Organized efforts for US POWs lacking? Not exactly. Germany and America negotiated in Berne a bilateral agreement on POWs and interned civilians while the war was in progress. Neutrals such as the Netherlands and Switzerland (and the US before April 1917) worked with all the belligerents to assure humane treatment for prisoners of war. In all only about 3,500 American officers and men were captured by Germany. See: Prisoners, Diplomats and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity, Richard B. Speed III, Greenwood, 1990. LGS ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.