- Austro-Hungarian officers stand outside of their barracks at the prison camp at Tomsk in Siberia for this photograph. Archibald C. Harte, an American YMCA secretary, met these men in 1915 during his first visit to Russia on a mission to establish War Prisoners' Aid work in the Tsarist Empire as a condition for expanding WPA services in Germany. Source: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 1:4 (15 September 1915): 16B.
Source: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 1:4 (15 September 1915): 16B.
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| Subjects |
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