50,000 German Prisoners In Allied Internment Camp 1945

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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.

Various scenes of wounded or sick German prisoners being carried or assisted by German soldiers arriving at internment camp.

German children, men and women watching German prisoners in train boxcars. Women hands food to German prisoners in train boxcar. Shows women waving to German prisoners in boxcars as train gets underway. Shows transfer of German prisoners by train probably to France.

Women looking at German prisoners in an open field from a distance. Sign reads “Army PWE”.

Note: Images of the Rheinwiesenlager. The Rheinwiesenlager (Rhine meadow camps) were a group of 19 camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army. This camp may be part of the Rheinwiesenlager camp built at Koblenz (Coblenz), Germany. The official name of these camps were Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures (PWTE). The prisoners held in these camps were designated “Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEF) not POWs because of the logistical problems adhering to the Geneva Convention.

Due to the numbers of prisoners, the Americans transferred internal control of the camps to the Germans. Former German troops from the Wehrmacht's Feldgendarmerie (Military Police) and Feldjagerkorps (Military Police) known as Wehrmachtordnungstruppe (Armed Forces Order Troops) maintained order in the camps.

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