- POW's struggled to build any kind of shelter to protect themselves from the elements when the Germans first opened the prison camp at Sennelager. In this sketch, the prisoners have improvised using earth dugouts and pieces of wood to construct crude huts. Source: Mahoney, Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons, 1917, 226A.
Source: Mahoney, Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons, 1917, 226A.
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| Subjects |
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