Presumably 1942 found in 1990.
Novgorod region of the USSR

German killed by Lindemann's spade

Fallen Danish volunteer of Finnish Army, First Lieutenant Jörgen Hagemann, aged 24, a professional soldier from Copenhagen, Denmark. Hanko peninsula, July 1941.

Danish volunteer KIA

Fallen Danish volunteer First Lieutenant Jörgen Hagemann, washed and prepared for his funeral in a typical Finnish fashion. Hanko, 12 July 1941.

Danish KIA

Shooting of Woman and Child in Miropol

This photograph was taken by the Slovak soldier, Skrovina Lubomir, in Miropol, Ukraine in October 1941. It is one of two known photographs documenting the shooting of women and children at close range in a public park by Ukrainian policemen attached to Order Police Battalion 303. Lubomir testified in Prague in 1958 that he was in a unit guarding bridges when he and two others were assigned to attend the execution, at which 94 Jews (including 49 children) were murdered. The two shooters on the photo are Ukrainian, the 3 other Police commanders are German.

Source of the photo is USHMM, originally from Security Services Archive, Prague, H-770-3.0020.
taken from fb/Shadows of the Eastern front

Execution

"The hunger in the ghetto was so great... that people were laying on the streets and dying, little children went around begging."

Before the Nazis sent millions of Jewish prisoners to concentration camps across Europe, they held them inside ghettos where conditions were nothing short of horrifying. Masses of prisoners were packed seven people to a room while Nazis restricted food intake to about 180 calories per day.

Eventually, people simply got used to seeing everyone from infants to the elderly slowly dying of hunger on the streets.
I know it's been so long ago but when I came upon this photo I felt such a deep sorrow.I've seen terrible images over the years but this one hit home.Nobody should have suffered like that poor woman.I hope she's in a better place now
taken from fb/History uncovered

No words

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoya_Kosmodemyanskaya

Murdered Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Nov 29, 1941

US Staff Sergeant Francis Daggertt of the Military Police and a German boy soldier 10 years old captured in the city of Kronach, Germany 1945


Young and Old

Jewish prisoners of the Holocaust are photographed after being liberated from a German “Death Train” at the end of World War II, 1945
taken from fb/Pictures of history

Free...

Willi Ermann of Saarbrucken, a German Jewish soldier in World War I. Ermann was murdered at Auschwitz in the Holocaust.
taken from fb/Warhistory online

W.Ermann

A child gives another child a flower shortly after they arrive in Auschwitz in May 1944. Everyone in the photo was dead within hours of arrival.
taken from fb/Petr Munk Rudolf Sob

In sadness...

The Japanese beheaded the civilians of Nanking.

Nanking Beheading

Starving Allied POWs from the Pacific War. The Japanese didn't feed them much.

Starving POWs from Japanese camps

British officer instructs a couple of Japanese soldiers being used as policemen soon after the return of British forces to Singapore. August-September 1945.

Getting their orders

Three Polish men killed as part of a public execution for trading in sugar and flour in Kutno on June 9, 1941.
Laski Diffusion/Getty Images

Executed

“Still in their civilian clothes, newly arrived prisoners, among whom is a clergyman, stand at roll call in Buchenwald concentration camp."No date mentioned.
taken from FB/History of WW2

Roll call

A young Belgian woman and former Gestapo informer, being identified as she tried to hide in the crowd at the transit camp at Dessau. April 1945.
taken from fb/History collection

Caught

An Auschwitz survivor, A-125701, bares her chest to reveal the tattoo FELD-HURE ('field prostitute' in German)
 Nahalal, 1945
taken from fb

Without words

Sergeant George Meyer looks in disbelief at the scars from six direct hits against an enemy Mark VI Tiger tank. The thick armor of the Tiger withstood the successive impacts during the desperate fighting in the Bulge.

Shock and surprise

Boeing B-17 shot down by Flak, (Germany, 1945)

B-17 shot down

young prisoner belonging to the 12 ss pz division wounded by bullet to the jaw.

wounded

The Remains of a Chinese Soldier Killed in the Battle of Shanghai, Photograph by The Mainichi Press, Censored in 1937 and Finally Released to The Public in 1965. [1600 x 1185]

The Remains of a Chinese Soldier

Wehrmacht in the USSR

US soldier Julian Patrick of Kentucky, a member of the 3rd US Armored Division, killed in action inside his tank on March 6, 1945. The inside of a M4 Sherman tank was famously dangerous. Quoting Henry J. Earl: “The hit was low on the side. The interior of the tank was lit by a ball of fire caused by the terrific friction of the penetration. A white hot eighteen-pound projectile entered the empty ammunition rack under the floor. The earlier modes of the M-4 “Sherman” medium tank did not store ammunition under the turret floor. The steel walls of the compartment prevented the molten metal from striking the interior of the hulland ricocheting throughout the tank. This saved the crew.” Sadly, in this occasion, none steel wall protected nor saved this soldier.

Tank crewman KIA

Skeleteon remains of a german soldier in his helmet, and part of his remained torn uniform 
The photo was taken in the summer of 1945 around the mountains of Budapest
The soldier probably died after the outbreak of Siege of Budapest on or around 14th 1945
 



Memento

Colorized Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack in Pearl Harbor, December 1941.

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