• French and Belgian prisoners receive "care packages" outside of the barracks at Minden I. The parcels are distributed by POW Red Cross workers, laboring under the direction of German non-commissioned officers. Source: Backhaus, Die Kriegsgefangenen in Deutschland, Photo 70, 1915, 52.

Source: Backhaus, Die Kriegsgefangenen in Deutschland, Photo 70, 1915, 52.

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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