Those that didn't survive the last days of Auschwitz II - Birkenau are carried to burial...1945

(image taken from a Soviet film documentary, NFD)

A trail of sadness...

An American soldier pays the ultimate price for the United State's policy of quantity over quality in armored warfare in the ETO (Germany, March 1945).  Few American pictures (this one from Life magazine) displayed fallen American combatants due to censorship and the believed effects it would have on civilian morale - this policy was somewhat relaxed toward the end of the war, when there was no longer an ability to hide the tremendous losses incurred in a war on two major fronts.   I am unsure if this photograph was published during the war for public viewing. 

Germany, March 1945

A well known (hopefully not a repost!) image of Legionnaires of the 13e DBLE charging towards Axis lines at Bir Hakeim...May 1942.

Lesser known, &quot;In bitter irony, the Legionnaires of 13e DBLE faced Afrika Korps troops that included the German 361st &quot;Afrika&quot; Infantry Regiment which contained former fellow-Legionnaires of German extraction who had been repriated from Vichy Legion units in North Africa.&quot;