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Symbolic of the defense of Sevastopol, Crimea, is this Russian girl sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who, by the
end of the war, had killed a confrimed 309 Germans -- the most successful female sniper in history. (AP
Photo)

Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl looks through the lens of a large camera prior to filming the 1934 Nuremberg
Rally in Germany. The footage would be composed into the 1935 film "Triumph of the Will", later hailed as
one of the best propaganda films in history. (LOC)

Japanese women look for possible flaws in the empty shells in a factory in Japan, on September 30, 1941. (AP
Photo)

Three Soviet guerrillas in action in Russia during World War II. (LOC)

The German Aviatrix, Captain Hanna Reitsch, shakes hands with German chancellor Adolf Hitler after being
awarded the Iron Cross second class at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin, Germany, in April 1941, for her service
in the development of airplane armament instruments during World War II. In back, center is Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering. At the extreme right is Lt. Gen. Karl Bodenschatz of the German air ministry. (AP Photo)

A group of young Jewish resistance fighters are being held under arrest by German SS soldiers in April/May
1943, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. (AP
Photo)

Little known to the outside world, although they have been fighting fascist regimes since 1927, the Italian
"Maquis" carry on their battle for freedom under the most hazardous conditions. Germans and fascist Italians are
targets for their guns; and the icy, eternally snow-clad peaks of the French-Italian border are their battlefield. This
school teacher of the Valley of Aosta fights side-by-side with her husband in the "White Patrol" above the pass of
Little Saint Bernard in Italy, on January 4, 1945. (AP Photo)

Steel-helmeted, uniformed Polish women march through the streets of Warsaw to aid in defense of their capital
after German troops had started their invasion of Poland, on September 16, 1939. (AP Photo)

U.S. nurses walk along a beach in Normandy, France on July 4, 1944, after they had waded through the surf
from their landing craft. They are on their way to field hospitals to care for the wounded allied soldiers. (AP
Photo)

A French man and woman fight with captured German weapons as both civilians and members of the French
Forces of the Interior took the fight to the Germans, in Paris in August of 1944, prior to the surrender of German
forces and the Liberation of Paris on August 25.(AP Photo)

A girl of the resistance movement is a member of a patrol to rout out the Germans snipers still left in areas in
Paris, France, on August 29, 1944. The girl had killed two Germans in the Paris Fighting two days
previously. (AP Photo)

Polish women are led through woods to their executions by German soldiers sometime in 1941. (LOC)

Women and children, some of over 40,000 concentration camp inmates liberated by the British, suffering from
typhus, starvation and dysentery, huddle together in a barrack at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in April 1945. (AP
Photo)

World War II: The Allied Invasion of Europe

While under attack of heavy machine gun fire from the German coastal defense forces, American soldiers wade
ashore off the ramp of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, during the Allied landing operations at Normandy,
France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)

In July of 1943, Allied Forces' troops, guns and transport are rushed ashore, ready for action, at the opening of
the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Sicily. (AP Photo)

A Royal Air Force Baltimore light bomber drops a series of bombs during an attack on the railway station and
junction at the snow-covered town of Sulmona, a strategic point on the east-west route across Italy, in February
of 1944. (AP Photo)

German infantrymen take cover in a house in southern Italy, on February 6, 1944, awaiting the word to attack
after Stukas had done their work. (AP Photo)

U.S. soldiers march past the historical Roman Colosseum and follow their retreating enemy in Rome, Italy, on
June 5, 1944. (AP Photo)

Mt. Vesuvius spewing ash into the sky, erupting as a U.S. Army jeep speeds by shortly after the arrival of the
Allied forces in Naples, Italy in 1944. (AP Photo)

General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the Day. "Full victory - nothing else" to paratroopers in
England on June 6, 1944, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion
of the continent of Europe. All of the men with General Eisenhower are members of Company E, 502d. (U.S.
Army)

Some of the first assault troops to hit the beachhead in Normandy, France take cover behind enemy obstacles to
fire on German forces as others follow the first tanks plunging through the water towards the German-held shore
on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)

American soldiers on Omaha Beach recover the dead after the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of France. (Walter
Rosenblum/LOC)

Allied troops unload equipment and supplies on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in early June of 1944. (U.S.
Army)

Parachutes open as waves of paratroops land in Holland during operations by the 1st Allied Airborne Army in
September of 1944. Operation Market Garden was the largest airborne operation in history, with some 15,000
troops were landing by glider and another 20,000 by parachute. (Army)

