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On August 18, 1944, at the Liberation, eleven women suspected of collaboration were shorn in Chartres (France) as a sign of humiliation, including Simone Touseau. Photo Robert Capa
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Germans in Prague, evicted from their homes on Strossmayer Square, wait to be deported to allied occupied Germany (1945) (1280x1204)
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Soviet soldiers chatting with children just liberated from Auschwitz, January 1945
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British and Nazi flags hang over coffins of British children abandoned to die on the German Black Forest mountain by their teacher, which was covered up by both govts in 1936. (2560x1600)
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80 years ago today, on January 27, 1945, Auschwitz is liberated. In this photo a doctor, center, with the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army, walks with a group of survivors at the entrance to the newly liberated Auschwitz I concentration camp. January 1945
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"Soldier, would you mind standing up? I'd like to take your picture,” Robert Capa said to me. “It was the last good picture of my right leg.” — James Conboy Jr (1945)
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Demmin, a German city overwhelmed by the bodies of suicide victims. Soviet officers observe the bodies of two German civilians who committed suicide in April 1945. | Anonymous
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Execution of Laszlo Bardossy, Budapest, Hungary 1946. Photo by Lee Miller
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A flag-waving veteran of the Red Army confronting an anti-communist protester in Moscow, circa 1990.
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University of Madras student ties his hair to nail to prevent sleeping at night while preparing for exams, 1905
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