"Captured Contrasts- Axis Prisoners in North Africa. 12 April 1943, Algiers, Two Pictures Show Revealing Faces Among a Batch of Axis Prisoners of War on Arrival at a North African Port. the Italians Look Happy and Seemed Glad To Be Prisoners But the German Faces on the Whole Were Full of Bitterness and Disappointment at Their Defeat." Gloomy German prisoners of war.