A thread of World War II images you’ve (probably) never seen before

sadaqatali84 (46)in #steemexclusive • 6 months ago

^{1. Adolf Hitler with 2 of the Goebbels girls. The 2 girls, along with their other 4 siblings, were murdered with cyanide by their parents in 1945.}

^{2. An American soldier turns a blind eye in the background as former Dachau prisoners prepare to execute an SS guard with a shovel. The guard was known to terrorize and murder men, women & children. (April 29th, 1945)}

^{3. Aerial photograph of Auschwitz-Birkenau on December 21, 1944.}

^{4. Sgt. Leonard Siffleet moments before being executed by a Japanese officer}

^{5. The Imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S Sussex. 1945.}

^{6. An allied soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to have a bath in the port city of Tobruk, Libya. 17 February 1942.}

^{7. US Marine Hayes points to himself on the "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" photo. He had a tragic and short life after the war, he was found dead lying near an abandoned adobe hut in Sacaton, Arizona, in 1955, aged 32. He died of exposure to cold & alcohol poisoning.}

^{8. British infantryman advancing through a smokescreen during training in 1941}

^{10. A Japanese soldier using a Chinese prisoner for bayonet practice}

^{11. Rather than surrender to the Red Army, citizens of Demmin committed ‘selbstmord’. 1,000 killed themselves within 72 hours. Soviet officers and soldiers view a family of Nazi suicide April, 1945. The Red Army took over German towns, liberated prisoners, and terrorized civilians.}

^{12. A German saboteur, captured while wearing a U.S. Army uniform during the battle of the Bulge, is lashed to a stake moments before his execution by a firing squad in Belgium.}