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Collecting Woolen Items for the Front

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Description: Results of the "Reich's Wool Week." Every day loads of wool garments arrived at the collection point in the old Kroll Opera House and were sorted by volunt...
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Female Red Cross Volunteers

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Description: Female Red Cross volunteers in front of the Reichstag building.
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Female Red Cross Volunteers

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Description: Female Red Cross volunteers cheering reservists passing by the Reichstag.
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Daycare

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Description: Daycare for the children of soldiers. Children are cared for and given food daily, without charge, by volunteer aids.
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Daycare

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Description: Daycare for the children of soldiers. Children are cared for and given food daily, without charge, by volunteer aids.
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Daycare

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Description: At a daycare facility for the children of soldiers.
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Feeding The Needy

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Description: Feeding the needy in Friedenau-Wilmersdorf at the Kaiserplatz.
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Sewing Room

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Description: View of the sewing room.
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Ortelsburg in East Prussia

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Description: Landrat (local official) distributing gutscheine (food coupons) to the poor.
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Women at Work

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Description: At work at the Patriotic Women's Association in Berlin. 1. Miss von Hagen, 2. Miss M.L. Schmidt, 3. Mrs. Consul Staudt, 4. Mrs. Excellency Sydow, 5. Miss C...
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View of the Cutting Room

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Description: Female volunteers cutting fabric.
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War Volunteer Unit in Training

Date: 1914
Description: Officers training a Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in Schmargendorf near Berlin.
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Volunteer Unit

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Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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Preparing Uniforms

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Description: Home workers working daily to prepare uniforms for the military.
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First Aid Dogs

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Description: German first aid dogs and their trainers on parade.
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Sharpshooters of the Polish Legion

Date: 1914
Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Officers of the Polish Legion

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Officers of the Polish Legion

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Polish Legion Trumpeter

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Polish Legion in the Carpathians Preparing to Eat

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...

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