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• NAZI PERSECUTION

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Hawkins Bruce (Sgt) 1945-04-09

  Liberation of the Concentration Camps: A Polish boy liberated by the Americans at Eisenach in Germany enjoys his first meal of US Army rations.

• NAZI PERSECUTION

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  An orchestra formed from prisoners at concentration camps around the Polish city of Lwów (also occupied by the Soviets between 1939-1941) are forced to play at the execution of a group of Russian prisoners. In the bottom right hand corner of the...

• AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: American official photographer 1945

  Crippled Russian and Polish prisoners stand in front of a US armoured vehicle belonging to the US 11th Armoured Divison. This image was taken at Mauthausen concentration camp.

• OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Casualties - American assault troops killed in their attempt to storm across a narrow strip of beach on the northern coast of France to the comparative safety of a chalk cliff a few hundred feet from the surf.

• OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A US Medical Corpsman administers a saline drip to a fellow medic of 4th Infantry Division wounded on 'Utah' Beach, 6 June 1944.

• OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  US soldiers laden with equipment on Omaha beach.

• OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A dead US soldier lies face down in the sand (note the label already attached to his collar).

• NORMANDY, ONE YEAR AFTER D DAY, JUNE 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Riordan Lawrence

  German prisoners tending an American cemetery at St Laurient, France, near Omaha beach.

• THE CAMPAIGN IN SICILY 1943

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Operation Husky: The Sicily Landings 9 - 10 July 1943: Aerial view of the Allied landings showing landing craft along the shore as troops go and supplies move inland.

• THE NAZI SEIZURE OF POWER, 1933 - 1935

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Adolf Hitler greets Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the German President, at a ceremony in Berlin in early 1934, after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933. Behind Hitler are Joseph Goebbels, Herman Goering, SS General Sepp Dietrich and Admiral Erich...