Showing posts with label POW Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label POW Italy. Show all posts

Monday, August 11, 2014

Restoration of the Railway Tracks by POWs

Restoration of the railway tracks manifested by prisoners of war after an air raid at Ostiglia, Italy. What looks like a lunar landscape, was actually taken in the middle of summer (July 1944) by Reichsbahn photographer Walter Hollnagel


Source:
http://www.eisenbahnstiftung.de/bildergalerie/Reichsbahn%20im%20Krieg

Sunday, August 10, 2014

POW Cleared the Damage of the Railways Tracks in Verona

Obviously, Italian prisoners of war had been assigned to removed the damage to the railway tracks in Verona with simple means. The picture was taken in August 1944 by Walter Hollnagel


Source:
http://www.eisenbahnstiftung.de/bildergalerie/Reichsbahn%20im%20Krieg