Jakob Nacken, the tallest German soldier of Second World War, 1944
On one side towered a 7ft 3in (2.21m) German man-mountain who quit his job with …
Tag: Prisoners of War
Interned German sailors in North Carolina seen through old photographs, 1917
Once the United States abandoned neutrality and declared war on Germany in April…
The raids and brutal reprisals of World War Two through rare photographs, 1942
The events of 1942 were crucial in the way that World War Two played out. The fi…
A concentration camp victim identifies a SS guard, 1945
The picture depicts a liberated Russian inmate pointing an identifying and accus…
Yang Kyoungjong, the only known soldier to have fought on three sides of a war, 1944
He was Korean – captured by the Japanese and pressed to fight the Soviets, captu…
The story of two Soviet prisoners of war who were killed in the Murmansk foothills, 1941
It was the night of June 29, 1941, in the foothills of Murmansk, Soviet Union. C…
A Dutch woman entering military captivity with her husband, a German soldier, 1944
A Dutch woman is seen here with her husband, a German soldier that she had marri…
A mother shows a picture of her son to a returning prisoner of war, 1947
These iconic photographs were taken in 1947 at Vienna’s Southern Railway Station…
Under British military escort, two captured Luftwaffe crewmen walk out of the London Underground, 1940
Under British military escort, two German Luftwaffe crewmen, an Unteroffizier (S…
Leonard Siffleet about to be beheaded with a sword by a Japanese soldier, 1943
Leonard Siffleet was an Australian Special Forces radio operator, sent on a miss…
American airman Dewey Wayne Waddell, held prisoner in Vietnam, 1967
Downed U.S. airman Dewey Waddell was taken captive by Vietnamese communist fight…
Emaciated British soldiers after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945
Five emaciated former prisoners of war sitting on the steps of an ambulance in S…
A German prisoner of war escorted by a Soviet soldier, Stalingrad, 1943
In this photograph, a Red Army soldier is seen marching a German soldier into ca…
German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945
The image shows the faces of German prisoners of war, captured by Americans, wat…
Photographs show Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili captured by the Germans, 1941
Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin's elder son, served in the Red Army during the Second…
German prisoners of war packed into the Nonant le Pin prisoner camp, 1944
All these German prisoners of war were captured following the Falaise Pocket bat…
The Defiance: Himmler and a prisoner locked in a staring contest, 1941
Heinrich Himmler looks at a young Soviet prisoner of war during an official visi…
Japanese troops using prisoners of war for target practice, 1942
The Japanese treatment of prisoners of war in World War II was barbaric. The men…
Adenauer returns to Cologne after negotiating the release of the last prisoners of war from Soviet Union, 1955
The mother of a prisoner thanks Konrad Adenauer upon his return from Moscow on S…
Burst of Joy: The sad story behind the iconic picture, 1973
After spending more than five years in a North Vietnamese camp, Lt. Col. Robert …