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PRISONERS

of

WAR

in ITALY

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Austrian prisoners in Italy

1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

trieste POW italy italian prisoner prisonnier guerre 14 18 1914 1918

Trieste

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Return of Italian prisoners at Triest waiting for boat

between 1917 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

belluno trieste POW italy italian prisoner prisonnier guerre 14 18 1914 1918

Belluno

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Austrian prisoners, now cleaning wreckage.

Strewn streets, before the ARC food distribution headquarters at Belluno,

in the evacuated territory in Northern Italy

between 1917 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

trieste POW italy italian prisoner prisonnier guerre 14 18 1914 1918

Trieste

Trieste.jpg

Return of Italian prisoners at Triest waiting for boat

between 1917 and 1920

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

trieste austrian POW italy italian prisoner prisonnier guerre 14 18 1914 1918

Trieste

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Line of returning Italian prisoners in ARC kitchen.

Serving food in the American Red Cross Kitchen at Trieste

At Trieste, the A.R.C. maintains a canteen where food is served to Italian soldiers

who occupied that city after the signing of the armistice,

at this canteen Italian prisoners returning form Austria also are served.

ca. 1918

Photographer: ARC. Commission to Italy

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

czecho slovak POW italy italian prisoner prisonnier guerre 14 18 1914 1918

Austrian prisoners flying the Czecho-Slovak and the Italian flags

January 1919

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

austrian POW italy italian prisoner prisonnier guerre 14 18 1914 1918

Times of Austrian prisoners on roads of Northern Italy

January 1919

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

POW italy italian prisoner prisonnier guerre 14 18 1914 1918

Prisoners, returning "ex-prisoners", refugees, supply trains, troops;

every road of Northern Italy was thick with war traffic after the big offensive

January 1919

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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