The partition of Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement
Neville Chamberlain waves the Munich Agreement before a crowd in England
Map of Nazi Germany and its expansion from 1933 to 1942
Hitler enters the Saarland after the 1935 plebicite.
Molotov and Ribbentrop sign the 1939 German-Soviet non aggression pact.
(Note Stalin in the background)
Adolf Hitler after the conquest of Paris in 1940
The remains of Rotterdam after German bombing
Churchill viewing the ruins of the Coventry Cathederal in 1940
Russian POWs after the German invasion of 1941. Note the German soldier raising a stick or shovel to beat them. Most POWs died within months of capture.
Nevsky Prospekt under artillery fire during the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944)
The entrance to Auschwitz I with the infamous sign "Arbeit macht frei." or "Work makes you free."
Entrance gate to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Aerial view of Auschwitz-Birkenau
American Senator Barkley from Kentucky witnesses the bodies from the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Civilians from Weimar were marched up to the camp to view the bodies.
Above: the famous picture of Jewish civilians being rounded up after the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Below: The Warsaw Ghetto in the aftermath of fighting.
German soldiers taken prisoner after the Battle of Stalingrad
American soldiers come ashore during the Normandy Landings in 1944
The remains of Hamburg after Allied bombing during "Operation Gomorrah"
View of Dresden from the Augustbrücke circa 1900
Dresden after the bombing of 1945
The remains of the Frauenkirche after the war
Hitler reviews Hitler Youth and awards an Iron Cross days before the fall of Berlin.
Soviet soldiers plant their flag on the Reichstag
Field Marshall Keitel signs the instrument of surrender in Berlin on May 8, 1945
