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German prisoners captured by photographers. German prisoners captured by photographers attached to the First U.S. Army (in jeep) are marched to the rear along the Frankfurt-Cologne autobahn. On March 26, the 300,000th German prisoner taken by the First U.S. Army since D-Day(June 6, 1944) was captured.

Nazis prisoners through streets of Moscow. Twenty abreast, Nazi prisoners captured on the fronts in White Russia march through the streets of Moscow to entrain for prisoner-of-war camps. The Red Army has captured Minsk, Pinsk and Dwinsk and is now sweeping into Poland.

Young German prisoners of war are re-educated in U.S. camp. Prisoners of war H. Sternberg (right), formerly conductor of the Hanover Opera Symphony, leading a prisoner-student orchestra and choir in the playing and singing of Ës war ein König in Tule, an air from the opera of Faust.

Nazi prisoners parade on famed autobahn. Nazi prisoners fill the center of the famed autobahn (super motor highway) near Giessen, Germany, March 29, 1945, as tanks and vehicles of the Sixth Armored Division, Third U.S. Army, speed forward. Giessen is 30 miles north of Frankfurt-on-Main.

Czechoslovakian prisoners cheer leberators. Wild with joy, Czechoslovakians heil their liberation by American soldiers, cheering an kissing each other at their internment camp near Bayreuth, Germany, where the gates were opened by troops of the llth. Armored Division, Third U.S. Army. Bayreuth is 30 miles west of the Czechoslovakian border, crossed by the Third Army.

' Nazis Massacre Russian Prisoners. April 8, 1945, Nazi SS troopers shot over 200 Russian prisoners of war at Wulfel, a suburb of Hanover, Germany. Photo: German civilians carrying shovels pass through the same cemetery gate that the Russian prisoners did just before being murdered by SS troops. They have been ordered to dig proper graves for the disinterred victims.

Happy war prisoners. Some of the prisoners at a Northern depot off for a game of football. A British sergeant is carrying the ball.

Polish prisoners rebuild their own country. Polish prisoners-on-war doing re-construction work under the eye of a German officer, in the former Polish province of Posen.

British prisoners of war in Norway. British soldiers, said to have been captured by the Germans in the Lillehammer district, after putting up a heroic resistance against the enemy land and air forces.

Prisoners of war hear chapel services. Catholic and Protestant church services are held once a week for these German prisoners-of-war at a camp in Pont Celles, Belgium. The chaplains, one of whom is shown addressing this group, also are war prisoners.

Allied prisoners rescued by U.S. troops. Thin and weak, but smiling with joy, liberated prisoners talk to their American rescuers.

German prisoners transported to rear from Meuse battle. German prisoners, taken by U.S. troops who halted the Nazi drive to the Meuse River, hard together in a U.S. army truck, under guard of an American military policeman. They will be transported with other truckloads of prisoners to the rear for internment. The U.S. War Department announced in Washington December 26 that 13,273 Germans had been ...