World War I POW Camps
During World War I camps were run by the 25 Army Corps Districts into which Germany was divided.
Read more about this topic: List Of Prisoner-of-war Camps In Germany
Famous quotes containing the words world war i, world and/or war:
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“The statements of science are hearsay, reports from a world outside the world we know. What the poet tells us has long been known to us all, and forgotten. His knowledge is of our world, the world we are both doomed and privileged to live in, and it is a knowledge of ourselves, of the human condition, the human predicament.”
—John Hall Wheelock (1886–1978)
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)