Filter results

Category

Media

Creators

Subject period

Places

Events

Associated person/organisation

Materials

Themes

Keywords

• Final Stages of the German War: Twenty Thousand Prisoners in the Town of Worms

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1945

  image: a view across Worms town square which is completely packed with tens of thousands of German prisoners of war, contained within a wire perimeter fence, guarded by American soldiers.

• Final Stages of the German War: White Flags and Liberated French Prisoners in Tauberbischofsheim

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1945

  image: a American military jeep is seen driving into the town square where there are already tanks and jeeps parked. American soldiers, liberated French prisoners and civilians stand around on the street, with white flags flying from the buildings above.

• An Advanced Cage For German Prisoners, 1917

  (art) Made by: Hill, Adrian 1917

  image: a group of German prisoners of war stand listlessly behind a high barbed-wire fence. Most stand around in overcoats, their hands in their pockets.

• Study for 'Motor Transport Troops and German Prisoners. Chaulnes, Autumn 1918'

  (art) Made by: Dodgson, John A 1918

  image: A crowded scene with British soldiers and German prisoners amongst a construction site. Three British soldiers, one German prisoner and a small dog stand in the centre of the composition next to a motorcycle with debris in the foreground. The...

• British Escapers Brought Back in Chains to Mecheria Internment Camp, Algeria

  (art) Made by: Cook, John Kingsley 1942

  image: A line of six British prisoners trudge through the desert. They move from right to left, their bare heads bent and linked together by a long chain attached to their wrists. They are accompanied by three horsemen and a soldier on foot. The guards...

• Exterior of a German Prison Camp, 1941

  (art) Made by: Mitelle, Louis 1941

  image: A line of POWs in prison uniforms push wheelbarrows of rubble in between rows of huts. In the foreground there is a German soldier brandishing a wooden club, and two rows of barbed wire fencing.

• Sick Parade at a German Prison Camp in Pomerania, 1942

  (art) Made by: Mitelle, Louis 1942

  image: Injured POWs wearing bandages and slings stream past two German guards, one holding a raised club, standing with their backs to the artist. In the background there is a first aid hut and a Swastika flying above the barbed wire fence.

• Interior of a German Prison Camp, 1942

  (art) Made by: Mitelle, Louis 1942

  image: Despairing Allied soldiers sit around a candle-lit table in a POW hut. Many sit with their heads in their hands as one man stands to cut a loaf of bread. They are watched by a passing guard.

• A Pomeranian Prison Camp, 1941

  (art) Made by: Mitelle, Louis 1941

  image: A view down a gangway in a hut in a POW camp. Dejected prisoners in military uniform sit on the bunks which are three levels high and laundry hangs from the beams above. On the floor a group of prisoners sit huddled together in a group.

• British Prisoners-of-War after Rescue from Kutching, Borneo

  (art) Made by: Rafty, Tony

  image: a POW with a bandaged foot and hand lies on a bed in a tent wearing striped pyjamas. In the bed next to him another prisoner in similar pyjamas is leaning out to light a cigarette for a bare-chested man who sits between them.