Allied POWS in Germany, World War II
This photo was taken sometime during World War II (1939-1945) showing Allied prisoners using the swimming pool at Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany. This POW camp for captured Air Force personnel was made famous by the 1963 film The Great Escape.
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These are Allied POWs in Frankfurt, Germany in 1945 right after the war ended. They are lined up to shower or perhaps to be checked out by medical personnel before being released.
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The box he is carrying says "Second half of rations", but I suspect he used the empty box to hold his meager possessions.
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He turns and gives us a dirty look. The photographer was Margaret Bourke White for LIFE magazine, and he probably didn't like a woman being allowed to see the naked men.
We end with this photo taken in April 1945 of French POWs taking a shower in the railway station at Orsay on their return from Germany.
7 comments:
Many were "dressed" the same way when they were murdered.
You best believe if the Nazis had won the war these American POWS would have either been enslaved or exterminated, as Hitler viewed Americans as being from a nation of mongrel filth.
Nice collection of derrieres.
#3 You can tell by the uniform that the camp had already been liberated by the Allies.
Ironically Southern segregationists were all about the Nazis.
Mon oncle, qui à servi dans l’armee de l’air française, a été capturé par les Allemandes en 1940 et envoyé travailler dans dans une usine à Mannheim, ou il a survécu à plusieurs raids aériens et à une tempête de feu. Il est rentré en France après la prise de Mannheim par les troupes alliés en progression, en mars 1945.
-Beau Mec à Deauville
I am shocked by the presence of Black soldiers. This is an excellent series. Thank you.
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