• This photograph shows a demonstration of Central Power prisoners of war recently released from Siberian prison camps after the outbreak of the Russian Civil War. While freed from confinement, the war prevented their repatriation home and they became another political problem for the Russians. Source: Association Men, 43 (November 1917): 198.

Source: Association Men, 43 (November 1917): 198.

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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