📷🧵 6. "Show me your papers!"
We associate that demand with authoritarian or totalitarian regimes. Below are some Danish WW2 id cards, including false ones. The far left photo shows a #resistance member's false vs real papers. #History #WW2 #Occupation #Nazis #NeverAgain #Denmark #WW2photos
Some wintry scenes from around the area of Stalag XVIIIA Wolfsburg, Austria #TheUndefeated #WW2pics #WW2photos
Some more photos acquired while researching my book. Lots of larger POW camps built theatres as an outlet for the prisoners. Those who didn’t have to work had lots of time on their hands and often crafted elaborate sets, props and costumes. #TheUndefeated #WW2pics #WW2photos
September 1944: Oscha. Fischer (first from the right) with those members of the 1. Kompanie, SS-PzAA1, who survived the Falaise Pocket.
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British or Commonwealth POWs in North Africa probably some time between Feb 41 and Oct 42. Someone may be able to ID a unit from the number on the universal carrier which the Germans have commandeered. 2nd photo shows prisoners being searched. #WW2photos #photofriday
Mixture of (I think) British and French POWs. The men were often herded into these temporary sorts of enclosures as they were marched from France to camps in Germany and occupied Poland. #ww2 #ww2photos #POW1940
Incorrectly identified as Indian troops by the seller - these are most likely French Moroccan or Algerian troops captured in France 1940. #photofriday #WW2photos
Captured men - going by the visible cap badge possibly from the Royal Sussex regiment. The 2nd, 6th and 7th battalions all saw action in France in May/June 1940 with the two territorial battalions (6th, 7th) suffering heavy casualties. The remainder of the 2nd battalion was later to form the core of the 10th Parachute battalion in 1943. #WW2photos #WW2images #prisonersofwar
Captured men - possibly from the Royal Sussex regiment. The 2nd, 6th & 7th battalions saw action in France in May/June 1940. The two territorial btns (6th, 7th) suffered heavy casualties. The 2nd barn later formed the core of the 10th Parachute btn in 1943. #WW2photos #WW2images #prisonersofwar
