• A group of Russian POW clerks work under the supervision of Austrian non-commissioned officers (they are wearing their caps) in the camp's Record Office. This office was administrative center of the prison camp since these records kept track of all the prisoners incarcerated in the facility. Source: YMCA Photo Collection A, Kautz Family YMCA Archives, Photo 26H, Minneapolis, MN.

Source: YMCA Photo Collection A, Kautz Family YMCA Archives, Photo 26H, Minneapolis, MN.

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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