Russian POW Bartering for Food at Muensingen
Description:
In this interesting wood block print, a Russian prisoner holding two birds is conversing through the camp fence with a German woman and a boy, under the scrutiny of a German guard. The Russian prisoner and German woman appear to be conducting some kind of transaction that involves the exchange of the poultry. Prisoners had time to produce a wide range of goods that could be bartered, although the process would not usually be conducted so openly in public.
Institution:
Western Michigan University Libraries
Rights:
No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: "Hinter dem Stachel-Draht," Stuttgart: Vertrag von Hugo Mathias, 1918, 14.
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