Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai Shek celebrating together the Surrender of Japan, 1945.Aug 22 ⋅ Extreme-Shopping74 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #1946
As Soviet troops approached Berlin in 1945, zoo keepers did their best to take care of Berlin Zoo's animalsJul 6 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
Shirley Temple posing by a painting of herself as a young child, 1945.Jun 30 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
watching ticker tape fall from New York City buildings during celebrations of Germany’s surrender, 7 May 1945May 17 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #7
Troops returning home from Europe aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth after WWII ended, 1945.May 21 ⋅ Xdestroyed ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
She was liberated in Augsburg when the second largest Bavarian city fell to the Americans April 23, 1945May 7 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #23
Canadian soldiers getting ready to head home from Europe in 1945.Mar 16 ⋅ bncout ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
American airmen showing Ulithi natives a Corsair (1945)Oct 2025 ⋅ Turbulent-Offer-8136 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
Refrigerator units keeping blood at desired temperatures at the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945.Jun 11 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
known Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps, being sent to Dachau in 1944May 5 ⋅ ZERO_PORTRAIT ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1944 #1945 #2023 #99
This is WWII footage of a German soldier surrendering to the US Army in 1945.Jun 2 ⋅ SystematicApproach ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
US Army Soldier with crown of Holy Roman Empire, 1945Aug 17 ⋅ FallOutShelterBoy ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
his experiences after entering the recently liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in mid April 1945Jul 30 ⋅ ToronoRapture ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945.Apr 10 ⋅ bncout ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
Marshall Vasily Chuikov - Twice Hero of Soviet Union - Commanding the 62nd Army in Stalingrad (1942).Jul 29 ⋅ Gold-Fool84 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1942 #1945
A German general and a young Soviet boy who took him prisoner. (1945)Mar 2025 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
The Liberation of Korea from 35 Years of the Japanese occupation on 15th August, 1945.Aug 15 ⋅ K-jun1117 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #35
diplomat Folke Bernadotte, who negotiated the release of over 30K prisoners from nazi concentration camps (1945Jan 2025 ⋅ soalone34 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
In May 1945, the German Type IXC U-boat U-858 became the first Kriegsmarine vessel to surrender to theMar 22 ⋅ bncout ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #858 #1
Japanese soldier sees his child for the first time after the war, 1945 Japan4d ⋅ Constant_State_2272 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
A woman with her possessions in the ruins of Cologne, Germany. 1945Oct 2024 ⋅ Used_Ship_9229 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, 1945.Oct 2024 ⋅ Puzzleheaded-Fix9500 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Soviet soldiers drink with Americans for Victory, May 1945.Mar 26 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
Elser was tortured in the following 5 years before his execution on 9 April 1945Aug 5 ⋅ WillyNilly1997 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #62 #5 #8 #9
Dead SS Guard, Floating in Canal by Lee Miller (Dachau, Germany, 1945)Jun 11 ⋅ harlem-nocturne ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #Germany #Dachau #Dachau-Germany-1945 #1945
German Instrument of Surrender at the headquarters of the 5th Shock Army in Karlshorst, Berlin, 8 May 1945Jul 30 ⋅ NextDocument1906 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #8
camp laugh or cry uncontrollably at the thought of being free after years of confinement, 29 April 1945Apr 30 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #29
Zofia Posmysz's mugshot after being arrested for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in 1942, aged 19.Feb 2025 ⋅ ZERO_PORTRAIT ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
his weapon to Sub-Lieutenant Anthony Martin of the British forces in Saigon, Vietnam, in September 1945Aug 6 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton near Shuri, Okinawa, in May, 1945Oct 2024 ⋅ InternationalLaw8823 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
America bombing Japanese city of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945Nov 2024 ⋅ pzpzpzososos ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
soldiers proudly showing off their Easter egg gifts ( 155 mm artillery shells ) for Adolf hitler , 1945Jun 2025 ⋅ DizzyDoctor982 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #m #155-mm-artillery-shells #155
Last known photo of Hitler at the entrance to the Bunker where he died hours later 1945Nov 2024 ⋅ Puzzleheaded_Ice7984 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
