Jakob Nacken, the tallest German soldier of Second World War, 1944
On one side towered a 7ft 3in (2.21m) German man mountain who quit his job with …
On one side towered a 7ft 3in (2.21m) German man mountain who quit his job with …
Once the United States abandoned neutrality and declared war on Germany in April…
The events of 1942 were crucial in the way that World War Two played out. The fi…
The picture depicts a liberated Russian inmate pointing an identifying and accusin…
He was Korean – captured by the Japanese and pressed to fight the Soviets, capture…
It was the night of June 29, 1941, in the foothills of Murmansk, Soviet Union. C…
A Dutch woman is seen here with her husband, a German soldier that she had married…
These iconic photographs were taken in 1947 at Vienna’s Southern Railway Station, …
Under British military escort, two German Luftwaffe crewmen, an Unteroffizier (S…
Leonard Siffleet was an Australian Special Forces radio operator, sent on mission …
Downed U.S. airman Dewey Waddell was taken captive by Vietnamese communist fighter…
Five Australian former prisoners of war of the Japanese relax with cups of tea and…
In this photograph, a Red Army solider is seen marching a German solider into ca…
The image shows the faces of German prisoners of war, captured by Americans, wat…
Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin's elder son, served in the Red Army during the Second…
All these German prisoners of war were captured following the Falaise Pocket battl…
Heinrich Himmler looks at a young Soviet prisoner of war during an official visi…
The Japanese treatment of prisoners of war in World War II was barbaric. The men…
The mother of a prisoner thanks Konrad Adenauer upon his return from Moscow on Sep…
After spending more than five years in a North Vietnamese camp, Lt. Col. Robert L.…