Title

Exchange of prisoners of war, Trelleborg, Sweden, September 1944. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Exchange of prisoners of war, Trelleborg, Sweden, September 1944. Allied POWs at the station on their way to being repatriated. During World War II the Swedish Red Cross brokered a series of agreements between the Germans and the Allies for exchanges of sick and wounded prisoners of war via Sweden. From the Trelleborgs Museum Collection.
Sweden, Trelleborgs Museum

Date

1996

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Trelleborgs Museum

Reference

HRM19D65_306

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,3Mb (1,6Mb) / 16,6in x 11,8in / 4971 x 3539 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation people male man men walking sign Sweden guy railway skane station war railway station century platform train station prisoner soldiers soldier instructions concept B&W 1940s notice MONOCHROME returning rambling Forties military uniform pow dais World War II World War two WWII black & white black and white B W world war 2 Military personnel 20th century allied prisoner of war prisoners of war decade Second World War TGN WW2 repatriation photograph 2nd World War Historisk Bildbyrå Trelleborg Unknown photograph