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Bloody casualties, bombed out cities and weary men: The horrors of World War II revealed in never-before-seen pictures of the Western Front taken by a four-star general.

An American soldier decorates the grave of an unknown U. S An American soldier decorates the grave of an unknown U.S. soldier, who was buried by the enemy before retreating.

A French truck burns ferociously after its cargo of 800 gallons of gasoline explodes and catches fire.

The bodies of two German soldiers lie together in a gutter in France.

Troops string wire past four German artillery horses that were killed along with five German soldiers in this street.

An American tank is seen driving down a battle-ravaged street in Rohrwiller, France, on February 4, 1945.

A knocked-out American tank sits beside a similarly wrecked German tank on a street on the Western Front.

A tank moves through the ruins of a freshly retaken French town, while two medics attend to a fallen soldier on the roadside.

A French Resistance fighter smiles at a German firing squad.

American soldiers examine the aftermath of a shelling.

American soldiers raid a building where German soldiers were thought to be hiding out and holding prisoners at the end of a three-day battle.

Three dead German Waffen-SS Troops lie on the ground after trying to stop the advance of an American armored column.

Advancing US troops are seen moving through a city, with an American soldier lying dead on the ground.

A US soldier surveys the scene after a pair of German Howitzers were destroyed in an attack by the Seventh Army.

In Bobenthal, Germany, US soldiers on the hunt for snipers are held up when their heavy artillery gets stuck in the mud.

The bodies of infantrymen lay in a ditch at the side of a road near Saarbrucken, and are marked with a helmet placed upon a rifle.

US engineers blow up a bridge in a German town as a defense measure against enemy troops trying to invade the settlement.

Germans lie dead on the ground after the Seventh Army broke through the Siegfried Line.

American soldiers try to cross the street with the protection of a Sherman tank while under fire from a sniper.

This bombed-out town is thought to be Freiburg im Breisgau, which was on the southern part of the German Siegfried line.

Yet another obliterated German town on the Western Front.

German civilians begin the clear-up of their bombed-out town.

Austrian women commit suicide as the Red Army approaches.

Seventh Army soldiers raid a home in Bobenthal, Germany, looking for snipers.

An explosion is seen during the battle to retake the French town of Wingen-sur-Moder.

A German machine gunner lays dead beside his weapon after suffering a shot through the head in Germany.

The bodies of dead German soldiers are piled up on the ground as snow falls in France.

German prisoners help to dig graves for scores of American and German casualties in a makeshift cemetery.

This is an iconic photograph picturing the imminent execution of a Jewish man in the vicinity of the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia during a massacre perpetrated by the Nazi SS.

German troops surrendering to the Allies near the town of Landeck, Austria.

Prisoners of war from the German military police and Gestapo are led by French resistance fighters in Strasbourg, France.

One thousand German soldiers march down the mountains that lead to an important Austrian town as they surrender to Allied troops.

German troops surrender to the Seventh Army in the Bavarian mountain town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

A German soldier returns home to find that his family no longer there.