Add to ORKGThe German authorities at the prison camp at Villingen provided Allied POW officers with postal stationery with the camp menu printed on the other side. This stationery was issued for propaganda purposes to show that Allied prisoners received appetizing rations during their captivity. Note that POW\u27s did not have to use stamps to send correspondence through the mail under international postal regulations.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/1720/thumbnail.jp
French prisoners line up with the recently-acquired parcels and Liebesgaben from their family and fr...
While enlisted men rarely had much money in prison camps, officers were in another class altogether....
French prisoners work in the Parcel Post Office in the prison camp at Friedrichsfeld under the super...
Menu from the officers\u27 prison camp at Villingen for the week of 2-8 August 1915. The menu ident...
These postage stamps were sold in the prison camp in Ruhleben to support a private postal system ins...
French and Belgian prisoners unload packages from two wagons outside the parcel post office at Grafe...
Russian and French prisoners work in the parcel post office in Koenigsbrueck preparing for the distr...
After capture, German prison camp administrators sent a post card with limited information (indicati...
British internees wait outside the parcel post office window to pick up packages from their families...
A POW distributes letters outdoors to French and Belgian prisoners at Zwickau. These letters have b...
Sample post card used by Allied officers at the prison camp at Fuerstenberg in Mecklenburg. Allied ...
A ten-Pfennig note from the prison camp in Chemnitz. Prisoners could only use this currency to make...
American prisoners of war line up outside the Parcel Post Office at Rastatt with ten days\u27 supply...
The examples on this page of prison camp script comes from Freistadt (one Krone) and Kleinmuechen (o...
French and Belgian prisoners route letters to their comrades in the prison post office at Grafenwoeh...
French prisoners line up with the recently-acquired parcels and Liebesgaben from their family and fr...
While enlisted men rarely had much money in prison camps, officers were in another class altogether....
French prisoners work in the Parcel Post Office in the prison camp at Friedrichsfeld under the super...
Menu from the officers\u27 prison camp at Villingen for the week of 2-8 August 1915. The menu ident...
These postage stamps were sold in the prison camp in Ruhleben to support a private postal system ins...
French and Belgian prisoners unload packages from two wagons outside the parcel post office at Grafe...
Russian and French prisoners work in the parcel post office in Koenigsbrueck preparing for the distr...
After capture, German prison camp administrators sent a post card with limited information (indicati...
British internees wait outside the parcel post office window to pick up packages from their families...
A POW distributes letters outdoors to French and Belgian prisoners at Zwickau. These letters have b...
Sample post card used by Allied officers at the prison camp at Fuerstenberg in Mecklenburg. Allied ...
A ten-Pfennig note from the prison camp in Chemnitz. Prisoners could only use this currency to make...
American prisoners of war line up outside the Parcel Post Office at Rastatt with ten days\u27 supply...
The examples on this page of prison camp script comes from Freistadt (one Krone) and Kleinmuechen (o...
French and Belgian prisoners route letters to their comrades in the prison post office at Grafenwoeh...
French prisoners line up with the recently-acquired parcels and Liebesgaben from their family and fr...
While enlisted men rarely had much money in prison camps, officers were in another class altogether....
French prisoners work in the Parcel Post Office in the prison camp at Friedrichsfeld under the super...