In the RubbleJanuary 11, 2012

Rotterdam, Netherlands: bombed flat by the Luftwaffe, 1940

London during the blitz, 1940

Sevastopol, USSR – 1942

Scorched-earth retreat: Germans destroy Soviet rails

Scorched-earth retreat: slaughtered cattle

Warsaw, 1944:The German army crushes a Polish

uprising

Caen, France: July 1944

Americans roll up northern Italy, spring 1945

Budapest, 1945:The Red Army

arrives

Cologne 1945

Hamburg 1945

Nuremberg1945

Dresden 1945

Berlin trams, winter 1944/45

Concentration camp inmates clear a dud

Soviet positions, Frankfurter Allee, April 1945

The Red Army fights house-to-house, late April 1945

Berlin-Friedrichstrasse, July 1945

Liberation in France:

“l’épuration”

Collaborators on trial(here: publicist Robert Brasillach)

Flight & expulsion of Germans from the East

Organized expulsions from Czechoslovakia

Flight and expulsion of ethnic Germans,

counted by region of

origin

Forced laborers serve the

Third Reich

Jewish DPs in Germany & Austria, mid-1947:ca. 250,000 still await resettling

Jewish DPs at study& at play

Jewish DPs re-dedicate a cemetery in Lübeck, 1948

UNRRA: The UN Relief and Rehabilitation Agency- Here: a “sister of charity,” Belgium, 1946

Military & civilian deaths in WW II (w/o Holocaust)France 212,000 267,000Germany/Austr. 5,500,000 1,840,000Hungary 300,000 80,000Italy 306,400 145,100Poland 400,000 2,200,000Romania 316,000 56,000Soviet Union 10,700,000 11,500,000U.K. 382,600 67,800United States 407,300 11,200Yugoslavia 446,000 514,000

Est. Holocaust deaths by select countriesCzechoslovakia 277,000France 83,000Germany/Austria 225,000Hungary 200,000Lithuania 140,000Netherlands 106,000Poland 3,000,000Romania 469,000Soviet Union

1,000,000Yugoslavia 67,000