• A French prisoner of war has just received a bread parcel at the parcel post office of a German prison camp. He immediately tastes a piece of the loaf. German censors inspected the bread for the concealment of contraband before turning over the parcel. Source: Scientific American, 116 (20 January 1917): 82.

Source: Scientific American, 116 (20 January 1917): 82.

From Pursuit of an "unparalleled opportunity": American YMCA and prisoner of war diplomacy among the Central Power nations during World War I, 1914-1923 by Kenneth Steuer

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