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- French Muslim prisoners from North Africa line up for roll call outside of their barrack at the prison camp at Zossen-Wuensdorf. The Germans concentrated Muslim POW's from North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Russia in this prison camp which served as a propaganda facility.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a bird's eye view of the prison camp at Zossen-Wuensdorf which showd Muslim prisoners standing in a circle, listening to the speaker standing on the platform in the middle of the compound. A group of German officers and several Turkish officers stand to the left of the speaker. This photograph may show a recruitment address to attract Muslim prisoners to volunteer to serve with the Turkish Army against the Allies.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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