• Social workers and neutral inspectors often visited prison camps to meet prisoners. In this wood block print, a social worker, probably a YMCA secretary, distributes books to prisoners of war at Muensingen. Source: Hinter dem Stachel-Draht, 1918, 55.

Source: Hinter dem Stachel-Draht, 1918, 55.

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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