The command of the Allies decided to transfer these captured nurses back to the Germans. During a radio exchange, an armistice was reached, and with the participation of Captain Quentin Roosevelt, of the 1st US Infantry Division, son of Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, the nurses were placed in 2 ambulances and returned to the German side near the village of Balleroy area. This incident was covered by the press and served as propaganda for good treatment of German prisoners of war. Meantime, the Army was glad to get rid of them, since they were non-combatants, and would have been a nuisance to hold them...

Return of nurses

German nurses captured by American Forces in the hospital of the city of Cherbourg, France.

Harmless POWs

Hands in air, German prisoners (left) pass the snow covered field at Five Corners, near Malmedy, Belgium on Jan. 18, 1945 where American prisoners of war were moved down by German machine gun fire. At right, Yanks stand in the field beside the bodies.