A group of liberated slave labourers enjoy cigarettes given to them by British paratroopers. The 'SU' painted on their clothes indicates that they are Russians.

Forced Labour Conscription

A British soldier with a Bren gun provides cover for his comrade while he digs a foxhole during the battle of El Alamein in North Africa. 


Dig in the sand

Led by a British soldier (MP), a line of German prisoners of war is marched along a barbed-wire barricaded lane as they arrive at a POW camp somewhere in England, in June 1944, following their capture in Allied assault operations on the French Normandy coast.