Parcel Post Wagon Traveling to Merseberg

Parcel Post Wagon Traveling to Merseberg

Description:

Russian and French prisoners pull a wagon full of correspondence and parcels from the train station to the prison camp at Merseberg. Horses were in short supply in Germany after the war started, while POW labor was plentiful. Prisoners took over the job of pulling wagons whenever possible.

Rights:

No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: Wilhelm Doegen, "Kriegsgefangene Voelker," Berlin: Vertrag Politik und Wirtschaft, 1921, Photo 22, 72B.

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