Magazine Cartoon on Escaping from Ruhleben

Notes:

This cartoon is from "The Ruhleben Camp Magazine," Christmas 1916 edition, showing "Sunny Jim" being intercepted by a German sentry as the latter scales the wall. The prison camp at Ruhleben was surrounded by a high wooden fence.

Date Created:

1916-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Germany, Ruhleben, Crime, Escape, Security, Magazine, British Internee, German Guard, World War 1914-1918, Diplomatic History, European History, Military History, and Political History

Rights:

No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: Henry Mahoney, "Interned in Germany," London: Sampson, Low, Marsten, and Company, 1918, 206B.

URL:

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/634