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Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1950
Description: Burial plot at Forest Hill Cemetery, where 140 Confederate prisoners of war were interred after perishing at Camp Randall military prison during the spring...
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: A Confederate Rest at the Forest Hill Cemetery, with graves of Confederate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1862.
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Confederate Rest Cemetery

Date: 1898
Description: "Confederate Rest" in Forest Hill Cemetery where Confederate prisoners of war who died at Camp Randall are buried. In this early photograph, there is a woo...
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Captive, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Captive held in a concrete room in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam in the aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village. The woman is wearing all black, is barefoot an...
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German Prisoners of War Marching to Truck

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Elevated view of a work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.
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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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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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Serbian Prisoners in Skutari

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Description: Serbian prisoners in Skutari under guard going to receive a meal.
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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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