American soldiers cut loose the body of a hanged german deserter. Picture was taken near Schweinfurt/Bavaria in Germany, April 1945.
After the capitulation: Thousands of German helmets ready for meltdown.
A Jewish boy has a look of fear as a SS soldier with a slight smirk prepares to cut the Jewish boys hair.
American soldiers cut down a hanged German deserter.
Nagasaki after it was hit by the 'Little baby'
Malmedy Massacre, committed by German SS troops against surrendering US troops during the Battle of the Bulge. The US soldiers were led into a filed and then shot down. While German survivors claim that the soldiers tried to flee and were shot in an overreaction, surviving US soldiers state that the victims were executed, something supported by the fact that roughly a quarter of them had a single bullet wound to the head, inflicted at close range
After a fierce battle in Russia.
The grim battle for Berlin
An American ship after it was hit by a Kamikaze
A heavy US bomber B-24 "Liberator" takes a direct hit of German flak and breaks apart.
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