Three women walk along bombed damaged streets and buildings showing the destruction of the city in July 1945 following the allied occupation of...
Princess Elizabeth, future Elizabeth II, born 1926. Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Seen here in 1945 in the uniform...
Civilians fill the streets of Milan to celebrate their liberation by Italian partizans from the Nazi German forces and Fascist regime of occupation...
Woman walks along bombed damaged streets and buildings showing the destruction of the city following the allied occupation of Berlin, Germany, July...
Wrecked German 88mm anti-aircraft flak gun standing in front of the bomb damaged ruins of the Reichstag in July 1945 following the allied occupation...
German civilian woman bandages the hand of a young teenage Wehrmacht conscript soldier after surrendering to a unit from the United States Ninth Army...
With their hands above their heads, prisoners of war from units of the German 11th SS Panzer Army walk into captivity along a pontoon bridge across...
Japanese toddler sits crying amidst the rubble left by the explosion in Hiroshima following the dropping of the world's first atomic bomb on the city...
Of the 83rd Division Infantry wounded during the fighting on the east bank of the Elbe, Kameritz, Germany, World War II, 16th April 1945.
Infantry Troops Marching Through Town, Elderly Woman Looking at Demolished Buildings, Central Europe Campaign, Western Allied Invasion of Germany,...
Celebrations begin in New York on the announcement of Germany's surrender at the end of World War II, 7th May 1945. People are holding up copies of...
Bomb-damaged buildings and military vehicles show the destruction along the Unter Den Linden leading to the Brandenburg Gate in July 1945 following...
German civilian woman gives some bread to a young teenage Wehrmacht conscript soldier after surrendering to a unit from the United States Ninth Army...
View from the British Sector of Soviet Red Army soldiers and residents passing through the Brandenburg Gate towards Pariser Platz and Unter den...
Waffen-SS soldiers of Kampfgruppe Peiper accused of killing 84 American prisoners of war at Malmedy in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge are...
Corporal Russell M. Ochwad, of Chicago, playing the part of Adolf Hitler makes the Nazi salute on the balcony of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin,...
Family of refugees haul their children and possessions on wooden carts along a wrecked and bombed out city centre street as they return to Berlin,...
Schutzhaftlagerführer Franz Hössler#5 , deputy camp commandant at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp sits alongside SS Aufseherin Juana Bormann , SS...
Destroyed American amtracs and other vehicles on a beach at Iwo Jima, Mount Suribachi in distance, March 1945.
Berlin - Postwar Germany - Berlin - Postwar Germany, June 1945. The destroyed Reichstag building in Berlin in 1945. Bombed German parliament...
First Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by B-29 Superfortresses, U.S. Army, A.A.F. Photo A-58914 AC, August 6, 1945.
The twin spires of Cologne Cathedral are seen in the background as an M4A1 Sherman medium tank and infantry soldiers of the 3rd Armoured Division,...
Rubble fills the grand entrance to the ruined Reichstag building, home of Germany's parliament, in the centre of Berlin, capital city of Germany, at...
Horses of Saxony, Horse-drawn carriages in Germany, Trams in Dresden, Altmarkt, Dresden before 1945, Cafes in Dresden, Trams with fleet number 26...
The twin spires of Cologne Cathedral are seen in the background as soldiers of the 3rd Armored Division, First Army Corps of the United States...
Civilians Watching U.S. Troops as they Advance Through Dusseldorf, Germany, Central Europe Campaign, Western Allied Invasion of Germany, 1945.
Group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, on the day of the camp’s...
Homeless German refugee tries to console her son amidst the the destruction of post war Germany, Berlin, June 1945.
Group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, on the day of the camp’s...
Japanese man with a bicycle walks through the ruins of Hiroshima following the dropping of the world's first atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945.
Major General Charles Gerhardt , commander of the 29th Infantry Division, United States Ninth Army walks through the shell and bomb damaged buildings...
Surrender of the Kwantung army. The Kwantung Army was stationed in Manchukuo and was one of the main Japanese fighting forces during the Second...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill appears on the balcony at Buckingham Palace together with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and the two princesses...
Four Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the XXI Bomber Command, part of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command , on a bombing raid over...
The ruins of central Hiroshima, September 1945. On 6th August that year, the atomic bomb 'Little Boy', was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29...
American President Harry S Truman reading the text of his announcement of the unconditional surrender of Germany to news reporters, a few minutes...
Two columns of 1st and 2nd Marine Division troops from the III Amphibious Corps of the United States Tenth Army pass each other on the march going to...
Nazis accused during the Belsen trial in Lueneburg, Germany, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, New Series, No 11, September 30, 1945.
Families of refugees haul their children and possessions on wooden carts and prams along a wrecked and bombed out city centre street as they return...
Two German women prisoners of war from a Wehrmachthelferin unit, walk into captivity after surrendering to soldiers from the United States Seventh...
