[German soldiers captured by American forces burying some of the men killed during the D-Day landings, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[Soldier leading Frenchwoman who had collaborated with the Germans to the Préfecture de Police to have her head shaved, Chartres, France]

[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]

[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]

[Soldiers from the joint U.S.-Canadian Special Service Force firing on German forces that had abandonded this village, outside Radicosa, Italy]

[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

[Morning assembly at Gut Winkel, a training farm for German Jewish youth hoping to immigrate to Palestine, Spreenhagen in der Mark, Brandenburg, Germany]

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

[French woman, who had had a baby by a German soldier, and her mother (left) punished by having their heads shaved, Chartres, France]

[Lines of people standing amid remains of the Central Post Office, where the Germans planted a time bomb that denotated after they abandoned the city, Naples]

Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, looking at the bombed out remains of the Debating Chamber in the House of Commons following Germans attack. (Famous Picture File)

[Woman on kitchen duty, Gut Winkel, a training farm for German Jewish youth hoping to immigrate to Palestine, Spreenhagen in der Mark, Brandenburg, Germany]

German red Cross worker, bringing boiled water, is stopped for a moment by the stench from the "death carriage" of the refugee train. An old farmer calls her

First Army at Nordhausen: Before Germans moved out, the men that died of starvation at Nordhausen concentration camp were stripped and stacked in piles under the staircase.

Red Army man Kuzbayev, a Kazakh, annihilated a German machine gun crew and then killed 18 more Hitlerites with the captured machinegun. Kuzbayev with the captured machinegun.

[Trio of dejected, wounded German civilians turning themselves over to invading Allied forces; they had tried to surrender earlier but were shot at by their own troops]

German soldiers and civilians found lurking in derailed trolley cars on main approach to Leipzig bridge are hustled on their way to the rear by American GI's of sergeant's platoon.

[Banner at Communist rally, Strasbourg, France]

This man is an American soldier. He has been a German prisoner for three months. This is how he looked when U.S. troops found him last week