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• ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE WESTERN DESERT, JANUARY 1941

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keating G (Capt)

  Italian soldiers surrendering to an Australian infantryman during the attack on Bardia, Libya.

• STALAG LUFT 1 PRISONER OF WAR CAMP, BARTH, GERMANY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ELDER DOUGLAS (SERGEANT)" (photographs) Made by: German official photographer

  General view of the camp.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  German navy prisoners, blindfolded, stand by the dockside whilst being given instructions by Royal Navy intelligence officer.

• white plans for Colditz glider

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  First plans drawn in pencil on artist's paper for the 'Colditz Cock' by Flight Lieutenant Bill Goldfinch. The plans were also later used for building the 'Spirit of Colditz', a replica for the Channel Four television series on Colditz. At the beginning...

• bierstein, German

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  The bierstein was reputedly made during the Second World War by a Waffen SS prisoner of war.

• skull cap, knitted

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  Woollen hat made and worn during the Second World War by an Italian prisoner of war while working as a gardener.

• teapot

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  This damaged teapot was used during the Second World War by Miss E McIntyre and five others in her dormitory at Liebenau civilian internment camp, Germany. The pot was repaired by an internee using wire due to the unavailablity of glue. Miss McIntyre,...

• model, The Colditz Glider

  (souvenirs and ephemera) Made by: Airfix 1974

  Unassembled commemorative flying model of the Colditz Glider, that Airfix produced at the time of the BBC Television Series in 1974.

• pink plans for Colditz glider

  (souvenirs and ephemera) 1945

  Plans for the construction of an escape glider (the 'Colditz Cock') based on the designs of Flight-Lieutenant L J E Goldfinch produced during the Second World War whilst he was a prisoner of war in Oflag IVC, Colditz Camp (Saxony, Germany). At the...

• shoes, slippers, child's, handmade

  (souvenirs and ephemera) 1946

  A pair of child's slippers, handmade from rope (in red and beige with red pom-poms) by an unidentified German prisoner of war (POW) at Mortimer Camp near Reading, Berkshire (Camp No 88), circa 1946.