Two articles that floated past my corner of the Internet seemed worth sharing with my Great War readers.BBC Magazine ran a short article on the German internment of British civilians at Ruhleben during the war. The rather short and facile piece touched on a few aspects of life in the camp in a reductionist, almost insulting manner. The Beeb seems to have gotten enough annoyed feedback from readers who had relatives in the camp that they ran a second article, featuring biographies of several of the internees. These bios, wholly or in part supplied by information for readers, give a fuller and more detailed look at life in the camp and the different paths that led its inmates there.
The other article, curiously, comes from the science-fiction/futurist blog io9. This piece concerns the (Allied) cats of World War One. There's minimal text to it, but it features about a dozen and a half photos of cats in various Allied military settings in the Great War, including naval cats, air cats, and trench cats. I rather imagine the Central Powers forces had their cats as well, but no photos of them were included.
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