Emaciated man cleans a small child after they emerged from a cave to surrender to American troops during the battle for control of Saipan.

Emaciated man

American bulldozer digging mass grave for some of the 2,000 Japanese who died in a final suicide banzai attack on July 7, ending the fight for Saipan.

dozing mass grave

Especially at Army Group Center under Schörner, during the last stage of WW2, this was a normal picture. Who does not want to continue fighting in the senseless battle or was suspected to desertion after scattered, was immediately hanged or shot. Here a German Major on 8th April 1945