Three German soldiers rest after capture.

Three German soldiers rest after capture. Three German soldiers captured near Huseheid, east of the Rhine and one-half mile west of the great Cologne-Frankfurt autobahn, rest as they wait in a First U.S. Army prisoner-of-war enclosure for shipment to the rea. Left to right: A soldier of 41 years, one of 16 and another of 46. Since the start of the large-scale Allied offensive February 8, 1945, into the Rhineland, 250,000 prisoners have been taken. From June 6, 1944, to March 22, 1945, Allied forces on the Western Front captured 1,116,061 Germans.