The body of Jewish prisoner Menachem Taffel, his identification tattoo still visible on his forearm, after he was murdered at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. His body was subsequently transported to the Strasbourg University Anatomical Institute, December 1944. [1745 × 1200]

The body of Jewish prisoner Menachem Taffel, his identification tattoo still visible on his forearm, after he was murdered at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. His body was subsequently transported to the Strasbourg University Anatomical Institute, December 1944. [1745 × 1200]

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 16 hours ago

A German soldier shields his face from the camera after he was captured by the US Army's 16th Infantry near Weywertz, Belgium, 15 January 1945. [634 × 800]

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 1 day ago

Korean Independence activist Yun Bong-gil moments before his execution by firing squad in Kanazawa, Japan, on 19 December 1932. He was sentenced to death for carrying out the Hongkou Park bombing, which killed two senior Japanese officials.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 1 day ago

Large-caliber rocket launchers (28/32 cm Nebelwerfer 41 or 30 cm Nebelwerfer 42) from a motorized rocket artillery unit of the Wehrmacht firing a salvo towards Soviet positions, central sector of the Eastern Front, spring-summer 1943.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 1 day ago

Three Polish railway workers publicly hanged by German authorities in Kutno's Old Market Square on June 9, 1941, as punishment for smuggling food into occupied Warsaw.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 2 days ago

SS-Brigadeführer and Major General of the Waffen-SS, Jürgen Stroop, with Ukrainian Trawniki Auxiliary troops at the Umschlagplatz during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 3 days ago

Photos of the Gardelegen Massacre contributed by the first American (And British) soldiers who arrived at the scene on April 15, 1945.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 3 days ago

Bonde Gaza, a Hungarian musician who survived the Gardelegen massacre where over 1,000 slave laborers were burnt alive, demonstrates to American soldiers how he managed to escape from the barn which the SS had set on fire. Germany, April 14–18, 1945, [1024 × 793].

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 3 days ago

(Left to right) A young Captain Yamamoto Isoroku, who was Japanese naval attaché in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, another Japanese naval officer, and Admiral Edward W. Eberle, chief of U.S. naval operations, Feb. 17, 1926.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 4 days ago

Series of photos showing a mass execution of Jewish civilians by German Police in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland on November 11, 1939.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 4 days ago

Wehrmacht officers hanged by an SS unit in a Vienna suburb. In the foreground is the body of Wehrmacht Major Karl Biedermann, bearing a sign that reads "I made a pact with the Bolsheviks.", April 8th, 1945.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 5 days ago

Group portrait of Kempeitai officers in Yogyakarta, Dutch East Indies. The men were recognizable by the white armband bearing the word Kempeitai in Japanese characters.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 5 days ago

A Dutch marine threatens with his rifle butt during the interrogation of a group of captured Indonesian fighters, August 1946, near Surabaya. [1024 × 850]

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 5 days ago

Bodies of executed Colonial Tirailleurs in the Montgueux region following their massacre by German troops during the Battle of France, June 1940.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 6 days ago