Aerial photograph of an American Army prisoner-of-war camp in Brilon, Germany.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 51687

Overview

Caption: Aerial photograph of an American Army prisoner-of-war camp in Brilon, Germany.

Original caption reads: "The camp, 75 miles northeast of the Rhine River city of Cologne, holds some of the 316,930 Nazi troops captured in the Ruhr pocket by American forces. It was announced April 22 that a total of 2,260,156 prisoners had been taken by the Allies on the Western Front since "D-Day" (June 6, 1944)."

U.S. Signal Corps photo ETO-HQ-45-33419
Date: 1945 April 19
Locale: Brilon, [North Rhine-Westphalia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Joseph Eaton

Keyword: PHOTOGRAPHS (AERIAL) POW CAMPS POWS (GERMAN)
Photo Designation: PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- Capture of Nazi Criminals -- Internment/POW Camps