The Army Medical Service is a non-combat specialty branch of the German Army traditionally responsible for providing medical services within the army, and which has a humanitarian function during arme
A German Army medic trains to save lives at the NATO Allied Centre for Medical Education at SHAPE, Belgium 2014
Personnel, facilities and ambulance of the Army Medical Service, which all display the red cross as a protective sign, during a military exercise, 2010
A German female major and army doctor serving in the ISAF force in Afghanistan, wearing camouflage uniform
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The Geneva Conventions are a series of four international treaties and their three additional protocols that form the core of international humanitarian law. They establish legal standards for humanit
A facsimile of the signature-and-seals page of the 1864 Geneva Convention, which established humane rules of war
A Red Cross poster from the First World War
The original document in single pages, 1864