A British soldier leads a long file of Italian prisoners into a barbed wire enclosed detention area. They were captured during the battle for El-Alamein, in North Africa. 

Italian POWs

German SS guards, exhausted from their forced labor clearing the bodies of the dead, are allowed a brief rest by British soldiers but are forced to take it by lying face down in one of the empty mass graves. Bergen-Belsen, Northern Germany. - June 1945.

Brief rest

British infantry and tanks advance through the laid-back small town of Reviers in Normandy, France; June 11, 1944.
