• The building with the dome to the right is a YMCA hall established in a POW camp for Central Power prisoners somewhere in Siberia. The prisoners of war lived in the barracks across the parade grounds at the back of the photograph. Source: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 2:11 (1 June 1917): 26D.

Source: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 2:11 (1 June 1917): 26D.

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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