[American paratrooper lying on the ground next to his parachute, which is caught on a wire, near Wesel, Germany]

[American paratroopers who had crash-landed in gliders, near Wesel, Germany]

[German farm couple seeking refuge from the fighting, near Wesel, Germany]

[German soldiers captured by American forces, near Wesel, Germany]

[German soldiers surrendering, Leipzig, Germany]

[American soldier herding German soldiers, Leipzig, Germany]

[American soldier Hubert Strickland giving a mock Nazi salute at the stadium in Nuremberg, Germany]

[Toppled statues and ruined church, Berlin]

[People on street lined with ruined buildings and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche), Berlin]

[American soldier selling a watch to a Russian soldier, Berlin]

[First Rosh Hashanah service to be held in any of the city's synagogues since 1938, Fraenkelufer Synagogue, Berlin]

[Starving orphan, Amsterdam]

[Women on a collective farm working the hay, Ukraine]

[Boy holding a tomato in the field of a collective farm, Ukraine]

[Children riding ponies in a lake on a collective farm, Ukraine]

[Watching the final matches of the national competition of Georgian wrestling, Gori, Georgian Soviet Republic]

[Young couple with child on park bench, Moscow]

[Russian poet and novelist Konstantin Simonov, Moscow]

[John Steinbeck, Moscow]

[Café amidst the rubble, Budapest]

[Man and boy adjusting a window, Budapest]

[Woman and child walk past a shoe store, Budapest]

[Roman Catholic Church standing amidst the bulldozed rubble of the Warsaw ghetto, Warsaw]

[Horse drawn wagon amidst the rubble, Warsaw]