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- British internees could learn about news and sales at the bill-posting station in the prison camp at Ruhleben. A group of internees peruse recently released notices on the wall.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British internees pose next to the theatrical promotion for "The Hairdresser," which is being held over for additional engagements in July 1915. This play was performed in the Ruhleben Empire, the camp's theater.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian POW's engage in outdoor calisthenics at Zittau (Gross Poritsch) under the watchful eye of German officers to the left by the building. They are conducting stretching exercises. Maintaining physical health was important for both military discipline and healthy troops. Note that the POW's are wearing white identification badges on the left breast pockets of their uniforms.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Two photographs of Italian POW's at Mauthausen suffering from tuberculosis. The "white plague" had a devastating effect on its victims, as demonstrated by these images.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A young boy marches with a group of Russian prisoners of war under German guard and into captivity. The Austro-Hungarian s incarcerated thousands of Serbian and Russian boys during the war and worked with the Association to provide relief services to these juveniles.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- These captured French troops assemble in a French town to march to the railroad station and captivity in Germany. They are guarded by German infantry and mounted Uhlan.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- During the winter of 1914-1915, Desson and other civilian internees tried to stay warm at night by sitting around the small iron stove in the cell.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A German sentry stands guard outside the barbed-wire fence of an unidentified German prison camp. Prisoners of war mill about the prison compound next to some of the barracks and other camp buildings.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Allied prisoners of war had strict orders forbidding fraternization with German guards. There were few restrictions, however, on POW attempts at improving their relations with guard dogs. In this drawing, a British officer and a Russian officer offer some scraps to a guard dog, while a German sentry stands watch at the compound fence.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners are busy in constructio work carrying dirt in wheel barrows at the pond outside of the perimeter security fence at Minden I. They are probably involved in drainage work or shoring up the bank of the pond.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
