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The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
Operation Tannenberg (German: Unternehmen Tannenberg, Polish: Operacja Tannenberg) was a codename for one of the anti-Polish extermination actions by Nazi Germany. [3] The shootings were conducted with the use of a proscription list (Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen) targeting Poland’s elite, compiled by the Gestapo in the two years before the invasion of Poland.
Operation Tannenbaum ("Fir Tree"), known earlier as Operation Grün ("Green"), [1] was a planned invasion of Switzerland and Liechtenstein by the Axis Powers during World War II. Background [ edit ]
In the beginning, women in Nazi Germany were not involved in the Wehrmacht, as Adolf Hitler ideologically opposed conscription for women, [3] stating that Germany would "not form any section of women grenade throwers or any corps of women elite snipers." [4] However, with many men going to the front, women were placed in auxiliary positions within the Wehrmacht, called Wehrmachtshelferinnen ...
After nearly 80 years and more than a half-million photos, Tony Vaccaro still vividly remembers the pictures he broke US Army rules to take.
An appeal to self-interest during World War II, by the United States Office of War Information (restored by Yann) Wait for Me, Daddy , by Claude P. Dettloff (restored by Yann ) Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau at Auschwitz Album , by the Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst (restored by Yann )
Pages in category "World War II photographs" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Rochambelles were the first women’s unit integrated into an armored division on the western front during World War II. A total of 51 women served in the First Company, 13th medical battalion of the French Second Armored Division from 1943 to 1945, and then some members continued on to Indochina.