|Title||German prisoners watching atrocity newsreels at Fort
Lawton during World War II, Seattle, 1945 | |Caption||As many as
20, 000 troops at a time were staged at Fort Lawton during World
War II, and a total of 1.1 million troops passed through the
Fort during and after the war. About 1, 150 German prisoners of
war were housed there, and some are buried in the cemetery
there. | |Notes||Written on sleeve: GERMANY, Prisoners| Written
on image: Ft. Lawton German war prisoners view atrocity
newsreels Caption information source: HistoryLink.org, Essay
1757, "Fort Lawton is established on February 9, 1900." Date
photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of
photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): 1945.
|Subjects||Audiences--Washington (State)--Seattle; Military
personnel--German--Washington (State)--Seattle; Prisoners of war
--German--Washington (State)--Seattle | |Places||Fort Lawton
(Seattle, Wash.); United States—Washington (State)--Seattle |
|Digital Collection||Museum of Hi