Places | |
---|---|
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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Children wave to a truck-load of Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) as the men cross the border ...
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.