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This photo of people from Britain’s colonies in Africa is one of the 40 propaganda photos taken by Albert Grohs in the Ruhluben internment camp near Berlin. It is part of the Maurice Ettinghausen Collection of papers at the Harvard Law School Library
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Voices of African POWs speak in poetry of their misery

German linguists and anthropologists recorded the music and languages of seamen and army workers captured in WWI

  • Anette Hoffmann
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