Russian POWs Planting Potatoes

Russian POWs Planting Potatoes

Description:

A group of Russian prisoners of war turn over the soil in a field in Spring 1915 in preparation for the planting of potatoes. The Germans began to recognize that idle prisoners in camps were a drain on the war economy and these labor detachments, especially in agricultural production, would become very common across Germany.

Rights:

No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: Review of Reviews, 51 (June 1915): 671.

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