1. In the Rubble January 11, 2012

2. Rotterdam, Netherlands: bombed flat by the Luftwaffe, 1940

3. London during the blitz, 1940

4. Sevastopol, USSR – 1942

5. Scorched-earth retreat: Germans destroy Soviet rails

6. Scorched-earth retreat: slaughtered cattle

7. Warsaw, 1944: The German army crushes a Polish uprising

8. Caen, France: July 1944

9. Americans roll up northern Italy, spring 1945

10. Budapest, 1945: The Red Army arrives

11. Cologne 1945

12. Hamburg 1945

13. Nuremberg 1945

14. Dresden 1945

15. Berlin trams, winter 1944/45

16. Concentration camp inmates clear a dud

17. Soviet positions, Frankfurter Allee, April 1945

18. The Red Army fights house-to-house, late April 1945

19. Berlin-Friedrichstrasse, July 1945

20. Liberation in France: “l’épuration”

21. Collaborators on trial (here: publicist Robert Brasillach)

22. Flight & expulsion of Germans from the East

23. Organized expulsions from Czechoslovakia

24. Flight and expulsion of ethnic Germans, counted by region of origin

25. Forced laborers serve the Third Reich

26. Jewish DPs in Germany & Austria, mid-1947: ca. 250,000 still await resettling

27. Jewish DPs at study & at play

28. Jewish DPs re-dedicate a cemetery in Lübeck, 1948

29. UNRRA: The UN Relief and Rehabilitation Agency - Here: a “sister of charity,” Belgium, 1946

30. Military & civilian deaths in WW II (w/o Holocaust) France212,000267,000 Germany/Austr.5,500,0001,840,000 Hungary300,00080,000 Italy306,400145,100 Poland400,0002,200,000 Romania316,00056,000 Soviet Union10,700,00011,500,000 U.K.382,60067,800 United States407,30011,200 Yugoslavia446,000514,000

31. Est. Holocaust deaths by select countries Czechoslovakia277,000 France 83,000 Germany/Austria225,000 Hungary200,000 Lithuania140,000 Netherlands106,000 Poland 3,000,000 Romania 469,000 Soviet Union 1,000,000 Yugoslavia 67,000