In France, an American officer and a French Resistance fighter are seen engaged in a street battle with German
occupation forces during the days of liberation, August 1944, in an unknown city. (AP Photo)

A "Free French" soldier races to aid a Resistance fighter firing at a German sniper, Paris, August 1944. The
sniper had opened fire during a tour of the city by Gen. Charles de Gaulle (Ralph Morse Time & Life
Pictures/Getty Images)

An American version of a sidewalk cafe, in fallen La Haye du Puits, France on July 15, 1944, as Robert
McCurty, left, from Newark, New Jersey, Sgt. Harold Smith, of Brush Creek, Tennessee, and Sgt. Richard
Bennett, from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, raise their glasses in a toast. (AP Photo)

A view from a hilltop overlooking the road leading into St. Lo in July of 1944. Two French children in the
foreground watch convoys and trucks of equipment go through their almost completely destroyed city en route
to the front. (AP Photo)

After the French Resistance staged an uprising on August 19, American and Free French troops made a
peaceful entrance on August 25, 1944. Here, four days later, soldiers of Pennsylvania's Twenty-eighth Infantry
Division march along the Champs-Elysees, with the Arc de Triomphe in the background. (AP Photo/Peter J.
Carroll)

World War II: The Fall of Nazi Germany

"Raising a flag over the Reichstag" the famous photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei, taken on May 2, 1945. The
photo shows Soviet soldiers raising the flag of the Soviet Union on top of the German Reichstag building
following the Battle of Berlin. The moment was actually a re-enactment of an earlier flag-raising, and the photo
was embroiled in controversy over the identities of the soldiers, the photographer, and some significant photo
editing. (Yevgeny Khaldei/LOC)

A heavily armed German soldier carries ammunition boxes forward during the German counter-offensive in the
Belgium-Luxembourg salient, on January 2, 1945. (AP Photo)

From left, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Premier
Josef Stalin sit on the patio of Livadia Palace, Yalta, Crimea, in this February 4, 1945 photo. The three leaders
were meeting to discuss the post-war reorganization of Europe, and the fate of post-war Germany. (AP
Photo/File)

Killed German soldier in Stavelot, Belgium, 2 Jan 1945 )United States Army Signal Corps)

Soviet troops of the 3rd Ukrainian front in action amid the buildings of the Hungarian capital on February 5,
1945. (AP Photo)

Across the Channel, Britain was being struck by continual bombardment by thousands of V-1 and V-2 bombs
launched from German-controlled territory. This photo, taken from a fleet street roof-top, shows a V-1 flying bomb
"buzzbomb" plunging toward central London. The distinctive sky-line of London's law-courts clearly locates the
scene of the incident. Falling on a side road off Drury Lane, this bomb blasted several buildings, including the
office of the Daily Herald. The last enemy action of British soil was a V-1 attack that struck Datchworth in
Hertfordshire, on March 29 1945. (AP Photo)

With more and more members of the Volkssturm (Germany's National Militia) being directed to the front line,
German authorities were experiencing an ever-increasing strain on their stocks of army equipment and clothing.
In a desperate attempt to overcome this deficiency, street to street collection depots called the Volksopfer,
meaning Sacrifice of the people, scoured the country, collecting uniforms, boots and equipment from German
civilians, as seen here in Berlin on February 12, 1945. The Volksopfer bears the words "The Fuhrer expects your
sacrifice for Army and Home Guard. So that you're proud your Home Guard man can show himself in uniform empty your wardrobe and bring its contents to us". (AP Photo)

Two French soldiers giving African-American soldiers candy, Rouffach, France, 5 Feb 1945. (Photographer
Todd United States National Archives)

This combination of three photographs shows the reaction of a 16-year old German soldier after he was captured
by U.S. forces, at an unknown location in Germany, in 1945. (AP Photo)

A view taken from Dresden's town hall of the destroyed Old Town after the allied bombings between February 13
and 15, 1945. Some 3,600 aircraft dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary
devices on the German city. The resulting firestorm destroyed 15 square miles of the city center, and killed more
than 22,000. (Walter Hahn/AFP/Getty Images)

Adolf Hitler decorates members of his Nazi youth organization "Hitler Jugend" in a photo reportedly taken in front
of the Chancellery Bunker in Berlin, on April 25, 1945. That was just four days before Hitler committed
suicide. (AP Photo)

An American soldier of the 12th Armored Division stands guard over a group of German soldiers, captured in
April 1945, in a forest at an unknown location in Germany. (AP Photo)

These kids from Hitler Youth were sent to defend Berlin in the last stages!

