In the Rubble January 11, 2012

Rotterdam, Netherlands: bombed flat by the Luftwaffe, 1940

London during the blitz, 1940

Sevastopol, USSR – 1942

Scorched-earth retreat: Germans destroy Soviet rails

Scorched-earth retreat: slaughtered cattle

Warsaw, 1944: The German army crushes a Polish uprising

Caen, France: July 1944

Americans roll up northern Italy, spring 1945

Budapest, 1945: The Red Army arrives

Cologne 1945

Hamburg 1945

Nuremberg 1945

Dresden 1945

Berlin trams, winter 1944/45

Concentration camp inmates clear a dud

Soviet positions, Frankfurter Allee, April 1945

The Red Army fights house-to-house, late April 1945

Berlin-Friedrichstrasse, July 1945

Liberation in France: “l’épuration”

Collaborators on trial (here: publicist Robert Brasillach)

Flight & expulsion of Germans from the East

Organized expulsions from Czechoslovakia

Flight and expulsion of ethnic Germans, counted by region of origin

Forced laborers serve the Third Reich

Jewish DPs in Germany & Austria, mid-1947: ca. 250,000 still await resettling

Jewish DPs at study & at play

Jewish DPs re-dedicate a cemetery in Lübeck, 1948

UNRRA: The UN Relief and Rehabilitation Agency - Here: a “sister of charity,” Belgium, 1946

Military & civilian deaths in WW II (w/o Holocaust) France212,000267,000 Germany/Austr.5,500,0001,840,000 Hungary300,00080,000 Italy306,400145,100 Poland400,0002,200,000 Romania316,00056,000 Soviet Union10,700,00011,500,000 U.K.382,60067,800 United States407,30011,200 Yugoslavia446,000514,000

Est. Holocaust deaths by select countries Czechoslovakia277,000 France 83,000 Germany/Austria225,000 Hungary200,000 Lithuania140,000 Netherlands106,000 Poland 3,000,000 Romania 469,000 Soviet Union 1,000,000 Yugoslavia 67,000