2. A
Sudeten woman from the area that is now the Czech Republic salutes the
conquering German forces while crying at the fall of her people to the
Nazis, circa 1942-1945.
3. Bystanders
look on as a boy's burning corpse lies next to the jeep he was in,
which was struck by a German V-2 rocket in Antwerp, Belgium on November
27, 1944
4.
A young man sits on an overturned stool next to a burnt body inside the
Thekla concentration subcamp outside Leipzig, Germany soon after its
liberation by U.S. forces on April 18, 1945.
6. Human
bones litter the grounds of the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin,
Poland following its liberation by Soviet forces on July 24, 1944.
7. Two
women stand amid the leveled ruins of the almshouse that was their home
before a German bombing raid destroyed it in Newbury, England on
February 11, 1943.
8. Burnt bodies lie on the grounds of the Thekla concentration subcamp, outside Leipzig, Germany, April 1945.
9. Roger
Godfrin, the only survivor of a massacre during which Nazi troops
locked 643 citizens (including 500 women and children) inside a church
and set fire to it on June 10, 1944 in Oradour sur Glane, France.
10. French
women accused of collaborating with the Nazis have their heads shaved
by French Resistance fighters in Paris on June 21, 1944
11. A young French girl clings to her mother in May 1940 as French civilians flee the German Army offensive in the north of France.
12. Photo
taken at the instant that bullets from a French firing squad hit a
French man who had collaborated with the Germans in Rennes, France on
November 21, 1944.
13.
The
devastated remains of Hiroshima, Japan just days after U.S. forces
dropped an atomic bomb on the city, killing upwards of 140,000, on
August 6, 1945.
14.
Children of an eastern suburb of London, who have been made homeless by
German bombings, sit outside the wreckage of what was their home,
September 1940.
15. Victims of the massive Allied bombing campaign in Dresden, Germany, February 1945.
16. An 18-year-old Russian prisoner of Dachau concentration camp not long after its liberation by U.S. forces on April 29, 1945.
17. Some
of the 60,000 dead bodies found on the grounds of Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp following its liberation by British troops on April
15, 1945.
18. The American ship Robert Rowan explodes after being attacked by a German bomber off the coast of Gela, Sicily on July 11, 1943.
19. A tortured prisoner of the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945.
-Melvin Brown 
