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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
PRISONERS
of
WAR
in SWITZERLAND
page 6
German propaganda photos distributed in Switzerland
to show how happy American prisoners are in Germany.
Shoes worn by soldiers have wooden soles.
American soldiers immediately after captured are robbed of all leather articles
and given cheap clothing.
ARC in Switzerland sends them fresh outfits of clothing and a box of food each week
between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Singen
Exchanging French - English prisoners, Singen, Switz.
Photograph shows a prisoner exchange in Singen, Germany just north of the German/Swiss border during World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)
between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920
Bain News Service, publisher
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
U.S. Sanitary train which carried out several hundred American wounded
and unwounded privates from Rastatt on Dec. 8.
Swiss Officers and Nurses in foreground,
Train came from France through Switzerland into Germans Rastatt Prison Camp and back to France
17 February 1919
Photographer : ARC. Comm. Switzerland..
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Swiss nurses working with American Red Cross at Buchs on Austrian Swiss frontier
where trainloads of consumptive starving Italians come through en route
to Italy each week from Austrian prison camps.
All sorts of Red Cross supplies made by American women are giving these dying Italians
Photographer : ARC,.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Buchs
Buchs
American, Italian and Swiss Red Cross officials at Buchs on Swiss Austrian frontier
before Italian train on which 600 tuberculosis and starving Italian soldiers
come through from Austrian prison camps,
each week. American Red Cross supplies of all sorts are distibuted
to these half naked, and dying Italians
January 1919
Photographer : ARC, American Red Cross Com. to Italy
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Buchs
Kitchen car attached at Buchs, to trainloads of consumptive and starving Italian soldiers
who come through Switzerland each week on their way to Italy and who are supplied at Buchs
on Austro Swiss frontier with American Red Cross clothing
and food supplied by nurses.
Italian soldiers preparing food for soldiers
January 1919
Photographer : ARC, American Red Cross Com. to Switzerland.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Brienz
Brienz.
French internes gardening in Switzerland
11 February 1919
Photographer : ARC. Mrs. Fiske
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Berne
Private Frank Sovicki, 338407, Company C, Fourth Infantry, of 318 East Central St., Shenandoah, PA., first Amer to escape from a German prison camp.
Frank is a Polish-American but volunteered three days after America declared war.
At the time he was captured he was attached to Company B of the Fourth Inf.
which was at hill 204 near Chateau-Thierry.
Cut off from Company C, Frank, with two other non-commissioned men hid in a shell-hole.
Both his companions were killed by snipers.
At night Frank tried to reach the American lines.
Seeing a group of soldiers whom he believed to be Americans he shouted:
"Don't shoot, I'm an American."
"He was felled from behind, and his gun taken from him upon reaching Switzerland on Oct. 11, 1918.
Frank said:
"I'm going right back to the trenches as soon as I reach France,
and believe me I'll get a few more before the war's over"
20 November 1918
Photographer : Joseph A. Collin
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Buckley,
American escaped from Germany into Switzerland in July, 1918.
Notice prison outfit he wears
January 1919
Photographer : ARC. Switzerland.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Urtenen - Schönbühl
Russian prisoners in a German prison camp Schonbuhl
12 February 1919
Photographer : A.R.C. Mrs. Fiske.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Post Office for prisoners of war mail
11 February 1919
Photographer : A.R.C. Mrs. Fiske.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)