Pictured above is a bomber gunner, Major David G. Bellemere, behind whom is the B-24 heavy bomber Indian Teone Age Girl. The hanging-looking outfit was not designed to protect against nuclear radiation, but was an essential flight suit for pilots at an altitude of nearly 8,000 meters.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States soon declared war on Japan, and within a few days, Hitler also announced in the photo that Germany had declared war on the United States.
The photograph, taken minutes after the Japanese airstrike on civilian areas of Shanghai, was once in newspaper headlines around the world as crying babies contrasted sharply with the rubble. According to Hearst photographer H. S. Wong described that because of the emergency evacuation, he "did not have the opportunity to confirm the sex of the baby, while the mother's body was buried under the rubble not far away." ”
The 13 German officers standing in front of Hitler in the photo were all ace pilots of the Luftwaffe at the time, and they had just attended a ceremony at the time, and 8 of them had already confirmed the killing of 1486 people at that time.
In the spring of 1945, during the Offensive operation of the Red Army on Berlin, 3,881 German government officials and officers committed suicide in Berlin. In the photo are Berlin Deputy Mayor Ernst Kurt Lisso, his wife Renate Stephanie, and daughter Regina Lisso lying on a couch.
Muslim soldiers in the German SS 13th Division, all from Bosnia, perform prayer ceremonies while undergoing training. Himmler Heinrich, the second head of the German fascists, was himself fascinated by Islam, especially because these soldiers could become fearless through the power of faith.
In the counter-offensive against Germany, Dresden suffered a devastating blow, with thousands of civilian casualties. At the time, the Allied commander's order for the intensive bombardment of Dresden was also seen as one of the most controversial military decisions in the entire European theater.
After the battle of Stalingrad, a Soviet soldier was escorting a German prisoner, and after this battle, the low-ranking German prisoners were only grouped together and collectively executed.
Due to the difference in standard gauges used by the Soviet Union and Germany, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, it was necessary to rebuild the railway traffic network in the occupied areas. During the 1944 retreat, the Germans systematically implemented a scorched-earth policy to ensure that the Soviets could not obtain sufficient resources in the event of a counteroffensive.
The text attached to the photo reads: German war criminals in an American prisoner-of-war camp are watching a documentary about the German concentration camp. Since most of the Soldiers in the German Army were completely unaware of what nazi concentration camps were, the U.S. Military quickly found this extremely efficient way to educate war criminals.
The man in the coat in the photo is Stalin's eldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, they accidentally captured Yakov, whose rank was lieutenant at the time. According to some sources, Hitler offered to exchange Yakov for his nephew, but Stalin refused. The cause of Yakov's death is still unknown, but the official German record is that he was killed by touching the power grid in the concentration camp. But other documents show that Yakov was shot (in the head) for refusing to obey the guards' orders.
After the capture of Berlin, British, American and Soviet troops met in Berlin, and germany had surrendered for 2 months when this photo was taken. On the balcony of the Prime Minister's Palace, standing in the middle was Corporal Russell M. Ochwad (Corporal) from Chicago, next to him stood a British soldier and a Soviet soldier, who was imitating Hitler in his expression of war because he did not understand words