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Rescuing Wounded Germans from an English Hospital Ship

Raemaekers, Louis, 1919, Chromolithograph
Rescuing Wounded Germans from an English Hospital Ship
Rescuing Wounded Germans from an English Hospital Ship
Rescuing Wounded Germans from an English Hospital Ship
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Item no
33453
Title
Rescuing Wounded Germans from an English Hospital Ship
Description
"The British hospital ships 'Lanfranc' and 'Donegal', although bearing the plainest indications as to their use, were torpedoed in the Channel by German submarines. As was usual, they were carrying wounded German prisoners as well as British wounded soldiers to England. When the pitiless conduct of the Germans is considered, it speaks volumes for the magnanimity of the doctors, nurses, and crew that no distinction was shown in the work of rescue. The cold blooded barbarism of these pitiless attacks recoiled on the heads of the aggressors, for more than anything else it stirred up a determination in America to speedily bring the perpetrators to judgement."
Artist / maker
Date
1919
Size
32.6 x 26.3 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.