• In this photograph, a group of Polish civilians and Polish legionnaires pose in the prison compound at Havelberg. Their refusal to swear an oath of allegiance to the new Polish regency in Warsaw forced the Germans to intern them for the remainder of the war. Source: Stachiewicz, Za kratami wiezien I durtami, Tom 2, 1928, 339.

Source: Stachiewicz, Za kratami wiezien I durtami, Tom 2, 1928, 339.

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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