[East German soldier Hans Conrad Schumann jumping barbed wire barricade to freedom as he defects from East Berlin]

[General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben (left), the commander of the German garrison in Cherbourg, after having surrendered to the Americans, Cherbourg, France]

[American troops marching toward strategic hilltop town that the Germans had determined to hold at all costs, near Troina, Sicily]

[People in front of the remains of the Central Post Office, where the Germans planted a time bomb that denotated after they abandoned the city, Naples]

[In a POW camp in the desert, German soldiers captured by American forces obtaining waiting for drinking and bathing from a huge tank, Tunisia]

More Nordhausen Concentration Camp: German male citizens of Nordhausen were compelled to bury the 2700 dead. Here they are carrying the bodies to the graves

[Young adults gather together at an orphanage in a former German barrack with a image of Janusz Korczak on the wall to discuss the reconstruction of Warsaw, Bartoszyce, Poland]

[Allied solders working to set up supply and medical area on beach mostly cleared of German defenders during the invasion of Normandy, France]