Sophie Scholl, activist in the "White Rose" resistance group in the University of Munich, which aimed to distribute information on the true nature and crimes of the Nazi regime, and of the war.  Sophie and her brother, Hans, along with colleague Christoph Probst, were found guilty of treason by a session of the People's Court and executed by decapitation on the same day, 22 February, 1943.  In sadness, JR.

White Rose - Sophie Scholl.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) welcomes US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) during the second Quebec Conference (Code named OCTAGON September 12-16, 1944).

Welcome Mr. President

The Drancy housing estate, in deprived (still deprived) north-west Paris, was envisaged prewar as a "model housing development".  It is infamous, however, as a holding/transit camp for French Jews on their way "east", run by the French (Vichy) Police but controlled by the German security department (SD).  

Apart from the availability of the accommodation, the Drancy estate was selected for this purpose in large part because of its proximity to a number of access points to the excellent railway system around Paris.  Jews arriving from relatively distant locations could be transported to an adjacent railway station and bussed to Drancy; those heading outwards for "resettlement" in the East could be transported for entrainment to any one of a number of railway stations or sidings in the vicinity.  

This official photo shows happy-looking Jews posing on the balconies of one of the "model" apartment blocks.  They were unlikely to be happy for long.  The last transport of Jews from Drancy left at the very point of the city's liberation.  In sadness, JR.