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Because there was so little of it, food played a very important part in a POW's life. The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva provided food parcels to POWs from those countries which were signatories to the 1929 Geneva Convention. Here men at Stalag 383 at Hohenfels in Germany prepare their lunch using food from parcels.
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Credit
Alexander Turnbull Library,
War History Collection
Reference: DA 3705
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