Kriegsgefangenen Mannschafts Stamlager VIIA

**pitfighter** · 06-21-2014, 08:30 AM

Second from last photo is graphic - please be aware before scrolling down.

I was given 8 photos from the liberation of this camp - (Edited, thank you for the help gents.)
Nothing too exciting - but may be of interest reference-wise for collectors/historians here.
Not my area of collecting (I collect old pictures of firearms in use or training as part of my small-arms collection) - but someone who knew I collected "War photos" passed them on to me.

Soldiers looking very relieved, a few pictures of the camp - some dead Luftwaffe guards.
Date on (Owl Okl) Photos Dec 30 1945 - thru - Jan 14 1946
*Apologies for the poor quality - the originals are a little soft on focus, and look to be reprints from a positive, or used negative. I don't know anymore about these pictures, sorry.

**Wagriff** · 06-21-2014, 09:06 AM

I would post it just under the "After the Battle" section, as it isn't a Concentration Camp, but rather simply a POW camp. Why are there dead Luftwaffe guards bodies? Did they kill them? I can't imagine that the guards would have fought to defend the camp or anything. How odd, hey? I look forward to seeing your photos!

**CARL** · 06-21-2014, 01:31 PM

I will move this thread to the appropriate forum - "After The Battle".

Please post your images on this thread, so as to keep everything in the correct place.

Regards,

Carl

**pitfighter** · 06-21-2014, 06:35 PM

Thanks - I have put pics in first post in thread.
Hope they are of interest.
It seemed right to post them as a group, as they were found, and kept for sixty years.

Pit.