• With their hats in their hands, Russian prisoners participate in a prayer at Wirballen. These prisoners may have been on a labor detachment assignment and they may be reciting a dinner prayer, as suggested by the dinner pails carried by several of the POW's. Source: The Great War in Pictures, No. 8 (1915): 9.

Source: The Great War in Pictures, No. 8 (1915): 9.

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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