• German medical officer supervises the application of a fresh bandage to the stump of a prisoner's leg in a hospital ward at Ingolstadt. In the background, German nurses bandage another prisoner's head wound. Attentive German medical service helped a large percentage of Allied sick and wounded recover and survive the war. Source: Backhaus, Die Kriegsgefangenen in Deutschland, Photo 115, 1915, 67.

Source: Backhaus, Die Kriegsgefangenen in Deutschland, Photo 115, 1915, 67.

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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