• A prisoner of war delivers a lecture as the class of prisoners carefully take notes in the YMCA hall. A Red Triangle secretary reported that the building had two classrooms and that prisoners filled both rooms for 125 hours of instruction each week. Source: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 2:10 (February 1, 1917): 26B.

Source: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 2:10 (February 1, 1917): 26B.

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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