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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
ARMISTICE
11 NOVEMBER 1918
page 1
How the news of peace reached a German Prison camp in England.
The first tidings came from a young woman Red Cross worker over to the prison camp
informed the man in charge at the gate of the camp.
He was an American officer and he immediately sent orderlies through the camp with the tidings.
Within a few minutes the work of the camp was abandoned,
and the Germans began a hilarious celebration.
At the gate: Miss Alice Fleener of San Francisco and Lieut. I.I. Hodes of Berkeley, California
ca. 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
How the news of peace reached a German Prison camp in England.
The first tidings came from a young woman Red Cross worker over to the prison camp
and informed the man in charge at the gate of the camp.
He was an American officer and he immediately sent orderlies through the camp with the tidings.
Within a few minutes the work of the camp was abandoned,
and the Germans began a hilarious celebration.
At the gate: Miss Alice Fleener of San Francisco and Lieut. I.I. Hodes of Berkeley, California
ca. 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
How the news of peace was received at a German prison camp in England.
Messenger went through the German camp with the news.
Here was on of them stopping a working party to tell them.
"What peace?" says the first prisoner incredulously,
while the rest of the Germans slow down their heavy cart and look questionly at the speakers.
A few seconds and the truth dawned on them and the cart was abandonded in while the Germans throw up their hands and began to cheer and shout
December 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
How the news of peace was received at a German prisoner camp somewhere in England.
German prisoners returning from work in the potato field heard the cheering
in the Amer prison camp up the hill and asked what it meant.
When told that peace had been signed, they were incredulous at first, then stunned for a moment.
But quickly the full import of the news came upon them and then began to smile,
at first quietly then hilariously.
Before the morning was over, the German prisoners had organized a celebration
wich was not a bit less enthusiastic than that at the Amer military camp up the hill.
The American Red Cross girl who is telling them the news is Miss Alice Fleenor of San Francisco
December 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
German prisoners in the hospital prison camp near London celebrate the signing of the armistice.
The Germans learned of the coming of peace from and A.R.C. worker
at the adjoining American military hospital.
They immediately organized a celebration of their own.
Their one band was not enough so they had little groups of men with pots and pans for musical instruments, who marched about the prison camp making a noisy celebration of the big news
December 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
How the news of peace was received at a German prison camp somewhere in England
The prisoners, looking through the barb-wire could see a great parade of Americans being organized in the grounds of the base hosp. a few hundred yard away.
"There is just as much for us to celebrate as anybody!" declared the German sergeant major,
and the prisoners there upon organized a great parade of their own,
led by an enormous imitation camel, constructed of boards and blankets.
The German sergeant major, masquerading as the Arab driver, loads the camel,
and shouts alternately "Hoch Camile" and "Hoch der Republic"
as the parade makes its way around the grounds of the prison camp
December 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)