World War 2

French female collaborator punished by having her head shaved to publicly mark her, 1944

Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, 1945

Haunting Photographs of Berlin at the End of the World War II

The story behind the “Easter eggs for Hitler” photograph, 1945

Photographs show Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili captured by the Germans, 1941

German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945

775 confirmed kills in one picture, 1945

The naked gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944

German troops use a Schwellenpflug to destroy rail tracks while withdrawing from Soviet territory, 1944

Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szalasi is given the last rites before being hanged as a collaborator, 1946

The Weeping Frenchman: The Story Behind an Iconic Image, 1940

A German Prisoner of War Escorted by a Soviet soldier, Stalingrad, 1943

Photographs of Hitler’s triumphant tour of Paris, 1940

The Post-War Ruins of Dresden Through Rare Photographs, 1945

Japanese Troops Using Prisoners of War for Target Practice, 1942

Two RAF airmen are buried with full military honors by occupying German soldiers, Channel Islands, 1943

A well-armed Soviet partisan, 1944

Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad, 1944

The Defiance: Himmler and a prisoner locked in a staring contest, 1941

Stand to Death, 152 mm howitzer battery fires during Operation Bagration, 1944

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