Vintage Military - Part 100

 World War I POWs

Our first photo shows prisoners of war in the German Kasan barracks during the German occupation of Bialystock, Poland in World War I.  They are being deloused, which was done to prevent the spread of typhus.

These are poilus (French soldiers) in a German POW camp in WWI.

French prisoners of war showering in a German POW camp near Berlin in March, 1915.

Russian POWs being disinfected in a German POW camp in 1916.

This intriguing photo was taken in Austria in 1917 and labeled "Acromegaly in a Montenegrin POW".  Acromegaly is abnormal growth caused by the body making too much growth hormone.

We end with a photo from 1919, after World War I ended, showing French and English POWs who came back from Germany being disinfected in Holland.