Verenigde Staten. German prisoners of Western Front.

Verenigde Staten. German prisoners of Western Front. In the six months following the landings in Normandy on Jun 6, 1944, armies of the Allied Expeditionary Force took 749,000 German prisoners on the Western Front. This drawing illustrates the number of enemy soldiers who gave up to the French Forces of the Interior and to each of the seven armies that are hammering toward victory over the forces of aggression in this area. The hundred thousands of prisoners taken on the Eastern Front, in Italy and other areas are not included.