Sports Day at Celle | Michigan Memories

Description:

British enlisted prisoners participate in the YMCA Sports Day competition at the prison camp at Cellelager before a large crowd of spectators of Russian POW's and German officers. Note the construction of a new barrack in the background.

Institution: Western Michigan University Libraries

Rights:

No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: Conrad Hoffman, "In the Prison Camps of Germany," New York: Association Press, 1920, 184A.

Subject Topics:

Germany,

Celle,

Sports,

YMCA,

Entertainment,

Work,

Construction,

Camp Work,

Camp Order,

Quarters,

Security,

British POWs,

Russian POWs,

German Guards,

German Officers,

World War 1914-1918,

Diplomatic History,

European History,

Military History,

Political History

URL: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/849

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