Wire-haired fox terrier "Beauty", photographed with her human, PDSA (People's Dispensary for Sick Animals) Superintendent Bill Barnet, who was credited with rescuing 63 animals from the ruins of the London Blitz, 1940-'41, in recognition of which she was awarded the PDSA Dickin Medal - the "Animals' Victoria Cross".  Best regards, JR.

Wire Haired Heroine.

Members of the Volkssturm with guns and Panzerfausts during an exercise in the park of Sanssouci in Potsdam, autumn 1944

Volkssturm exercise

Children sheltering from an air raid in the early stages of the Battle of Stalingrad, Autumn 1942.  Seems to have a certain topicality at the moment ... JR.