He lived a long life, passing away on November 8, 1945, at the age of 95.Mar 9 ⋅ bncout ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1915 #1945 #66 #95 #8
eating breakfast in his cell at Nuremberg on the first day of his trial for crimes against humanity, 1945Apr 22 ⋅ zig_zag-wanderer ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1516x1200 #1200 #1516 #1945
A Japanese soldier buried in the sand is given a cigarette by a US Marine. 1945: Iwo Jima.Nov 2024 ⋅ hotbabetoyx ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group being briefed at Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945Nov 2024 ⋅ Cybermat4707 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
He lived in Czechoslovakia until 1945 like a real knight, in a castle, without electricity or cars.Dec 2024 ⋅ WorldofJedi727 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
bullets and cannon shells in an underground munitions factory on the Wirral, Merseyside, England, in 1945Jun 8 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
In 1945, 2 German snipers surrendered to a soldier with the 87th Infantry Division near Koblenz, GermanyJan 2025 ⋅ Minute_Switch3278 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
The sign erected by British forces at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on May 29, 1945.Jan 2025 ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
19-year-old Soviet sniper, Roza Shanina, had 59 confirmed kills, 1945Nov 2024 ⋅ nicolexs1 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
My father returning home from World War II in Europe: March 1945, Queens, NYSep 2024 ⋅ Blue-bery ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
A German orphan trying to sell his father's Iron Cross for cigarettes in Berlin, 1945.Oct 2024 ⋅ Last-Somewhere-9511 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
The first image, on the left, was taken the day he went to fight in the war, age 30 in June 1941, andJul 6 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1941 #1945 #30 #4
A former concentration camp inmate poses for a photo with a surrendering Nazi. 1945.Feb 2025 ⋅ ZERO_PORTRAIT ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
travel journalist turned war correspondent, shares cigarettes with some Marines on Okinawa, April 8, 1945May 2025 ⋅ AbeVigoda76 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
The last photo taken of Mussolini alive, 3 days before his death, 1945Jul 2024 ⋅ AyeeAnonymous ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
carrier USS Franklin approaches Manhattan as it prepares to dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on April 28, 1945Mar 16 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #800 #19 #28
Puyi, last emperor of the Qing dynasty, after capture by Soviet soldiers, 1945.Sep 2024 ⋅ FakeElectionMaker ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Berlin 1945 -A plane hangs from the top of a five-story-buildingOct 2024 ⋅ Less-Style-6872 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Soviet poet Jewgeni Dolmatowski with the head of a hitler bust, Berlin, 1945.Sep 2024 ⋅ AlfredusRexSaxonum ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Wedding rings that were removed from Holocaust victims before they were executed (1945)May 14 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
A US Marine asks two very young Japanese child soldiers some questions after WWII, Okinawa 1945Jan 2025 ⋅ Plane_Amoeba_8840 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
his staff looked grim as the war situation did not go their way with Berlin just around the corner.(19456d ⋅ taehunLee1919 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
forced into sex slavery at Auschwitz bares the inscription of Feld-Hure, tattooed on her chest in, 1945Jan 2025 ⋅ TheGracefulSlick ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
The Warsaw Royal Castle before (1900s) and after the German occupation (1945).Dec 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1900s #1945
Bernard Montgomery and other British officers at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on July 12, 1945Jun 22 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #12
American soldiers and sailors partying in Tokyo, Japan in 1945.Jul 6 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
soldiers share a dance upon their meet-up at the River Elbe near Torgau, Saxony, Germany on the 26 April 1945Aug 3 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #26
Auschwitz officer Irma Grese on trial for war crimes at only 22 years old, September 1945May 14 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #22
Charred bones, Buchenwald, Germany, April 1945, Photo by Lee Miller.Jun 28 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
A Jewish girl and her Chinese friends in the Shanghai Ghetto, circa 1945.Dec 2024 ⋅ ZERO_PORTRAIT ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Toma was captured in 1945, and locked up in insane asylum for speaking gibberish.Apr 4 ⋅ bncout ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #2000 #2004
This is the Reichstag on May 1, 1945, captured in a photo taken by a Pravda military correspondent fromJul 19 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #1 #2
