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- View of the front of the Franciscan monastery at Werl which served as a prison camp for Allied officers. Some POW's are sitting outside in the yard of the facility.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is an exterior view of the hospital for prisoners of war at Zossen, probably taken from a guard tower. There are lots of trees in this camp and German soldiers and NCO's are on one of the streets of the camp. The Germans captured wounded and sick Allied POWs and provided care for the less dangerous cases inside prison camps.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This drawing shows the prison compound at Langensalza, including a Russian sentry standing at the inner gate of the barbed-wire fence near a one-story wooden barrack. To the right stand two covered buckets which were probably used to fetch food for POW's inside this compound (the buckets could have also been used for sanitation purposes but the ladle on one of the buckets undermined this possibility). French and Russian prisoners mill about the compound in the background. The Russian sentry is not armed and may be a prison trustee. The Germans and Russians signed an armistice in December 1917 which ended the fighting on the Eastern Front. Because of critical manpower shortages, the Germans employed trusted POW's to serve as guards to replace German troops who were transferred to front line duties.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners leave the theater barrack after an afternoon performance. By the smiles on their faces, most of the men appear to have enjoyed the show. The YMCA provided theatrical costumes, props, and play scripts to improve the morale in camps through entertainment.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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
- Notes:
- A dejected Russian prisoner of war stands in a German prison camp with an apparent hand wound. Prisoners had a great deal of time with few diversions and the indefinite length of their incarceration further undermined their spirits.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A view of the exterior of the hospital ward at Muenster with some French and Russian patients relaxing outdoors. The German medical staff stands in the background next to the hospital ward.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Map of the prison camp at Ruhleben showing the layout of the facility including the barracks, wash house, YMCA, military administration, grand stands, kitchens, tea house, inner and outer race tracks, pond, and athletic fields (the tennis courts, soccer fields, and the lacrosse-field hockey-rugby field). The map also features the camp's coat of arms on the left hand side.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British internees march to one of the camp kitchens at Ruhleben with their dinner buckets in hand. While theoretically under the command of a German non-commissioned officer, several of the internees appear to be out of step in the march. The British civilians chafed under German insistence on running the camp like a military facility.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners inspect a box camera mounted on a tripod outdoors in the prison compound at Grafenwoehr. This was probably their introduction to photographic equipment.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
