U. S. Gunner Describes Horrors of Hell Hole Of Germany, St. Louis Globe--Democrat, March 3,1918
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AM1987.3.5
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U. S. Gunner Describes Horrors of Hell Hole Of Germany, St. Louis Globe--Democrat, March 3,1918
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat Sunday morning, March 3, 1918 has an article about prisoners suffering from torture wounds, disease and starvation, Rush Hun sentries, hopping to be bayoneted out of their misery: 400 captives die from poisonous inoculations ordered by German surgeons to prevent spread of Typhus in camps. This story was told by gunner Depew. The long article told of inhuman treatment.
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Prisoners of War--World War I, World War I, Germany, St. Louis Globe-Democrat
