German POW's collected in the courtyard of a French government building

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POW's formerly of the I./156 PanzerGrenadier-Regiment, 116 Panzer-Division under guard in a courtyard before being moved to a POW camp. They were mainly captured around the 12th of August.

Given the interest from French civilians on the other side of the railings, the locked gates were as much to keep angry French civilians out as the Germans in.