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  • shoes, slippers, child's, handmade 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.

  • GERMAN PRISONERS ON WALCHEREN GERMAN PRISONERS ON WALCHEREN

    part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Goodchild A (P/O)

    Among the prisoners taken on Walcheren was this Dutch woman. She is seen here in this R.A.F photograph with her husband, a German solder, whom she refused to leave. She marched with the German prisoners to the Prisoner of War cages.

  • GERMAN PRISONERS ON WALCHEREN GERMAN PRISONERS ON WALCHEREN

    part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Goodchild A (P/O)

    A general view of the scene as German prisoners were marched off on Walcheren.

  • SCOTS TROOPS FREE ALLIED PRISONERS FROM STALAG SCOTS TROOPS FREE ALLIED PRISONERS FROM STALAG

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

    A half-starved Russian limping out of the newly liberated Stalag XIB prison. He is wearing the striped prison uniform.

  • THE LIBERATION OF STALAG IIB THE LIBERATION OF STALAG IIB

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

    Some of the British Prisoners of War liberated from Stalag IIB. From left to right: Private Smyth of Downham, captured at Cherbourg in 1944; Private Ryan of Bradford, captured at Hertogenbosch, 1944; Corporal Beardmore of Cheadle, captured at Arnhem,...

  • OFLAG IVC PRISONER OF WAR CAMP AT COLDITZ CASTLE, GERMANY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR OFLAG IVC PRISONER OF WAR CAMP AT COLDITZ CASTLE, GERMANY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

    part of "COLDITZ CASTLE" (photographs)

    Aerial view of Colditz castle.

  • SCENES AT STALAG VIIIB (LAMSDORF) PRISONER OF WAR CAMP, GERMANY 1942 - 1945 SCENES AT STALAG VIIIB (LAMSDORF) PRISONER OF WAR CAMP, GERMANY 1942 - 1945

    part of "BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY 1939 - 1945" (photographs) Made by: Lawrence W (W/O)

    The use of a cooker constructed out of tins from Red Cross parcels, called a "blower" in camp slang. Although efficient, they could only be used outside the huts.

  • THE GERMAN ARMY IN RUSSIA 1941 - 1945 THE GERMAN ARMY IN RUSSIA 1941 - 1945

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

    A column of Russian prisoners captured by the Germans on the Russian front.