• A group of Allied prisoners of war gather for one last meeting at the YMCA hut at the internment camp in Muerren in Switzerland. Most of these men were sick or seriously wounded and were leaving the next day to return home as part of an exchange program for invalids. Source: Red Triangle Bulletin, No. 10 (5 October 1917): 6.

Source: Red Triangle Bulletin, No. 10 (5 October 1917): 6.

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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