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History > 20th century > WW2 (1939-1945) > USA, World > Timeline in pictures > Prisoners
Released Prisoners Of War Closeup of the haunting stare of an emaciated American war prisoner as he lies on cot after his liberation from German prison camp by Allied forces.
Location: Limburg, Germany Date taken: April 1945
Photographer: John Florea Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=09e588a9d2813695
American soldiers guarding German prisoners captured near the town of Le Gast during the fight for the Normandy area.
Location: Normandy, France Date taken: August 1944
Photographer: Frank Scherschel Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/fecad6e2891b05ba.html
Eric Sutherland Lomax 1919-2012
The experience of three and a half years of slave labour and torture as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, on the notorious Burma-Siam railway, dominated the rest of the life of Eric Lomax.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/09/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/09/
French woman, stepping forward from jeering crowd, curses captured German soldier who is being marched through town at gunpoint by member of the French Resistance.
Location: Saint Mihiel, France
Date taken: September 1944 Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=30a55f81998216d1
French girl vents anger by kicking at a passing German prisoner on his way to confinement after being captured.
Location: Toulon, France
Date taken: September 26, 1944 Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=39f0fe7b71c338d6
Alfred Krupp, head of the great armament plant at Essen, being taken in by American soldiers for questioning in the waning days of WWII.
Location: Germany Date taken: 1945
Photographer: William Vandivert Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=d30ee13ee17d7cfd
Industrialist Alfred Krupp standing in front of George Harcourt [English Painter, 1868-1948] portrait of his family while under house arrest for alleged war crimes at his ancestral home, the Villa Hugel.
Location: Essen, Germany Date taken: July 17, 1945
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White Life Images
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Ernst Tengelmann, the largest independent coal mine owner in Germany, under house arrest for his Nazi activites... (sic)
Location: Essen, Germany Date taken: July 17, 1945
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=587a5b6879dd13da
German prisoner-of-war camps Colditz Castle
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/world/europe/15burn.html
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