Two local Italian nurses dress injuries for two British soldiers in front of the Cathedral of Sant'Agata in Via Vittorio Emanuele II, Catania, Sicily. August 5, 1943.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American serviceman shares his rations with two Japanese children in Okinawa, 1945.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Members of the French Resistance rest against a barricade during the Battle for Paris. August 1944.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
An Allied Soldier takes a break during the approach to Tripoli, Libya beside a swastika and the words Heil Hitler that have been carved into a rocky hillside, January, 1943.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Actual photograph of United States Army Medic Desmond T. Doss standing on top of Hacksaw Ridge during World War II, Okinawa (1945). Incredibly, Doss single-handedly saved the lives of 75 wounded infantrymen while under heavy fire. He is also the inspiration for the film Hacksaw Ridge.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet soldiers (one wearing an armoured plate!) fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
A New Zealand soldier poses in front of the wreckage of a German plane his unit shot down with Bren machine guns in Greece. In his hands he holds a German helmet as a souvenir, while an unexploded bomb from the aircraft is close proximity to him. April 1941. (Photo by George Silk)1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet and American soldiers share a dance upon their meet-up at the River Elbe near Torgau, Saxony, Germany. April 26th, 1945.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Hitler reacts to a kiss from an excited Carla de Vries, a 40-year-old American woman at the Berlin Olympics, 1936.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Greece. Women and children mourn their relatives at the memorial service of the Kalavryta massacre when on December 13, 1943 the German army executed nearly 700 civilians and burned more than 1000 houses. Probably December 1944.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Ocrober 1940: Her son is leaving for the Italian front and his mother offers him an icon of Saint George for protection. Until the Nazi intervention in April 1942, the Italian casualties were nearly 40.000 dead and missing (plus 26.000 POW) while the Greeks lost about 14.000 men.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soviet IS-2 heavy tanks near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany after the fall of Berlin in May 1945. Colourised PIECE of JAKE2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
June 30, 1944 | 2,044 Jews arrive in Auschwitz in a transport from Athens and Corfu Island. After selection, 446 men and 175 women are admitted to the camp. The remaining 1,423 people are immediately killed in the gas chambers.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Greece,October 5, 1944. Men of the RAF Regiment share their early morning breakfast rations with a little Greek boy.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army, 1945. Between 1941–1945, a total of 2,484 Soviet female snipers were functioning in this role, of whom about 500 survived the war.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Russian women marching in front of a Wehrmacht unit to protect the Germans from land mines or partisan attacks.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Staff at Belzec extermination camp. Lorenz Hackenholt, the man third from the right in the black gloves, usually started the engine used to produce the lethal gas.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
The reaction of a Japanese prisoner of war while listening to the announcement of the surrender of the Japanese Empire of Shoa - Guam1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Laughing Nazi soldiers watching the humiliation of Greek Jews in Liberation Square, Thessaloniki, 1942.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Gordon ‘Gordy’ Carson and Frank Perconte of E (Easy ) Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division lean against a wooden fence on the banks of the Dommel River, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 17/18 September 1944. Both troopers survived WW2 and returned safe home. Colourised PIECE of JAK2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Roger Godfrein, sole survivor of a massacre in which German forces locked 643 citizens (including 500 women and children) inside and set fire to a church in Oradour-sur-Glane, France, on June 10, 19441yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
June 2, 1941. A few days after the Nazi invasion in the island of Crete, the German army excuted 25 men 18-50 years old from Kontomari village as reprisals to the fierce resitance of the Cretans. The whole murder scene was captured by army photographer Franz-Peter Weixler. This is the firing squad.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
On the night of May 30, 1941, nearly a month after Athens occupation by the Axis, two Greek students, Apostolos Santas (left) and Manolis Glezos, climbed quitely on the ancient hill of Acropolis and brought down the German flag - the first act of Resistance in the occupied Europe.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Members of the communist-led People's Liberation Army (ELAS) after the liberation of the city of Nafplion, Southern Greece.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
French man attacks a German soldier being marched through the streets of Paris following his capture by members of the French Resistance. August 1944.1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Russian boy-partisan. Only 20% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 survived the war.2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
Chrysoula Paplazarides-Leventis, one of the many women who fought in the Greek Civil War (1946-49) with the communist Greek Democratic Army (photo: Apostolis Mousouris)2yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
1944. Bulgarian anti-fascist guerrillas of the Vasil Levski group in Didimoticho,Greece. These pro-Communist guerrillas worked closely with communist-led People's Liberation Army (ELAS)1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics
February 4,1945, Greek city of Kalamata, parade of guerillas from the communist-led People's Liberation Army (ELAS)1yr ⋅ getintough ⋅ r/wwiipics