Prisoners of war

A German prisoner of war, taken near Butgenbach, Belgium by soldiers of the 26th Division, First Army, United States Army, during the Battle of the Bulge.

Soviet tommy gunner and Japanese P.O.W. at a former aircraft plant now being converted to an automobile and truck repair plant in Pyongyang. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Koreans cheer MacArthur for releasing prisoners from Japanese jails. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Captured Nazi officers and crew are marched to barracks in Charleston, South Carolina. They were captured by the Coast Guard cutter U.S.S. Icarus off the Atlantic coast. From: Sidney W. Souers Papers.

Two captured Nazi officers aboard the U.S.S. Icarus off Charleston, South Carolina. They are from a captured submarine. From: Sidney W. Souers Papers.

Adm. Sidney W. Souers (center) with captured Nazi officer aboard the U.S.S. Icarus.

Adm. Sidney W. Souers and other officers question a captured Nazi officer on the U.S.S. Icarus. Adm. Souers is at the far right and the Nazi officer at far left.

A captured German Nazi officer aboard the U.S.S. Icarus off Charleston, South Carolina. From: Sidney W. Souers Papers.

German prisoners in France after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

German prisoners from World War I working on docks at LeHavre, France. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.