French North African POWs at Muenster
Description:
This photograph depicts French North African colonial troops sitting on a bench in the prison camp at Muenster-Rennbahn. The Germans used photographs of Allied colonial troops as domestic propaganda to emphasize that the empire was truly fighting a global war.
Institution:
Western Michigan University Libraries
Rights:
No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: D. Backhaus, "Die Kriegsgefangenen in Deutschland," Berlin: Vertrag Hermann Montanus, 1915, Photo 217, 106.
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