One of the last images taken of Hitler. He gloomily inspects the damage to the Fuhrerbunker from the Russian
artillery with Chief GruppenFuhrer Schaub, who was his companion from early days

German POW,
broken men,
and civilians
get medical
attention in the
open near
Brandenberg
gate. April
1945, Berlin.

The entire generation of young German men was wiped out by the end of the war. Only old men and women
remained in Berlin as the Soviet troops poured in. Out of a population of 27,00,000; 20,00,000 were women.

Soviet officers and U.S. soldiers during a friendly meeting on the Elbe River in April of 1945. (Waralbum.ru)

A U.S. soldier stands in the middle of rubble in the Monument of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig after they
attacked the city on April 18, 1945. The huge monument commemorating the defeat of Napoleon in 1813 was
one of the last strongholds in the city to surrender. One hundred and fifty SS fanatics with ammunition and
foodstuffs stored in the structure to last three months dug themselves in and were determined to hold out as long
as their supplies. American First Army artillery eventually blasted the SS troops into surrender.(Eric
Schwab/AFP/Getty Images)

A seething mass of humanity jammed itself into Whitehall in central London on VE-Day (Victory in Europe Day),
May 8, 1945, to hear the premier officially announce Germany's unconditional surrender. More than one million
people celebrated in the streets of London.(AP Photo)

Looking north from 44th Street, New York's Times Square is packed Monday, May 7, 1945, with crowds
celebrating the news of Germany's unconditional surrender in World War II. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons)

Celebration of Victory in Moscow's Red Square, in the Soviet Union. Fireworks began on May 9, 1945, followed
by bursts of gunfire and a sky illuminated by searchlights. (Sergei Loskutov/Waralbum.ru

The wrecked Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, with a destroyed German military vehicle in the foreground,
at the end of World War II.(AP Photo)

A Russian tank is parked near the Brandenburg Gate. Also seen is American photographer Robert Carmen.
May 2, 1945

A photograph of the bombed-out historic city of Nuremberg, Germany in June of 1945, after the end of World
War II. Nuremberg had been the host of huge Nazi Party conventions from 1927 to 1938. The last scheduled
rally in 1939 was canceled at the last minute due to a scheduling conflict: the German invasion of Poland one
day prior to the rally date. The city was also the birthplace of the Nuremberg Laws, a set of draconian
antisemitic laws adopted by Nazi Germany. Allied bombings from 1943 until 1945 destroyed more than 90% of
the city center, and killed more than 6,000 residents. Nuremberg would soon become famous one last time as
the host of the Nuremberg Trials -- a series of military tribunals set up to prosecute the surviving leaders of
Nazi Germany. The war crimes these men were charged with included "Crimes Against Humanity", the
systematic murder of more than 10 million people, including some 6 million Jews. This genocide will be the
subject of part 18 in this series, coming next week. (NARA)

An emaciated 18-year-old Russian girl looks into the camera lens during the liberation of Dachau concentration
camp in 1945. Dachau was the first German concentration camp, opened in 1933. More than 200,000 people
were detained between 1933 and 1945, and 31,591 deaths were declared, most from disease, malnutrition and
suicide. Unlike Auschwitz, Dachau was not explicitly an extermination camp, but conditions were so horrific that
hundreds died every week. (Eric Schwab/AFP/Getty Images

German soldiers question Jews after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. In October 1940, the Germans
began to concentrate Poland's population of over 3 million Jews into overcrowded ghettos. In the largest of
these, the Warsaw Ghetto, thousands of Jews died due to rampant disease and starvation, even before the
Nazis began their massive deportations from the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp. The Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising -- the first urban mass rebellion against the Nazi occupation of Europe -- took place from April
19 until May 16 1943, and began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving
inhabitants. It ended when the poorly-armed and supplied resistance was crushed by German
troops. (OFF/AFP/Getty Images)

A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers in this April
19, 1943 photo. The picture formed part of a report from SS Gen. Stroop to his Commanding Officer, and was
introduced as evidence to the War Crimes trials in Nuremberg in 1945. (AP Photo)

