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Identifier
Osswald002
Date
10-7-1943
Description
A group of the German prisoners of war taking a break from digging silos and filling up the silos at the Experiment Station south of Hays. NOTE: The picture was taken by L. C. Aicher who was the superintendent at the Ft. Hays Experiment Station during this time. Film no. 2867C by L. C. Aicher (Information from "Ethnic and Historical research concerning the Volga Germans and Ellis County Kansas" located in the Center for Ethnic Studies.)
Physical Description
black and white photograph
Keywords
Prisoner-of-war camps, Men, Prisoners of war--1940-1950
Rights
© Forsyth Library Special Collections, Fort Hays State University. May not be reproduced without permission.
Publisher
Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections.
Collection
Repository
Recommended Citation
Aicher, Louis C. 1887-1977, "War prisoners digging pit silos - south end unit" (1943). Lawrence E. Osswald Photograph Collection. 2.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/osswald/2
Language
eng
Transcription
This is a detail digging silo's and also filling silo's. The silo's are about 35 feet deep and 18 or 20 ft in diameter and hold about 200 tons of silage - October 1943. (Ft. Hayes, KS)
Keywords
Prisoner-of-war camps, Men, Prisoners of war--1940-1950
Comments
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