• Captured German troops stand at attention in preparation for transfer to an American POW camp in September 1918. With the collapse of the German Spring Offensive on the Western Front, the Allies counterattacked and American troops captured large numbers of troops ordered to cover the German retreat. Source: Forbes, Leslie's Photographic Review of the Great War, 1920.

Source: Forbes, Leslie's Photographic Review of the Great War, 1920.

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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