Soldiers of Seaforth Highlanders, Scottish Division, taking cover behind a Universal Carrier.

Shooting back

British soldiers line up German POWs at gunpoint, to ensure the transfer of dead bodies to mass graves at the liberated concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen; 1945.

Getting ready for burial

As forces of the British 8th Army enter the northern Italian city of Ferrara, the local inhabitants waste no time to go out and greet them. They seem to return the gesture... Kissing babies is just one of those things; April 24, 1945.