POW's

Jim O · #1 (**permalink**) April 29th, 2008, 12:00 PM

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German soldiers in Soviet captivity. Doubtful that many returned home alive.

Jim O · #2 (**permalink**) April 29th, 2008, 12:07 PM

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Above: POW's being led off a ship blindfolded. Likely survivors of a sunken U-boat.

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More prisoners from a sunken U-boat.

cyberia · #3 (**permalink**) June 4th, 2008, 01:42 PM

A Russian prisoner is searched moments after his capture

cyberia · #4 (**permalink**) June 4th, 2008, 10:56 PM

A rather famous photo of a French solider taken prisoner in the Western Campaign 1940

cyberia · #5 (**permalink**) June 9th, 2008, 09:49 PM

Captured British and French troops at Dunkirk

Jim O · #6 (**permalink**) July 1st, 2008, 02:04 AM

At left, a column of Soviet prisoners of war, under German guard, marches away from the front. Place uncertain, July 1, 1941.

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German soldiers guard Soviet prisoners of war marching to camps. Soviet Union, 1941.

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A German soldier guards Soviet prisoners of war at the Uman camp in the Ukraine. Soviet Union, August 14, 1941.

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Germans guard prisoners in the Rovno camp for Soviet prisoners of war. Rovno, Poland, after June 22, 1941.

Jim O · #7 (**permalink**) July 1st, 2008, 02:07 AM

SS officers posing in front of a newly arrived transport of Soviet prisoners of war. Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, 1941.

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Soviet prisoners of war receiving their meager rations. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war died in German custody, mostly from malnutrition and exposure. Rovno, Poland, 1941.

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Soviet prisoners of war arrive at the Majdanek camp, Poland.

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Dugouts, which served as living quarters for prisoners in Stalag 319--a German-built camp for Soviet prisoners of war. Chelm, Poland, between 1941 and 1944.

Jim O · #8 (**permalink**) July 1st, 2008, 02:12 AM

Soviet prisoners of war interrogated by German soldiers upon arrival at a prison camp. Lida, Poland, 1941.

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Photograph from a series taken by a guard in the Soviet POW camp of Belzen bei Bergen, and numbered in Roman numerals by the American officer, Lt. van Otten. The camp held approximately 10,000 Soviet POWs.

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Soviet prisoners of war wait for food in Stalag 8C. Zagan, Poland, February 1942. Note how young the one on the left appears to be.

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Columns of Soviet prisoners of war. Soviet Union, September 15, 1942.

Jim O · #9 (**permalink**) July 1st, 2008, 02:17 AM

Wounded Soviet prisoners of war await medical attention. Baranovichi, Poland, wartime.

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Wounded Soviet prisoners of war. Baranovichi, Poland, wartime.

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Soviet prisoners of war, survivors of the Majdanek camp, at the camp's liberation. Poland, July 1944.

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Two malnourished Soviet prisoners of war, survivors of the Hemer prisoner of war camp in western Germany. Hemer, Germany, April 29, 1945.

Wustenfuchs · #10 (**permalink**) July 3rd, 2008, 07:18 PM

Japanese POWs, date and location unknown.

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