This photo of a French parade between the wars is on such a grand scale ,you can sense the chill and feel the pride. 

Le grand parade.

A lace curtain shrouds the body of an American soldier awaiting burial in the Bastogne cemetery. "This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war," Winston Churchill said in the House of Commons following the Battle of the Bulge, "and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever-famous American victory."



Awaiting burial

An alleged Jewish Commissar in 1941; the photo was taken after he was captured and the original German archive caption claims 'He shot from ambush on our invading troops.'