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Creation Date
1915
Description
POW's from seven countries pose in this photograph taken in the prison compound at Friedrichsfeld. These troops came from Belgium, Britain, France, French West Africa, India, Russia, and Serbia and demonstrated to the German people the global challenge they faced in the war. Such photographs aided the German propaganda campaign; the Germans argued that the Allies had to rely on man power from their subject colonies to support their war effort.
Keywords
Germany, Friedrichsfeld, Camp Order, Propaganda, British POWs, Indian POWs, Russian POWs, French POWs, French Arab POWs, Belgian POWs, Serbian POWs, World War 1914-1918