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Second World War: German Prisoners of War held in captivity by Western Allies

Capitulation of the German defense forces in 1945

Soldiers of the Wehrmacht surrender to the American 36th Infantry Division, 1945

Arrival of German exchange-prisoners in Spain, 1943

Severely wounded German prisoners reach the port of Barcelona as part of a prisoner exchange program between Germany and Great Britain. The returnees were welcomed by the Spanish Falange organizations, the Spanish Women's Organisation and the local branch of the NSDAP. Here the soldiers are leaving the ships. According to the uniforms they are members of the Afrika Korps.

Arrival of German exchange-prisoners in Spain, 1943

Captive German officers in the UK, 1939

Captive German officers in their lodging in northern England. The men have received new clothes and listen smoking to a fellow prisoner who is playing the piano.

German war prisoners clearing up in Munich, 1945

German prisoners are taken to Munich for clean-up operations in the summer of 1945.

Captive German soldiers in North Africa, 1941

Soldiers of the Afrika Korps, who fell in in British captivity during the fights in the area Tobruk and Sollum, are waiting to be transported to a prison camp.

Provisional British prison camp in Egypt, 1942

Soldiers of the African Corps in a provisional British prison camp on the Egyptian Mediterranean coast.

German prisoners of war upon their arrival in the UK, 1942

German soldiers, who fell in captivity at the island of Bruneval when attacking British speedboats, leaving the boats.

The American internment camp Pisa-San Rosario, 1945

View of the American POW camp Pisa-San Rosario

German soldiers after being captured, 1942

German soldiers are searched aboard a British ship. They were members of a garrison of a base on the Channel coast, which was surprised by British speedboats. The soldier on the right belongs to the Air Force.

German prisoner upon his arrival in Canada, 1940

A German prisoner of war or civilian internee looks out of the hatch of a ship, which has brought him to Canada.

German civilian internees in Canada, 1940

German civilian internees at the station of Quebec, from where they are brought into the interior of the country. The interned men and women were previously brought to Canada in fear of a German invasion of Britain.

Allied leaflet, 1945

One of the millions of leaflets which were dropped in 1945 on the German positions and called to stop fighting.

Second World War: German Prisoners of War held in captivity by Western Allies

Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff with General Moscardo, 1943

The German Ambassador to Spain, Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff talking to the Spanish General and Captain General of Catalonia Moscardo (r.) in the port of Barcelona. There they will greet German injured soldiers who, under the mediation of the Red Cross, were exchanged with Britain due to international agreements. The approximately 1,000 German wounded were then shipped to Germany hospital ships with were specially marked and illuminated. In the background, one of the ships with the words "Geleit" (Escort).

German barber in a Canadian prison camp, 1940

A German prisoner during a haircut in the camp.

German soldiers in American captivity, 1945

American military policemen take away the officer Henke in their jeep, who was captured along the Ansbach highway together with about 100 other German soldiers.

American soldiers and SS guards in Dachau, 1945

Soldiers of the 157th Infantry Regiment of the US Army are targeting SS men, who are lined up along a wall. According to the original caption, the SS men lying on the ground try to pretend to be dead after the Americans opened fire on a fleeing guard. In a spontaneous revenge action between 39 and 50 guards were shot and this photo shows probably the moment before the execution.

German prisoners of war in Canada, 1940

German prisoners return to their camp after a workday on the fields . The work carried out did not take place under duress and was rewarded with 20 cents a day.

German prisoners after a failed escape attempt in the USA, 1940

The German prisoner of war Manuel Fischer after a failed escape from Canada into the United States. On the right, an officer of the Immigration Department, Max Andrzejewski. The photo was taken at International Falls in Minnesota.

German prisoners of war in Canada, 1940

At the station of Quebec German soldiers climb in a train, which will take them to internment camps inland.

German soldiers in a prison camp in Canada, 1940

A group of 8,000 German prisoners who were interned in Canada. They are playing chess to kill the time.

German soldiers leave a British ship, 1941

German soldiers, who were to go to Germany as part of a prison exchange, are obliged to leave the ship S.S. Dinard again. The departure of the two "Mercy Ships" in Newhaven, which was to bring sick and wounded prisoners home, had previously been canceled.

German soldier in American captivity, 1944

A German soldier captured at Anzio by a patrol eats an American ration.

Portrait of a German child-soldier in American captivity during the last days of WWII, 1945, (b/w photo)

By the end of World War II, members of the Hitler Youth were taken into the army at increasingly younger ages,

German prisoners of war in a camp of the Allies, 1945

German soldiers in a makeshift camp at Remagen. The prisoners have no shelter against the weather, just holes in the ground and blankets.

German prisoners in an American prison camp, 1945

German soldiers in a outdoor camp.

German soldiers in an Allied prisoner of war camp, 1945, (b/w photo)

German prisoners of war in an Allied camp, 1945

Prisoners of war in a prison camp operated by the Allies in eastern France.

A Convoy of German Prisoners of War Marching Westwards, 1945

Soldiers of the German Wehrmacht pass advancing American troops in their way into war captivity. The prisoners are marching on the median strip of the motorway near the town of Giessen.