The International Committee of the Red Cross is digitizing the records of the International Agency for Prisoners of War (1914-1919). The results will be available online in 2014. These documents, which are protected by Unesco Memory of the World program, are meant to be a memorial to the war prisoners of the First World War.
Throughout the war, the Agency collected, analysed and organized information, which it received from detaining powers and National agencies, on individual enemy prisoners. On the archival level, the Agency has generated with these documents a research system – a manual database - consisting mainly in series of lists, around 500'000 pages, and a card index counting 6 million cards.
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