• YMCA staff members and Russian refugees pose for a photograph at a Red Triangle Russian Work Camp somewhere in Germany after the war. The refugees lived in the tents in the background and the Association provided these men with employment opportunities. Source: YMCA Photo Collection-Biographies, Kautz Family YMCA Archives, Minneapolis, MN.

Source: YMCA Photo Collection-Biographies, Kautz Family YMCA Archives, Minneapolis, MN.

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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  • American: 1900-present
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