Senegalese troops stand for inspection in Devil's Island, French Guiana. Men in uniform review the troops. An officer checks rifle of a soldier during the review. Man plays drum. Prisoners wake up and fold their bed nets in the morning. Breakfast is served to the prisoners. A prisoner brushes his teeth. Prisoners line up at prison yard for daily head count. A prison guard takes their attendance.
British and Australian prisoners of war line up on both the sides of a road to welcome a senior officer at a Japanese prison camp in World War II. Prisoners stand at attention as the motorcade passes through. The motorcade reaches a prison compound where a Japanese prison officer receives and greets the inspecting officer. Prisoners lined up outside the building. A photographer clicks pictures of the event.
Liberated United States prisoners (mostly military airmen) at POW camp called Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager (Stalag) VII A, located just North of Moosburg, Germany during World War II. The airmen cook food. Several are seen sunning themselves. Airmen seen shaving, shining shoes and cleaning clothes. A group of airmen around sign 'I Wanted Wings' and 'Luft 3'. These are some of the prisoners who were originally held at Stalag Luft III, in German Province of Lower Silesia, near the town of Sagan (now in Poland). (Note: Stalag Luft III is famous because the "Great Escape" took place there in March, 1944. Prisoners were forced to march from Sagan to Spremburg during the coldest winter in Germany in 50 years. There, they boarded a train of boxcars for a 3 day trip to Moosburg in January 1945, because the Russians were closing in. The addition of these prisoners to Stalag 7A, at Moosburg, led to serious overcrowding of the camp. On May 1, 1945, the New York Times reported that "The Fourteenth Armored Division liberated 110,000 Allied prisoners of war at Stalag 7A at Moosburg." This corrected an earlier report that 27,000 prisoners had been liberated.)
Stateville Correctional Center buildings and prisoners, in Crest Hill, Illinois, near Chicago. Prisoners come out of their prison cells, as they are unlocked sequentially in tiers starting with the upper and working down the cellblock of the penetentiary. Prisoners moving about the prison facility, along an external hallway and into landscaped area of lawn, flowers, and hedges. View inside a large roundhouse circular cellblock. Several prisoners are escorted singly to their cells. The center of the unit appears to be a large atrium. Overview of the entire facility shows several circular cellblocks and other buildings.
A U.S. Military policeman leans against his jeep in front of a small building in Béverce near Malmedy, Belgium during World War 2. Two German prisoners emerge from the building escorted by an armed American soldier. A military photographer passes to the left, in front of them, as two American military policemen escort another German prisoner (Otto Richard Struller) from the building. They each hold one of his arms. The prisoner is bareheaded. They pause and pose for a photographer (unseen). Closeup of the prisoner with MPs at his sides. Camera zooms in on prisoner, Struller. The MPs direct him to a waiting jeep. They all get in and drive away. Closeup of the jeep passing the camera. It drives away along a muddy road, past an overturned vehicle. (Note: The principal prisoner in this film, is Otto Richard Struller, a ballet dancer, who during the war served as a corporal with Panzerbrigade 150 unit Stielau/Stab solar, where he masqueraded as an American soldier behind the lines. He was executed, as a spy, on January 13, 1945 at the Palace of Justice in Huy, Belgium)
A heavily sandbagged British camp behind the front lines during Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. British ambulatory wounded entering the camp followed by German prisoners of war. Several British soldiers blinded (probably by mustard gas) being led by comrades.The German prisoners seated on the ground, surrounded by numerous British soldiers. A British officer offers a canteen of water to one of the German prisoners.Other British soldiers offer cigarettes to the prisoners. A British Sergeant handing identification papers back to German prisoners. British soldiers carrying wounded on stretchers into the camp. More German prisoners, including some wounded but ambulatory, being brought into the camp under guard.
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