Kaiser Wilhelm II Meets a Serbian Boy POW
Description:
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany talks to a Serbian boy surrounded by German staff officers (note the military chaplains wearing the crosses in the background). A German regiment "adopted" this boy and provided him with a German uniform. The Russian and Serbian armies had large numbers of boys in their ranks (they usually followed their fathers into military service) and they provided a wide range of services from drummers to powder monkies.
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Western Michigan University Libraries
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No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: Der Weltkrieg, 5 (1916): 77.
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