These three American prisoners were among the first incarcerated by the Germans after the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917. One of the Americans is barefoot and their clothing is in bad shape. They may have been U-boat victims which would explain their desperate situation. Their lives would improve with the arrival of their American Red Cross parcels.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/1340/thumbnail.jp
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A column of fours, as far as the eye can reach, nothing but Germans, muddy, sullen, and harmless, fo...
These British prisoners of war arrived in England in December 1915 as part of an exchange progra...
French prisoners of war recover from their wounds in one of the special reserve hospitals establishe...
American prisoners of war line up outside the Parcel Post Office at Rastatt with ten days\u27 supply...
Group photograph of the first 21 American prisoners of war in Germany, taken by a WPA secretary duri...
These four American sailors constituted the American Camp Help Committee at the prison camp at Brand...
After their arrival in French territory, newly released American prisoners received comfort bag...
The Germans released recently wounded American and British prisoners under their care at the front...
Six members of the American Help Committee at Rastatt pose for a photograph at the time of their rel...
A group of French, Belgian, and Russian war prisoners at Reserve Lazarette III in Luebeck pose for a...
Once organized into individual boxes, the American Distribution Committee could serve 922 U.S. POW\u...
Three Russian prisoners at Worms demonstrate their artificial legs that they received in prison. Ma...
For punishment for breaking camp rules, prison authorities would force prisoners into iron cages whi...
A large group of Russian prisoners captured by the Germans at Tannenberg pose with three German NCO\...
Russian prisoners of war at the prison camp at Goettingen pose for a photograph in front of the new ...
A column of fours, as far as the eye can reach, nothing but Germans, muddy, sullen, and harmless, fo...
These British prisoners of war arrived in England in December 1915 as part of an exchange progra...
French prisoners of war recover from their wounds in one of the special reserve hospitals establishe...