50,000 German Prisoners In Allied Internment Camp 1945

Stock Footage Link: Images of the Rheinwiesenlager. Various scenes of German prisoners in a Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosure (PWTE) camp in Allied occupied Germany in 1945. Shows German prisoner with one leg missing or leg injured on crutches. CU image of German Officer wearing Luftwaffe Flak Lieutenant’s four pocket tunic. Images of women and young boy in Allied internment camp. Shows injured German soldier being carried into camp. Shows group of young boys with Priest being directed into internment camp. Shows shirtless man with cap ordering and pushing prisoners away from enclosure fence; probably a member of the German Military Police (Wehrmachtordnungstruppe) the U.S. Army used to maintain order in the camp. Shows more German prisoners arriving at internment camp. Group of German officers leaving a building and walking around the grounds of an estate followed by an armed U.S. MP. One civilian in group of German officers.