Captured German Officers

[imntxs554]

German Officers being escorted away. The looks on there face I think there time is very limited. It looks like the War might be over when this was taken.

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[Bob Seijas]

They should be grinning from ear to ear... those are GIs, not Ivans.

[Flying10uk]

I believe that at the end of the war German service personnel did all they could to get captured by the Western Allies and not the Soviets out of fear of what may happen to them.

During the early 1950s my father was going out with an Austrian girl who had come to the U.K. to live with her mother just after the end of the War. My father and this girl were looking through a pile of the girl's family photographs and my father was very surprised when they came across a photo of a German soldier in full uniform. My father, naturally, asked the reason for it being with her family snap-shots and she explained that it was her father who had been killed during the war. She went onto explain that, being Austrian, he didn't have any choice on whether or not to join the German Armed Forces unless he wanted to end up in a Concentration Camp. I believe that after the girl's father had been killed her mother then married a British soldier and that was how she came to the U.K..

[matthanne1]

Looks like a couple NCOs behind the officers, too.

[Paul S.]

It looks a mixed bag that. The three in front look like overage staff officers, fourth one back, the younger bloke, appears to have a Luftwaffe eagle on his tunic. He's likely an officer as well since he's smoking and no NCO with half a brain is going to light up and have to share his smokes with officers - even his own.

[matthanne1]

'He's likely an officer as well since he's smoking and no NCO with half a brain is going to light up and have to share his smokes with officers - even his own.'

Going by what I thought are tresses. Good point, but at that moment I think for them the game is over, so new rules may apply. At a moment like that I'm sure they can see what kind of a leader they are, or were!

[Mark in Rochester]

Original caption: Under the watchful eyes of U.S. troops bearing bayonets, members of the Italo-German armistice commission in Morocco are rounded up to be taken to Fedala, north of Casablanca, on November 18, 1942. Commission members were surprised in American landing move. #

[imntxs554]

Thank You Mark in Rochester for finding a Caption to the photo I posted. I can always rely on you to find something on just about every picture I do post. Thanks

Frank

[25-5]

Question. Would the length of the bayonets not be a clue as to earlier in the War rather than later?

[browningautorifle]

on November 18, 1942.

Would the length of the bayonets not be a clue as to earlier in the War rather than later?

That IS early in the war...for the US.