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- French prisoners work outside their carpentry shop under the direction of a German non-commissioned officer at Darmstadt. They are possibly working on furniture or other projects designed for camp use. POW labor provided services to keep prison camps running.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bones of Armenians massacred by the Turks are unearthed at Erzingan. These "relics" could be found all over Turkish Armenia as the result of the Ottoman government's policy of genocide.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This pamphet was issued as an address to the Polish Legionnaires interned at Bustyahaza in 1918. The address features the white eagle of the Polish coat of arms.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This Russian choir is singing inside the YMCA Hall of a German prison camp. Choirs were very popular in military prisons; they could be used in theatricals, perform at special events and festivals, and support religious services.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French and Russian POW's, comprising the First Company, line up for roll call outside the old fortress at Rastatt. Internees were also incarcerated in this facility during the war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The library was a critical service for POW's as books allowed prisoners to leave the confines of the camp intellectually and improve their educations. This drawing illustrates the French library at Muensingen showing prisoners reading books and writing letters.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A Muslim prisoner of war from French North Africa sits on a stool, smoking a cigarette, in the prison camp at Zossen-Wuensdorf. The Germans took photographs of various colonial troops that they had captured to show the odds the Germans faced and the reliance of the Entente on colonial subjects to prosecute the war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British and French prisoners prepare to open packages from home in the packet mail room in the prison camp at Bautzen. They work under the supervision of a German non-commissioned officer, who is standing to the right.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners pose in their beds in their barrack at Darmstadt. To maximize the use of space, beds are placed next to each other with only a narrow path between rows of bunks. The POW's clothing and dinner bowls hang from the shelves behind their bunks while parcels and food stand on the shelves. The enlisted men faced very crowded conditions in their barracks, which contributed to health problems.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This drawing shows the set and two actors performing in the theatrical "Theodore and Company" at the prison camp in Kedos, probably in 1918.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
