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Only authentic picture of the blowing up of the Dirschau railway bridge by the Poles. Three months after the destruction of the railway bridge near Dirschau over the Vistula, this impressive picture of the moment of the explosion arrived in Berlin, December 1.1939. This photo - the photographer claims - is the only one showing the actual blast.

Pope Pius blesses Romans after liberation of Eternal City. Pope Pius XII makes his first appearance in public following the liberation of Rome by the Allies on June 4, 1944. One day after the freeing of Rome from the Germans, the Holy Father speaks from a balcony of the Basilica of Saint Peter overlooking Saint Peter's Square and blesses a crowd of several hundred thousand Romans massed to hear his ...

U.S Army trucks hit near Remagen bridge. Soldiers of the First U.S. Army advancing to the Rhine River bridge at Remagen, Germany, pass wrecked and smoldering vehicles of their unit caught by a Nazi artillery barrage laid on the road loading to the span. Ninth Armored Division troops of the First Army seized the bridge intact March 7, 1945, in a surprise attack 10 minutes before the Nazis had scheduled ...

This was the town of Lidice. This child is seated on the stump of what once was a well-known cherry tree in the schoolyard at Lidice. The school was across the road from the town church. The destruction was so complete that even trees and bushes were cut down and burned. In the background is the edge of the former town. Lidice werd op 10 juni 1942 door de SS vernietigd als represaille voor de aanslag ...

The rise and fall of the Nazi state. The Disintegration of Germany. The Nazi Emblem Hangs Limply Among the Ruins - The swastika emblem of a tattered Nazi flag contrasts strangely with a shattered building in Berlin. Reminder of the great pre-war Nazi rallies when the Germans were incited to military conquest by the hystorical oratory of Hitler, the swastika has brought to Germany and the other nations ...