A group of German prisoners stand on the beach of Normandy on June 14, 1944 waiting for transportation to England by landing craft.

Going to England

German prisoners, 914th Regiment of the 352nd Volksgrenadier Division, who surrendered to the US Army in the town of Merzig, in the Saarland, Germany. Spring 1945.

The end for them...

La Libération : l’euphorie passagère...
On one side, the German POWs; on the other side, the grinning GI joined by the grateful Frenchman - probably a member of the Resistance.