• Italian troops and an American YMCA secretary, in civilian clothing, stand outside the newly inaugurated YMCA building at the POW camp in Padula, Italy. The American YMCA provided the funding for the building and Central Power prisoners of war provided the labor in the hut's construction. Source: Association Men, 43 (November 1917): 195.

Source: Association Men, 43 (November 1917): 195.

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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