• French prisoners in wooden shoes are hard at work repairing a road on a labor detachment under the careful supervision of German guards, armed with bayonets. Source: McCarthy, The Prisoner of War in Germany, 1918, 50B.

Source: McCarthy, The Prisoner of War in Germany, 1918, 50B.

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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