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From left to right: tabs for private, lance corporal, major of the Japanese Army

Published: 17 November 2010

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From left to right, Japanese danglers of the 1940s: Nurse Medal, Order of the Rising Sun, VII class; Paulownia Order, V class.

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German Chancellor and Russian Defense Minister discuss the repatriation of German detainees from the USSR, 1955

War prisoners of POW camp № 286 introducing handmade gifts for Stalin

Meeting of last POWs arrived to FGR from USSR after Adenauer’s visit to USSR, 1955

Metal tip-up casket, made by German war prisoners

Private possessions of war prisoner K. Fritzsche, 1943-1949. Given by K. Fritzsche to the memorial German anti-fascist museum in 2001

From left to right, Japanese danglers of the 1940s: Nurse Medal, Order of the Rising Sun, VII class; Paulownia Order, V class.

From left to right: tabs for private, lance corporal, major of the Japanese Army

Japanese soldier’s talisman

Boots of a Japanese soldier

Private possessions of Japanese POWs

Romanian POWs working in a joinery shop, Yuzhsky detention camp #165, Ivanovo region, May 1943

Conference room of Romanian POWs anti-fascist conference, USSR, 1941

“To the soldiers and officers of ‘Cuneese’”. A leaflet calling to stop resistance and join the Red Army

Hitler and Mussolini at the Eastern Front, 1942

A leaflet for Italian soldiers, Russian translation, December 1942

A group of captured Italians from Celere division, Stalingrad front, 1943

A Red Army leaflet from the 1939 Finnish campaign

A sketch for a leaflet for the Finnish soldiers, B. Porokov, USSR, 1941

“Germans rob and eat everything in Finland while the Finnish nation starves” A Red Army leaflet, 1940s

Decoration of the Finnish Army

Finnish POWs

Decoration of the Hungarian Army

Service record book of Hungarian POW

One of the earth houses built by German POW of camp #62, Novokhopersk city, Voronezh region, USSR, 1940s

POWs drag a cart with bodies of dead fellow prisoners to a grave site, USSR, 1940s

Russian girls liberated by the Red Army at an assembly point awaiting repatriation, Poland, 1945

Characteristics on the work at a repatriate battalion of a former Russian POW Vlas Pastukh after he was liberated from German prison camp #277, 1945

Composition of a Russian anti-fascist conspiracy in Buchenwald death camp, 1945

Simakov N.S., one of the leaders of Russian anti-fascist conspiracy in Buchenwald death camp

Nazirov B.G., former prisoner of Buchenwald death camp, member of Soviet anti-fascist conspiracy, 1950s

Hand-grenade, Molotov cocktail and a radio receiver set fabricated by prisoners of Buchenwald death camp while preparing an uprising

Russian POWs digging their own graves before execution, July 1941

“Bolshevism unmasked”, Berlin, 1937. Anti-communist poster in the Reichstag

Soviet POW column formed of soldiers of 2d attack army, on the way to assembly station near Volkhov, June 1942

Soviet POWs at Volkswagen auto assembly plant, Germany, 1942-1945

Pass blanks of Soviet POWs to enter German factories, 1942-1945

Labor card, Germany, 1942-1945, contains input-output information with expiry date for a POW worker

Soviet soldiers carrying wounded captive, 1943

Bodies of prisoners of Russen death camp (Stalag VIII-B), Lamsdorf, Germany, 1945

Entrance to Russen death camp (Stalag VIII-B), Lamsdorf, Germany, 1945

Column of Jewish women under police escort of Lithuanian community defense volunteer squad, 1941

From left to right: tabs for private, lance corporal, major of the Japanese Army

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