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Prisoners of war on Onrust Island, Java. On the island to Onrust, off Tandjong Priek, is a prisoner-of-war camp, which helds 200 German POW's and appreximately 800 Indonesians who were arrested during the military action in Java. The Germans are mostly U-beat crews who were trapped in the Netherlands East Indies after the Japanese collapse. Indonesian 'republican' newspapers stated that prisoners on ...

Nazi prisoners dig up mass grave at Lorient. Members of a group of 60 German prisoners working under the supervision of Major Jean Moinet, French Army Intelligence Officer and investigator for the War Crimes Commission of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, are shown working to uncover a mass grave containing French civilians murdere by the Nazis during the occupation period. The grave, ...

First pictures of German prisoners of war in Britain. Workmen building an air-raid-shelter for the prisoners, seen behind, at a large country house.

U.S. troops round up German prisoners in Italy. German prisoners, guarded by American soldiers, march down a dusty road of Southern Italy toward a temperary prison camp. The Germans were rounded up by U.S. troops at Caiazzo, Italy, during the early stages of the Allied compaign on the Italian mainland (September, 1943)

Nazi prisoners Dodge Shells. German soldiers captured in St. Lo dive for shelter as shells land by them during the fighting on the outskirst of the hinge city of the Nazi defense line in Western Normandy. St. Lo was taken by American forces July 18, 1944.

Working dress of prisoners of war in Siangapore. The only thing that can be said for these clothes is that they are quite simple to wash. They are classed as working dressby Japanese Prisoner of War officials. Private S.W. Ottrey of Echuca, Victoria, wears one pair and hangs the rest of his wardrobe after washing them. NI 5929

Wounded German prisoners await transfer to Allied prison camp. Wounded German prisoners of war rest on stretchers on a quay in North Africa while awaiting transfer to an Allied transport which will take them to permanent prison camps. The prisoners are being watched by U.S. Army and Navy guards (August, 1943).

American gives water to German prisoner. A U.S. Army medical officer gives a drink of warer to a wounded German prisoner who surrendered at Altavilla, southeast of Salerno, during the Allied advance up the Italian mainland toward Naples inSeptember, 1943.

Australian prisoners of war at Changi prison camp. An Australian Labour Squad comprising of liberated Prisoners of War at Changiprison Camp using one of the vihicles wich were only means of transport provided to them to conduct their labour. Even for jobs which took them miles from the camp (such as construction and obtaining wood for the camp) they had to push these vehicles themselves. NI 5927

Nazi prisoner waits to surrender to Americans. A German prisoners tells American soldiers he spent three days in a foxhole waiting to surrender to U.S. forces on the La Haye du Puits front in Normandy. He said he was a Russian from Turkestari who served two years in the Russian Army before he was captured by the Germans and given the choice of serving in the Nazi Army or being shot.

German prisoners board transport for shipment to U.S. German soldiers stand on the wharves of a French port of embarkation waiting to board a troop transport for shipment to prison camps in the U.S. Allied armies in western Europe took 2,472,906 German prisoners between June 6, 1944, the day of the Normandy landings, and April 27, 1945. On April 1, 1945, German prisoners numbering 311,030 were in U.S. ...