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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
PRISONERS
of WAR
in FRANCE
page 3
Juvigny
American Red Cross men assisting wounded German prisoner to ambulance station,
near Juvigny (Aisne)
16 December 1918
United States Army Signal Corps, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Et lui ?
Aidez-nous á lui trouver du travail quand il reviendra
And him ?
Help him to find work when he returns
Soldier standing in front of two workers.
About five hundred thousand French prisoners were held by the Germans between 1914 and 1918.
An exchange of prisoners was negotiated in 1917,
for those prisoners over forty-eight years old,
who had been held prisoner for at least eighteen months.
1918
Paris : R.L. Dupuy
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Reims
Reims.
German prisoners doing reconstruction work
20 May 1919
Photographer : Guerin, A.R.C.; photo by the American Red Cross.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Prunay
Prunay sixteen kilometers from Reims.
German prisoners gathering shells from the fields preparatory to exploding them
May 1919
On caption card: photo by the ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Prunay
Prunay.
16 kilometers from Rheims. German prisoners gathering shells from the fields
preparatory to exploding them.
American Red Cross photo
May 1919
On caption card: photo by the ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Prunay
Prunay.
German prisoner arranging shells gathered from the fields into a shell hoel,
preparatory to exploding them
May 1919
Photographer : ARC
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Château Thierry
Château-Thierry.
Rebuilding what their wantoness destroyed.
A group of German prisoners doing road reconstruction work in the town of Château-Thierry
13 May 1919
Photographer : Marshall & Guerin.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Château Thierry
Château-Thierry.
One of the little ironies of life from a German's viewpoint.
German prisoners doing reconstruction work in Château-Thierry
which they had sought feverishly to destroy it a few months before
13 May 1919
Photographer : George E Marshall & Guerin.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
From all along the battle lines these German prisoners filed into France
c1919 April 9
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Brest
Brest.
German prisoners of war painting
the American Red Cross canteen and rest room on the embarkation pier.
The American guard with the fixed bayonet looks rather bored over his job
29 April 1919
Photographer : Guerin
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Paris
Paris.
A copy of a poster sent out showing the happy condition of the German prisoners of war in France.
This was part of the French propaganda.
The original is in the Musée de la Guerre, Paris
Photographer : George E Marshall
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Cornay
"Beware of entrance into a quarrel"
Sgt. Alvin C. York standing in front of hill where 132 German prisoners were taken in Oct. 1918, Argonne Forest near Cornay, Ardennes, France.
1919 Feb. 7
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Saint Louis
American Red Cross Canteen work at St. Ludwig, Saint Louis Alsace
and the trip of the two Red Cross girls canteen workers,
Miss Cheta Geary, of Denver, and Miss Leititia Curtis, of San Francisco,
who fed the Italian and Allied released prisoners and went over into Baden, Germany
being the first American women to enter Germany after the signing of the armistice
1919
Photographer : ARC.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
German prisoners
24 January 1920
Photographer : ARC. Paris Office.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Goeulzin
Uhlan prisoners at Goeulzin
Photograph shows possibly Polish prisoners of war
surrounded by the French calvary during World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
between 1914 and ca. 1915
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Douai
Uhlan prisoners near Douai
Photograph shows Uhlan prisoners near Douai, France during World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
between 1914 and ca. 1915
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Boche prisoners bringing in wounded Canadians.
October 1917
Photographer: American Press Association
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)