Collection search - Army Numerical 51321-51800 - North West Europe - Album 95 of 110

The prints in this album document Canadian army activities in Northwest Europe in the last days before Victory in Europe (VE), in Holland and Germany. Subjects photographed include personnel and equipment, captured enemy equipment, Canadian army and Allied military leadership, civilians, heavily damaged cities and towns, large formations of surrendering German personnel and the process of taking them captive as prisoners of war, and the arrest of Reich Commissar Seyss Inquart. Other subjects depicted include the delivery of surrender terms at Bad Zwischenahn, the capture or peaceful handover of Oldenburg and Wageningen, linking up with Russian units at Wismar on the Baltic, the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, celebrations in Utrecht, Amsterdam, the Hague, and large scale disarming programs.

The b&w safety negatives for photographs found in this album (numbers 51321 to 51800) can be found in CANADA. DEPT. OF NATIONAL DEFENCE 1967-052 DND box 041 (50760 to 52417).