File:Hundreds of German POWs.jpg

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English: IWM caption : Crossing the Rhine 24 -31 March 1945 : Hundreds of German prisoners of war sitting together in a compound after their units had been overrun in the Allied advance. The large numbers of POWs falling into Allied hands during the final months of the campaign in North-West Europe formed a major administrative problem.
Deutsch: Deutsche Soldaten vor dem Abtransport in ein alliiertes Kriegsgefangenenlager, März 1945.
Français : Prisonniers de guerre de la Wehrmacht, 1945. La défaite en 1945.
עברית: הסוף: חיילי ורמאכט נכנעים ב-1945.
Ελληνικά: Το τέλος: Εκατοντάδες στρατιώτες της Βέρμαχτ σε συμμαχικό στρατόπεδο αιχμαλώτων, Μάρτιος 1945.
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This photograph BU 2332 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-30)
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Norris (Sgt), No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

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