[Sharon]

With torn picture of his feuhrer beside his clenched fist, a dead general of the Volkssturm lies on the floor of city hall, Leipzig, Germany. He committed suicide rather than face U.S. Army troops who captured the city on April 19, 1945


Hungry french civilians take what they can from a dead cow slaughtered by the Allied troops during Normandy Invasion


Four machine gunners show off their haircuts


Japanese prisoners of war are bathed, clipped, "deloused," and issued GI clothing as soon as they are taken aboard the USS New Jersey. Prisoner bathing. December 1944


Burgomeister of Leipzig commited suicide in his office together with wife and daughter as 69th Infantry Division and 9th Armored Division closed on city. Germany, April 20, 1945


Casualties of a mass panic; during Japanese air raid, 4,000 people were trampled or suffocated to death trying to return to shelters. Chungking, China, June 5, 1941


This Polish Jew was shot in cold blood by the retreating Germans as the 3rd U.S. Army advanced into the Ohrdruf area, Germany. April 12, 1945


This girl pays the penalty for having had personal relations with the Germans. Here, in the Montelimar area, France, French civilians shave her head as punishment. August 20, 1944


British Trooper W. Williamson does his good deed for the day by rescuing a puppy dog from the ruins of a shelled German house on the outskirts of Geilenkirchen


A truck load of bodies of prisoners of the Nazis, in the Buchenwald concentration camp at Weimar, Germany. The bodies were about to be disposed of by burning when the camp was captured by troops of the 3rd U.S. Army. April 14, 1945


Bones of anti-Nazi German women still are in the crematoriums in the German concentration camp at Weimar, Germany, taken by the 3rd U.S. Army. Prisoners of all nationalities were tortured and killed. April 14, 1945


Crash landing of F6F on flight deck of USS Enterprise while enroute to attack Makin Island. Lt. Walter Chewning, catapult officer, clambering up the side of the plane to assist pilot, Ens. Byron Johnson, from the flaming cockpit. November 1943


This man's dead body, aflame, bears ghastly witness of the horror of the damage done by V-2 on main intersection in Antwerp on main supply line to Holland. Belgium, ca. November 27, 1944

[Photoplay]

Awesome quality Black and Whites.
Love the :Four machine gunners show off their haircuts:

[Kelseecat65]

Love anything WWII! Excellent post!!

[p4irs]

im a ww2 freak i have like 20 books and one of them is picture gallery and i have never seen these pictures,,very nice

[Ratzerfratzer]

Amazing photos. So brutal. Those WW pictures are just haunting, what a horrible time to live through, if you survived. Makes me mad that those Germans killed themselves instead of having the guts to face the music. Cowards to the end.

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by Ratzerfratzer ↗

Amazing photos. So brutal. Those WW pictures are just haunting, what a horrible time to live through, if you survived. Makes me mad that those Germans killed themselves instead of having the guts to face the music. Cowards to the end.

There were also a decent amount of women near the Russian advance with young daughters, who would kill their children, then themselves, for fear of what the Russians would do to them.