Apparently, during WWI, German prisoners were easier to pacify than during WWII. These pictures of their craft activities were taken whilst they passed the time in a French prisoner camp.
PASSING THE IDLE HOURS German captives
in France, in order to puncture the deadly monotony, spend their time
making toys out of egg shells, paper, and bread crusts, for the peasant
children.
THREE EXAMPLES OF OVO-ART On the left we have a Russian soldier
ogling a bottle of vodka—the label on this bottle had to be translated
twice in order to appear in English. On the right is the brother-in-law
of Lewis Carroll’s March Hare.
GERMAN SOLDIER AND FRENCH PIG The censor has interfered with the
explanation; we can only guess whether the artist would have called this
pleasant scene “Pals” as a satire upon his living condition, or merely
“The Commissary’s Delight”.
GERMAN SOLDIER WITH FRENCH CAPTIVE
BRITISH WARSHIPS BEWARE! This fiend of the seas is constructed of eggs, ink, paper, slue, and similar deadly materials.
GENERAL JOFFRE, SIR EDWARD GREY (Note the horns), CZAR NICHOLAS
A GERMAN AIR SCOUT
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