An image almost too perfectly symbolic of Berlin in 1945: A crushed globe and a bust of Hitler amid rubble outside the ruined Reich Chancellery.



The ultimate symbol

In a career highlight, Dr Joseph Goebbels addresses a full house at the Berlin Sportpalast, urging the need for total war to save Germany and Europe from Bolshevism.  A timely address, as recent defeats in North Africa and, in particular, at Stalingrad, had persuaded the Nazi administration, finally, to put the German economy (and its satrapies in the Occupied countries), on a full war footing.  Best regards, JR.

Total War.

Geisha’s show their disdain for British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, at a party in Tokyo. The initials W.C stand for Water Closet (toilet) in Europe and Asia. 1941.

