• As Austro-German forces mounted a counter-offensive in Galacia in 1915, droves of Russian prisoners arrived at German prisons. Hundreds of recently captured Russian POW's disembark from their railway cars at the train station at Lamsdorf while German guards watch attentively behind the pile of logs. Source: Aus deutschen Kriegsgefangenenlagern, Zweite Folge, 1916, 6.

Source: Aus deutschen Kriegsgefangenenlagern, Zweite Folge, 1916, 6.

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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