Prisoners of war -- Germany.
Subject
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Babcock family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2416
Scope and content
Correspondence, 1940-1949, between Howard E. Babcock, Sr., and Howard, Jr. concerning the son's management of the South Springs Ranch, Roswell, New Mexico, a Cornell University property which they bought in 1943; among the topics discussed are details of operation, especially in regard to the availability, tranportation, and wages of German prisoners-of-war employed during the wartime shortage of farm labor; also included are budgets, inventories, and financial reports, as well as blueprints...
Dates:
1859-1978.
Cross-dressed French prisoner of war postcards
Collection — Manuscript box 86 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113451342]
Identifier: 7795
Abstract
Photographic postcards of French soldiers held as prisoners of war in German internment camps during World War I. Two of the postcards have "Kriegsgefangenensendung" (prisoner of war communication) and the name of the internment camp, the Neues Lager at Königsbruck in Saxony, printed on the back. Both are dated and addressed from René Bossion, a member of the 4th Infantry Batallion, one addressed to Albert Bossion and one to Marie Louise Bossion in Lorient, France, but neither card bears a...
Dates:
1914-1916 November 9, 1945; undated
Gifford Boies Doxsee letter : to Ada Zouche German
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065255311]
Identifier: 6311
Scope and content
Signed autograph letter to Ada Zouche German describing Doxsee's experiences in World War II, including his enlistment, training, participation in the Battle of the Bulge, his capture by the German Army, his time in prisoner of war camps, and his service in Dresden work camps, with particular reference to the fire bombing of that city, and his forced labor in Schlachthof Funf, or Slaughterhouse Five, in the company of the novelist Kurt Vonnegut.
Dates:
1981, Jan. 10
James H. Stephenson papers
Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239778]
Identifier: 339
Scope and content
Material pertaining to Stephenson's time as a German prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 1 (1944-1945) including German currency, correspondence, dog tags, and a description sheet in German of Stephenson.
Dates:
1944-1946.
World War I miscellany
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6726
Scope and content
Government documents presented to the British Parliament, chiefly concerning Allied shipping casualties (including those lost in the sinking of the Lusitania), the treatment of British prisoners of war by the Germans, and the rupture of relations with Turkey. Also, a brochure issued by the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1916, detailing its training methods for cavalrymen and their horses. Maps showing battle lines for various battles, and depicting the European populations...
Dates:
1915-1919.