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Austro-Hungarian troops conversing with Russian prisoners of war, photo, 1915

A suggestive photo that is intended to document the allegedly exemplary treatment of prisoners of war, but at the same time raises the topic of fraternisation between the soldiers of hostile armies, not always desired from the official side. From Der Weltkrieg in seiner rauhen Wirklichkeit, Munich 1926, p. 400

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    National propaganda and prisoners of war

    To weaken empires with many peoples in it by supporting national opposition movements was a strategy pursued by many warring powers. That the multi-ethnic monarchies of the Romanovs and the Habsburgs should use such methods themselves proved to be a dangerous game, however.