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A mountain trooper hoists the German national flag from a tall building, somewhere in the Balkans, following the defeat of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia capitulated on 17 April 1941, 11 days after the invasion commenced. German losses were significantly light, which totaled 151 killed, 392 wounded, and 14 missing.
People of Eger salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (now Cheb, Czech Republic), October 1938.
German civilians watch as the furnishings of the Mosbach synagogue are burned in the town square. Mosbach, Germany, 9 November 1938.
Jews arrested during Kristallnacht line up for roll call at Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, Germany, 1938.
Pictured here is a synagogue in Korbach, Germany after it was destroyed during Kristallnacht. Most Jews had left Korbach before Kristallnacht. The remaining Jews were later deported. Rabbi Moritz Goldwein, the rabbi of the synagogue in Korbach, and his wife Rosa, were able to send their son, Manfred, to America before the deportations began. Rabbi Moritz and Rosa Goldwein later perished in Auschwitz.
Burning synagogue in Bielefeld, Germany during the Kristallnacht pogrom, prelude to the Holocaust, 9-10 November, 1938.
Japanese battleship Yamato maneuvers from US air attacks in the Inland Sea. Photographed from a USS Hornet, 19 March 1945.
Depth charges dropped by Coast Guard on German U-Boat in the North Atlantic, April 1943. Photo by combat photographer Jack January or Bob Gates.
(Source: cecici)
