It is early days into Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia. The Germans ruthlessly executed partisans.German soldiers tend to their wounded comrade in Russia, November, 1941.German soldiers watch as a Russian village burns. 1941.German planes pound Stalingrad 1942. But it lost the battle.The ..
After wrapping up Poland between themselves, the Russians and Germans meet at Lublin, 1939. Germany would attack Russia in less than two years.All the while on the Rhine border the Germans were making threatening noises with sound trucks like this. The idea being to demoralise the neighbours.The ..
Before D-Day, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower gives his "Nothing else, but complete victory" talk to American soldiers of 101st Airborne DivisionAmerican soldiers march through a British town to their embarkation vehiclesAmerican paratroopers sit grimly on a plane to parachute into FranceOthers join a ..
This image perhaps says it all. The proud young German soldier lies dead before the Brandenburg GateThe not-so-handsome Soviet troops march on the streets of Berlin.Russians soldiers wave their flag near the Brandenburg Gate in BerlinA Soviet tank trundles by the GateThe once proud and beautiful ..
This is a heart-rending account from a man who lived in Berlin after Nazism ended in 1945.Today we went to Berlin, my wife and me. The streets are cleaned up as far as possible, to restore the traffic barely. It has freed the scattered stones from mortar and built from the ruins of houses. At ..