Title

Soviet prisoners marching along a road, Russia, 1942. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Allied prisoners marching along a road , Russia, 1942. Between 4 and 5.7 million Russian soldiers were captured by the Germans in World War II. The Nazis regarded them as racially inferior and their treatment was extremely harsh, with many forced to work as slave labour. An estimated 2.7 to 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in German captivity. A print from Signal, Febuary 1942. Signal was a magazine published by the German Third Reich from 1940 through 1945.

Date

1942

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B96_206

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,1Mb (1,9Mb) / 16,4in x 11,9in / 4917 x 3560 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation Germany road people male man men street German country guy media color colour lane avenue aeroplane aircraft plane airplane column pillar pillars war front location century Russia Russian marching prisoner soldiers soldier invasion wartime concept 1940s captured Army warfare Forties air Transport USSR pow Soviet Union World War II World War two aerial photography WWII Nazi world war 2 Soviet 20th century Nazis Nazism prisoner of war prisoners of war propaganda Art Media decade eastern front Russian Front Second World War TGN WW2 photograph 2nd World War Unknown Union of Soviet Socialist Republics photograph