• The lazaret in the prison camp at Merseburg is busy with orderlies and patients. Most of the beds in the hospital ward appear in use by the sick or wounded. The lazarette is well heated and ventilated as demonstrated by the four large wood stoves in the center aisle and the numerous high windows. Source: Doegen, Kriegsgefangene Voelker, Photo 57, 1921, 248B.

Source: Doegen, Kriegsgefangene Voelker, Photo 57, 1921, 248B.

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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