Disinfecting prisoners clothes. German soldiers gassing the clothes of Russian soldiers to remove lice. Conditons in the camp were cramped and so lice

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Disinfecting prisoners clothes. German soldiers gassing the clothes of Russian soldiers to remove lice. Conditons in the camp were cramped and so lice and other parasites were rife. Photographed at Doberitz prisoner of war camp near Berlin, Germany, during World War I (1914-1918).

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