12 Photographs of Second Camp Stalag 3A

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Title

12 Photographs of Second Camp Stalag 3A

Description

Photo 1 captioned 'View of Sleeping Bunks', shows three tiers of bunks.
Photo 2 captioned 'Table and Bench Seat' shows two men at the table, one seated.
Photo 3 is of a church, captioned 'Converted Hut by Russian POW for Worshipping'.
Photo 4 is of rows of tents with men squatting and eating, captioned 'View of American Compound'.
Photo 5 is looking through barbed wire at prisoners walking in a circle, captioned 'Daily Exercise walking perimeter of compound'.
Photo 6 is of five people in uniform, one man has an accordion, captioned 'Group of Russian's [sic] soon after our release'.
Photo 7 is a cemetery, captioned 'View of Local Cemetery. Attended funeral, Basingstoke lad buried here'.
Photo 8 is a tented area, fence with washing on it and people walking about, captioned 'Another view of American compound'.
Photo 9 is of four men using a pole to carry a large cooking pot, captioned 'Soup ration for 250 men +F'.
Photo 10 is of a football match watched by large numbers of prisoners, captioned 'Playing Fields'.
Photo 11 is of prisoners and American troops captioned 'First Americans to arrive speaking of there [sic] plans for us'.
Photo 12 is of two topless men with their hands raised, by a wall. Two soldiers with rifles are standing facing them. A third soldier is standing by the prisoners. It is captioned 'Photograph in camera when found'.

Date

1945

Temporal Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Language

Type

Format

12 b/w photographs from a scrapbook (two to a page)

Rights

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Identifier

SHookerFJ1805487v10013,
SHookerFJ1805487v10014,
SHookerFJ1805487v10015,
SHookerFJ1805487v10016,
SHookerFJ1805487v10017,
SHookerFJ1805487v10018

Collection

Citation

“12 Photographs of Second Camp Stalag 3A,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed November 5, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/19187.

Item Relations

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