Japanese Emperor Hirohito making the announcement of Japan’s unconditional surrender on September 2, 1945Apr 22 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #2
Negotiations between Ukrainian and Polish insurgents in the village of Ruda Rozaniecka, Lublin region. 21 May 1945Jul 5 ⋅ NextDocument1906 ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #21
oldest Irish tavern in NYC, opened in 1854 and remained a “Men Only” pub until 1970, New York City (1945Aug 13 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1854 #1945 #1970
Eisenhower sat for this portrait during a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (June, 1945).Jul 21 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #June #June-1945 #1945
Winston Churchill sitting on what was left of Hitler's chair in 1945Sep 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
An American soldier discovers Hitler's name in the prison register of Landsberg Prison in 1945; HitlerMar 2025 ⋅ ZERO_PORTRAIT ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Russian inmate identifies a cruel camp guard at Buchenwald, 1945Sep 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Soviet and American soldiers celebrating together in Germany in May 1945, following Nazi Germany's unconditionalJul 2 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
Bradley, and George Patton a mass grave in the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp on April 12, 1945Jun 16 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #12
Photo by Mendel Grossman, killed on April 30, 1945, the same day Hitler died.Feb 2025 ⋅ ZERO_PORTRAIT ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Cabbage booby-trapped by Japanese troops using a Type 97 grenade on the island of Okinawa, in April, 19456d ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #97
American DUKW-353 amphibians navigate the canals of Venice, Italy, 1945.Jan 2025 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
A 17-year-old boy carefully inspects his face after his first shave in Des Moines, 1945.Jun 28 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945 #17
Female snipers of the Third Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front, photographed in Germany in May, 1945.Jun 11 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1945
An Allied truck passes a King Tiger somewhere on the roads of Belgium in early 1945.Mar 29 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #Colorized #1945
A teenager reading, having a cola and a box of Cheez-It before going to bed in Des Moines, Iowa, 1945Jan 2025 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
B-25 Bomber accidentally flies into the Empire State building. 1945.Oct 2024 ⋅ bncout ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Prisoners being liberated from Wobbelin concentration camp, 1945Nov 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Soviet soldiers in Berlin in 1945 with the youngest Red Army soldier.Apr 2025 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Adolf Hitler Street becomes Roosevelt Boulevard (in 1945)Oct 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #in-1945
A sign bearing Hitler's quote, Give me 5 years and you won't recognise Germany, Berlin, 1945.Sep 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
The inventor of the helicopter, Igor Sikorsky, in the Sikorsky H-5 helicopter, 1945.May 2025 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Nazi war criminals laugh at a translation mistake during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945.Sep 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
concentration camp inmate holds a human bone from a pile of other bones found in the Buchenwald crematorium. 1945Sep 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
American servicemen salute a Soviet traffic controller at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, 1945.Sep 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
People in Times Square in New York celebrate the surrender of Germany, May 7, 1945Aug 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
British soldiers after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945.Jun 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
April, 1945. He would die of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63 the following day.Sep 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
An 18 year old Russian girl during the WW2 liberation of Dachau concentration camp, 1945.Jun 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
German war criminals laugh at a translation mistake during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945.Jul 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Photo taken at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. (1941-1945)Mar 29 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule ⋅ #1941-1945
Soviet soldiers take a souvenir photo in the ruins of Berlin, 1945Sep 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
year-old Russian girl looks into the camera lens during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in 1945Apr 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
Allegedly the last picture of Adolf Hitler before he committed suicide on April 30, 1945.Mar 2024 ⋅ zadraaa ⋅ r/HistoricalCapsule
