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- Austro-Hungarian troops execute blind-folded Serbian prisoners of war in a firing squad. These Serbian prisoners may have been irregular troops conducting a guerilla war against the Austro-Hungarian occupation forces. Under international law, irregular troops did not enjoy the same protections as regular troops.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Austro-Hungarian troops stand next to the bodies of hanged Italian prisoners of war in this photograph. These POW's were probably captured Czechoslovak or Polish Legionnaires, captured by the Austrians on the Italian Front. To keep their nationalities subjugated within the Dual Monarchy, imperial authorities took extreme measures against subjects which joined the ranks of the empire's enemies.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- For the violation of camp rules, prisoners would be punished by being tied to the stake for several hours. Austrian authorities tied this Italian prisoner to the stake in the prison camp at Mauthausen.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Aloise Storch, a soldier in the Czechoslovak Legion, was captured by the Austrians and found guilty of treason in a court martial. He was hanged from this gallow at Riva, Italy as a warning to other nationalist-minded Czechoslovak soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Army.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Austrian troops examine the bodies of recently hanged Serbian prisoners at Krovchevatz in March 1916. This photograph was made into a post card and the French found it on the body of a dead German officer.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A French prisoner of war, tied to the stake for breaking one of the camp rules at Zwickau, receives a glass of water from a compassionate Romanian POW to help alleviate the French soldier's suffering.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Five Czechoslovak Legionnaires were hanged from makeshift gallows from trees in Montello, Italy for fighting for Czechoslovak independence with the Allies. Austro-Hungarian authorities charged these prisoners with treason and found them guilty.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This map shows the infamous "death march" of British and Indian prisoners from Kut-al-Amara to Turkish prison camps in Anatolia. Starved, sick, and wounded POW's went up the Tigris River and to cross the Syrian Desert on foot before they reached the rail line at Ras-el-Ain. Thousands of Anglo-Indian prisoners died during the forced march and the cruel treatment by the Turks became a major political issue in Britain.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A prisoner of war, wearing only a towel around his waist, is exposed to the elements while tied to the stake for punishment at the prison camp at Lamsdorf.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This drawing shows a French prisoner of war tied to a stake for some infraction of the camp regulations in a German POW camp. The prisoner was forced to stand for hours outdoors in all sorts of weather. The POW suffered from fatigue, sleep deprivation, and exposure from this kind of punishment.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
