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General Giraud as the prisoner of war. The Commander in Chief of the annihilated French 7th Army, General Giraud, as prisoner of war. It was taken shortly after his capture and before his removal to Germany.

Allied prisoners rescued by U.S. troops. Ragged and thin, many of them seriously ill, the liberated men of five nationalities (Russians, Yugoslavs, Frenchmen, Poles and Italians) receive instruction about meals at a reception center behind Seventh U.S. Army lines. The ex-prisoners, from internment camp at Stieringon-Wendel (one mile from Forbach), were fed, registered and given medical examinations ...

German officer prisoners of war. German officers prisoners cluster round the log fire in the mansion they occupy. Reading is a favourite pastime.

Axis prisoners in United States. An Axis prisoner operates a lathe at a camp in the U.S. where he and other soldiers who surrended to the Allies on the battlefields of Europe and North Africa are being held. Prisoners may work at their civilian trades or in other jobs if they wish to, thus augmenting their monthly cash allowance of $3 by the pay of 80 cents a day. The men are not permitted to work ...

French soldier guards German prisoners in Italy. A French North African infantryman of the Allied Fifth Army guards German soldiers, captured on the Italian front, as they line up awaiting transportation to an Allied prisoner of war stockade behind the lines. Since the Allied landings on the Italian mainland, 13,000 Germans have been taken prisoner up to Feb. 12, 1944.

First German prisoners from France arrive in England. Nazi prisoners disembark at a British port on their arrival from France, where they were captured during the opening phases of the Allied landings to liberate Europe. They are among the first batch of German beachhead prisoners to reach England.

U.S. prisoners liberated. A liberated American prisoner reads a book, leaning against a box covered with a towel. Boxes served as pillows for prisoners at Nazi Stalag XXII-A. Hospital cases slept on these wooden beds for months, others on a straw-strewn floor. Each man had only one blanket and there was no heat. The food consisted of a bowl of thin soup and a piece of bread a day.

Liberated Javanese prisoners of war, Koepang, Timor. The welcome signwhich was created by the inhabitants of Koepang for liberated Javanese prisoners of war when they returned to Koepanf. NI 3646

First German prisoners from France arrive in England. Some of the many hundreds of Nazi prisoners from the French beachheads are shown marching through an english coastal town on their way to an internment camp.

Nazi booty and nazi prisoners in Russian hands. These german tanks were intact when Red Army men captured them Among them are many of the vaunted Tigers.