censorship room at Zossen. German officers inspect the packages carefully for contraband. POW's often complained about the inspection process which required the opening of tins and the reduction of shelf life of these packages. However, contraband was sometimes discovered which kept German authorities suspicious of parcels or information in letters.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Sample post card used by Allied officers at the prison camp at Fuerstenberg in Mecklenburg. Allied POW's could send several of these regulation post cards home every month.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners gather around for mail call in the prison compound at Freistadt. These letters were recently passed by the prison camp censor. Note that the prisoners have identification badges on the front of their caps.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- An American and a French POW play a game of checkers, while another prisoner drinks tea and a French prisoner writes a letter. Arab, French, and British prisoners watch the competition as spectators. The wide range of nationalities in the photograph depicts the world war the Central Powers faced in Europe.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a letter and envelope from a French musician incarcerated in the prison camp in Stendal. He sent the letter on 15 December 1915. Note the lack of a postage stamp on the envelope; prisoners could send their correspondence free of charge through the international mails.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian officers share their mail at a table in their room at the officers' prison camp at Bischofswerda. They have received letters, postcards, and newspapers from home after they have passed through the censors' inspection.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
