• Students and their teachers pose for a photograph outside of the school house at the internment camp at Holzminden. German authorities had to provide additional social services to support the women and children incarcerated in civilian internment camps. Source: Backhaus, Die Kriegsgefangenen in Deutschland, Photo 12, 1915, 29.

Source: Backhaus, Die Kriegsgefangenen in Deutschland, Photo 12, 1915, 29.

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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