Clockshoutphoto: The War Year's 1939-1945

In 1939 Henri Cartier-Bresson joined the French army as a Corporal in the film and photo unit. During the Battle of France in June 1940 he was captured and spent the next two years eleven months as a prisoner war doing forced labour for the Nazis. After two failed attempts he finely escaped in May of 1943 using false papers he returned to France. Where he joined the the underground, aiding other escapees and working secretly with other photographers to covering the occupation and then the liberation of France

"Dessau, Germany, April 1945.
A transit camp located between
the American and Soviet zones
organized for refugees; Political
prisoners, POW's, STO's(forced laborers),
Displaced persons, returning from the
Eastern front of Germany that
had being liberated by the soviet
army.A young Belgian women and
former Gestapo informer, being
identified as she tried to hide in the crowed."
"Timesonline Photo Gallery"