Jewish deportees in the Drancy transit camp near Paris, France, in 1942, on their last stop before the German
concentration camps. Some 13,152 Jews (including 4,115 children) were rounded up by French police forces,
taken from their homes to the "Vel d'Hiv", or winter cycling stadium in southwestern Paris, in July of 1942. They
were later taken to a rail terminal at Drancy, northeast of the French capital, and then deported to the east. Only
a handful ever returned. (AFP/Getty Images)

Anne Frank poses in 1941 in this photo made available by Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In
August of 1944, Anne, her family and others who were hiding from the occupying German Security forces, were
all captured and shipped off to a series of prisons and concentration camps. Anne died from typhus at age 15 in
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but her posthumously published diary has made her a symbol of all Jews
killed in World War II. (AP Photo/Anne Frank House/Frans Dupont)

Czeslawa Kwoka, age 14, appears in a prisoner identity photo provided by the Auschwitz Museum, taken by
Wilhelm Brasse while working in the photography department at Auschwitz, the Nazi-run death camp where
some 1.5 million people, most of them Jewish, died during World War II. Czeslawa was a Polish Catholic girl,
from Wolka Zlojecka, Poland, who was sent to Auschwitz with her mother in December of 1942. Within three
months, both were dead. Photographer (and fellow prisoner) Brasse recalled photographing Czeslawa in a 2005
documentary: "She was so young and so terrified. The girl didn't understand why she was there and she couldn't
understand what was being said to her. So this woman Kapo (a prisoner overseer) took a stick and beat her
about the face. This German woman was just taking out her anger on the girl. Such a beautiful young girl, so
innocent. She cried but she could do nothing. Before the photograph was taken, the girl dried her tears and the
blood from the cut on her lip. To tell you the truth, I felt as if I was being hit myself but I couldn't interfere. It would
have been fatal for me." (AP Photo/Auschwitz Museum)

A German mother shields the eyes of her son as they walk with other civilians past a row of exhumed bodies
outside Suttrop, Germany. The bodies were those of 57 Russians killed by German SS troops and dumped in a
mass grave before the arrival of troops from the U.S. Ninth Army. Soldiers of the 95th Infantry division were led
by informers to the massive grave on May 3, 1945. Before burial, all German civilians in the vicinity were
ordered to view the victims. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, U.S. Army Signal Corps)

World War II: The Fall of Imperial Japan

On Monday, August 6, 1945, a mushroom cloud billows into the sky about one hour after an atomic bomb was
dropped by American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, detonating above Hiroshima, Japan. Nearly 80,000 people
are believed to have been killed immediately, with possibly another 60,000 survivors dying of injuries and
radiation exposure by 1950. (AP Photo/U.S. Army via Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)

In July of 1945, the United States was in the final stages of developing a powerful and deadly new weapon - the
Atomic Bomb. Here, Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer is seen in silhouette as he oversees final
assembly of "The Gadget", the first nuclear device to be detonated, at the Trinity test site in New Mexico. (U.S.
Department of Defense)

The U.S. B-29 Superfortress bomber
"Enola Gay" took off from Tinian
Island very early on the morning of
August 6th, carrying "Little Boy", a
4,000 kg (8,900 lb) uranium bomb. At
8:15 am, Little Boy was dropped from
9,400 m (31,000 ft) above the city,
freefalling for 57 seconds while a
complicated series of fuse triggers
looked for a target height of 600 m
(2,000 ft) above the ground. At the
moment of detonation, a small
explosive initiated a super-critical
mass in 64 kg (141 lbs) of uranium.
Of that 64 kg, only .7 kg (1.5 lbs)
underwent fission, and of that mass,
only 600 milligrams was converted
into energy - an explosive energy that
seared everything within a few miles,
flattened the city below with a
massive shockwave, set off a raging
firestorm and bathed every living
thing in deadly radiation. At the time
this photo was made, smoke billowed
in a column 20,000 feet above
Hiroshima while smoke from the
burst had spread over 10,000 feet at
the base of the rising
column. (NARA)

A pall of smoke lingers over this scene of destruction in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 7, 1945, a day after the
explosion of the atomic bomb. Nearly 80,000 people are believed to have been killed immediately, with
possibly another 60,000 survivors dying of injuries and radiation exposure by 1950. (AP Photo)

A Japanese soldier walks through a completely leveled area of Hiroshima in September of 1945. (NARA)

Only days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the second operational nuclear weapon was readied by the U.S.
Called "Fat Man", the unit is seen being placed on a trailer cradle in August of 1945. When the Japanese still
refused to surrender after Hiroshima, U.S. President Truman issued a statement saying in part "If they do not
now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this

