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The Life of Polish Refugees in Iran Seen Through Rare Photographs: 1942-1945
Following the Soviet invasion of Poland at the onset of World War II in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet Pact against Poland, the Soviet Union acquired over half of the territory of the Second Polish Republic. Within months, in order to de-Polonize annex…
Lviv Pogroms: Jewish People Chased and Brutally Murdered by Men and Youth Armed with Clubs, 1941
Chased by youth armed with clubs, this woman is fleeing from a "death dealer" whose left leg can be seen at the left-hand edge of the photograph. The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive massacres of Jews living in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), per…
Luftwaffe Aces Meet Hitler after an Awards Ceremony at the Berghof in 1944
Adolf Hitler chats with his flying aces from Luftwaffe after an awards ceremony (Eichenlaub and Schwertern) at Berghof Obersalzberg on April 1944. All these Luftwaffe officers aces received their Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Oak Leaves or Swords …
Rudolf Hoess: The Commandant of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, is Hanged Next to the Crematorium at the Camp, 1947
Rudolf Hoess (Rudolf Höss) was the architect and commandant of the largest killing center ever created, the death camp Auschwitz, whose name has come to symbolize humanity's ultimate descent into evil. On 1 May 1940, Hoess was appointed commandant of a …
German Soldiers Take Boots and Other Equipment from Dead American Soldiers at a Crossroads in Belgium, 1944
These American soldiers probably got ambushed by German machine guns when they were attempting a routine street crossing at the wrong time. They're at a crossroads, a good spot to ambush an advancing army. This photo is taken during the early hours of t…
Russian Spy Laughing Through His Execution in Finland, 1942
A Soviet spy laughs at his executioner in a picture taken in Rukajärvi, in East Karelia, in November 1942. It has been thought within the Finnish Defence Forces that the decision to withhold pictures of the fate of Russian prisoners of war and spies may…
Hitler’s Birthday in 1941: Goering, Keitel, and Himmler Wishing the Fuhrer
Five years later all the four would be dead, three suicides, and a hanging. This is probably the last peaceful moment they had, two months later the invade of the Soviet Union would begin. You can almost see the distaste that Himmler had towards Goring …
Laughing at Auschwitz: SS Auxiliaries Pose at a Resort for Auschwitz Personnel, 1942
These photos were taken between May and December 1944, and they show the officers and guards of Auschwitz relaxing and enjoying themselves — as countless people were being murdered and cremated at the nearby death camp. In some of the photos, SS officers c…
Hans-Georg Henke: A 16-Year-Old German Soldier Crying After His Capture by the Allies, 1945
A sixteen-year-old German anti-aircraft soldier of the Hitler Youth, Hans-Georg Henke, taken prisoner in the state of Hessen, Germany. He was a member of the Luftwaffe anti-air squad who burst into tears as his world crumbled around him. His father died…