Recently liberated Soviet POWs enjoy American food rations.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 51168

Overview

Caption: Recently liberated Soviet POWs enjoy American food rations.

Original Caption: "Russian prisoners of war liberated in Hemer, Germany, by the Ninth US Army celebrated May Day, 1945 by holding a banquet of 'C' rations. Infantrymen of the 75th Infantry Division are shown handing out boxes of the rations for the banquet. There were 22,000 Russians in the Hemer camp, 9,000 of them hosptial cases suffering from tuberculosis, dysentery, typhus and malnutrition."
Date: 1945 May 01
Locale: Hemer, [Prussian Westphalia; 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: CELEBRATIONS CRATES/BOXES FOOD (DISTRIBUTION) HOLIDAYS (MAY DAY) LIBERATION DAY POW CAMPS POWS (SOVIET) RUSSIANS/SOVIETS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: General -- Liberated Prisoners/Medical Care