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Belgian Refugees Return Home

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees returning home to Antwerp after having fled to neutral Holland in the wake of the German invasion inn 1914.
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Serbian Prisoners

Date: 1914
Description: A group of Serbian prisoners standing on a street.
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Serbian Prisoners of War in Sabac

Date: 1914
Description: A group of Serbian prisoners standing on a street.
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French PoW's Receiving Meals

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Description: French prisoners in the German PoW camp in Zossen, Prussia, with steaming bowls of soup.
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Breakfast at the Zossen PoW Camp

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Description: Prisoners in the Zossen camp are lining up before the kitchen as they wait for their meals.
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French PoW's

Date: 1914
Description: Group of French PoW's of varying nationalities and ethnicities standing in front of their barracks at the camp in Zossen.
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Four French PoW's

Date: 1914
Description: Four prisoners, of varying nationalities, standing outdoors at the Zossen PoW camp.
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French PoW's at Zossen

Date: 1914
Description: A group of French PoW's at the camp in Zossen under the direction of their own non-commissioned officers.
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Group Portrait of PoW's

Date: 1914
Description: PoW's, of varying nationalities, in the Zossen PoW camp.
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Germans Released From French POW Camps

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Description: German Red Cross officers and men who had been released from French PoW camps in conformance with Geneva Convention rules.
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Released German PoWs

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Description: German Red Cross officers and men who had been released from French PoW camps in conformance with Geneva Convention rules.
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PoWs on the German Swiss Border

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Description: Two German medical officers who had been released from French PoW camps in conformance with Geneva Convention rules.
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Russian Prisoners

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Description: Russian deserters, now prisoners, who are at work in Skiernewize (Skierniewice), taking a break for lunch.
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Russian Prisoners Working

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Description: Russian prisoners working to restore the destroyed train station in Skiernewize.
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Digging Soldier's Graves in Russian Poland

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Description: "Oh Czar, could you ever imagine this." In the palace garden, Russian prisoners digging graves for our brave soldiers who have died heroes' deaths in Russi...
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Serbian Prisoners in Skutari

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Description: Serbian prisoners in Skutari under guard going to receive a meal.
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Russian Prisoners Carrying Wounded Troops

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Description: Russian POW's carrying wounded Austrian soldiers over difficult terrain in the Black Mountains, Montenegro and Albania. The Black Mountain(s) refers to the...
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Russian Prisoners Carrying Wounded

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Description: Russian POW's carrying wounded soldiers over difficult terrain in the Black Mountains of Montenegro. The Black Mountain(s) refers to the area around Mount ...
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Russian Prisoners Carrying Wounded

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Description: Russian POW's carrying wounded Austrian soldiers over difficult terrain in the Black Mountains of Montenegro. The Black Mountain(s) refers to the area arou...
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Released Austrian POW's

Date: 01 28
Description: This is how our soldiers looked when released after suffering 11 months of deprivations as prisoners of war. Photograph taken on January 28th (1916) in Cet...

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