Children wave to a truck-load of Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) as the men cross the border ...

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Accession Number UK2769
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film duplicate negative
Maker Stewart, Alexander
Place made Germany: Fallingbostel
Date made 21 April 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Children wave to a truck-load of Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) as the men cross the border into the Netherlands on their way to the transit camp in Belgium, from where they will be flown to Britain. Stalags 357 (in Oerbke) and XIb (in Fallingbostel), when overrun by units of the 2nd British Army, were found to be virtually Anzac prison camps. Many AIF men (some taken prisoner in Crete) and Australian and New Zealand Air Force men were freed.