A unique selection of photographs.
All of these rare photos have the same story as the war itself is dramatic – the soldiers are captured. And in each picture a whole cocktail of feelings: despair of some and joy of others, cowardice and heroism, determination and humility to destiny. In fact, every photo – reportage from the event, which allows through the decades to see people from that era.
We tried to choose photos that captured the brutality, propaganda or humiliation. If you capture the opponents tend to show interest to each other. But that was then… we must Not forget that in the camps the Nazis had starved to death and destroyed millions of Soviet soldiers. The fate of the Germans caught in the Soviet captivity, was generally more happy.
1. First aid to the injured pilot
2. First aid to the Soviet soldier
German soldiers assist the soldier of the red army.
3. Soviet fighter pilot in German captivity
Hero of the Soviet Union, major James I. Antonov, a fighter pilot in German captivity, surrounded by German pilots.
4. Capture
A captured Soviet soldier. USSR, 1942.
5. German prisoners of war
Red army soldiers taken prisoner by German soldiers.
6. Prisoners of war
German prisoners of war during the great Patriotic war.
7. The interrogation of a German prisoner of war
The interrogation of German sturmmann.
8. Soviet prisoners of war
The interrogation of Soviet prisoners of war during the great Patriotic war.
9. Removal of the population and prisoners of war in Nazi Germany
Removal of the population and prisoners of war for forced labor in Germany.
10. Before the execution
Soviet prisoners before a firing squad in 1941.
11. The interrogation of Soviet spy
Interrogation of arrested Soviet spy in a camouflage suit.
12. After the liberation from German captivity
Wounded Soviet soldiers after the liberation from German captivity.
13. Captured German soldiers and officers
German soldiers after Belgorod-Kharkov offensive operations.
14. Prisoners Romanians
Captured by the Romanians during the great Patriotic war.
15. Column of German prisoners of war
German prisoners of war. Germany, may, 1945.
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