"For you the war is over". Period photos of German POWs

[HPL2008]

Can you recognize the arm patch?

The arm patch in post #88 is a little hard to see, but almost certainly a Foreign Volunteer.

I'm a bit late to the party, but it is the Georgien arm patch.

[stuka f]

Thanks HPL!

[stuka f]

This picture was taken in Antwerp, were prisoners (Germans and Flemish ex volunteers, and anyone suspected of collaboration) were put into the cages of the animals (with out animals!) and showed to the public.

[Grimebox]

U boot P.o.W’s

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Off to an uncertain future. I wonder how many came back

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Bruneval raid prisoners ( plus a souvenir)

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Men of 9 Commando, with a German prisoner, after their raid on the Garigliano Estuary defences, Dec 1943

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Another boy soldier, trousers up to his armpits!

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This soldier went into captivity with his Dutch wife (or at least tried to)

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I suspect that the photographer captured the exact moment this young soldiers bowels released