"Fat Man" was dropped from the B-29 bomber Bockscar, detonating at 11:02 AM, at an altitude of about 1,650
feet (500 m) above Nagasaki. An estimated 39,000 people were killed outright by the bombing a further 25,000
were injured. (USAF)

People walk through the charred ruins of Nagasaki, shortly after an atomic bomb destroyed much of the city. The
explosion generated heat estimated at 3,900 degrees Celsius (4,200 K, 7,000 °F). (USAF)

The scene aboard the battleship Missouri as the Japanese surrender documents were signed in Tokyo Bay, on
September 2, 1945. Here, General Yoshijiro Umezu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Armed
Forces of Japan, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (behind him, in top hat) had earlier signed on behalf of the
government. Both men were later tried and convicted of war crimes. Umezu died while in prison, Shigemitsu was
paroled in 1950, and served in the Japanese government until his death in 1957. (AP Photo)

An allied correspondent stands in the radioactive rubble in front of the shell of a building that once was an
exhibition hall in Hiroshima, Japan, one month after the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped on
the city by the U.S. The explosion took place almost directly above the dome. (AP Photo/Stanley Troutman)

Soviet soldiers with lowered standards of the defeated Nazi forces during the Victory Day parade in Moscow,
on June 24, 1945. (Yevgeny Khaldei/Waralbum.ru)

Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei (center) in Berlin with Soviet forces, near the Brandenburg Gate in May
of 1945. (Waralbum.ru)

U.S. General George S. Patton acknowledges the cheers of thousands during a parade through downtown Los
Angeles, California, on June 9, 1945. Shortly thereafter, Patton returned to Germany and controversy, as he
advocated the employment of ex-Nazis in administrative positions in Bavaria; he was relieved of command of the
3rd Army and died of injuries from a traffic accident in December, after his return home. Joe Rosenthal's famous
Iwo Jima flag-raising photograph is visible on the war bonds billboard. (AP Photo)

A sailor and a nurse
kiss passionately in
Manhattan's Times
Square, as New
York City celebrates
the end of World
War II on August 14,
1945. (AP
Photo/U.S.
Navy/Victor
Jorgensen)

Jewish survivors of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, some still in their camp clothing, stand on the deck of the refugee
immigration ship Mataroa, on July 15, 1945 at Haifa port, during the British Mandate of Palestine, in what would later become the
State of Israel. During World War II, millions of Jews were fleeing Germany and its occupied territories, many attempting to enter
the British Mandate of Palestine, despite tight restrictions on Jewish immigration established by the British in 1939. Many of these
would-be immigrants were caught and rounded up into detention camps. In 1947, Britain announced plans to withdraw from the
territory, and the United Nations approved the Partition Plan for Palestine, establishing a Jewish and a Palestinian state in the
country. On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence and was immediately attacked by neighboring Arab states, beginning
the Arab-Israeli conflict which continues to this day. (Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images)

The interior of the courtroom of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in 1946 during the Trial of the Major War
Criminals, prosecuting 24 government and civilian leaders of Nazi Germany. Visible here is Hermann
Goering, former leader of the Luftwaffe, seated in the box at center right, wearing a gray jacket, headphones,
and dark glasses. Next to him sits Rudolf Hess, former Deputy Fuhrer of Germany, then Joachim von
Ribbentrop, former Nazi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilhelm Keitel, former leader of Germany's Supreme
Command (blurry face), and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the highest ranking surviving SS-leader. Goering, von
Ribbentrop, Keitel, and Kaltenbrunner were sentenced to death by hanging along with 8 others -- Goering
committed suicide the night before the execution. Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he served
at Spandau Prison, Berlin, where he died in 1987. (AP Photo/STF)

World War Ii: the Photos we Remember

Sergeant Leonard Siffleet was a commando
fighting with the Australian Army in New
Guinea when he was captured by natives,
who turned him over to the occupying
Japanese army. Trained as a radio operator
in the Special Forces, Siffleet was part of a
secret surveillance detachment sent to New
Guinea to watch the coast and report back
on enemy activities.After they were turned
over to the Japanese, they were held for
about two weeks, tortured, and then – on
October 24, 1943, on the orders of ViceAdmiral Michiaki Kamada of the Imperial
Japanese Navy – Siffleet was executed by
beheading. He was beheaded by a Japanese
officer, Yasuno Chikao. Chikao ordered
another soldier to photograph him while he
performed the execution.

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