The canteen of the german POW camp in Fort Knox/Kentucky. For their work (fruit- and cotton-picking etc.) the german POWs got vouchers with a value of 80 cents per day to buy tobacco, chocolate and other goods.

POW camp Ft. Knox, Kentucky

In the port of New York City the arriving german POWs get informed about the surrender of Germany, May 8th 1945.

'Nazis quit war'

German soldiers return from russian war captivity to the debris of Berlin, late 1945. In contrary to their comrades in american captivity these men returned with nothing and mostly to nothing. On the other hand the soldiers on the picture could consider themselves lucky for returning in 1945, the last german POWs returned from Russia in autumn of 1955.