IMAGO International History, Second World War, 1939-1945

Jul 6, 2023

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IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 The German-soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939 The bombing of Warsaw: view from a German Junkers Ju 52 bomber of smoke rising over the outskirts of the city. Copyright: xpiemagsx piemagsminpressage26042022-522 !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 The German-soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939 Death and destruction by the roadside at Kock, where the last battle of the Polish campaign between Polish Independent Operational Group Polesie commanded by General Franciszek Kleeberg and German XIV Motorised Corps led by General Gustav von Wietersheim, took place. Between 29 and 30 September this particular Polish unit was also engaged in victorious battles against Red Army at villages of Milanow and Jab?o?. Copyright: xpiemagsx piemagsminpressage26042022-521 !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!
Polen, Ein älterer Jude, der von der deutschen Armee mit der Beseitigung der Trümmer beauftragt wird, 09 1939 ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and one of the main architects of the Holocaust. He was SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei (Senior Group Leader and Chief of Police) as well as chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD).<br ><br > He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, in what is now the Czech Republic. Heydrich chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which formalised plans for the Final Solution to the Jewish Question the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe.<br ><br > Heydrich was attacked in Prague on 27 M xSupplier:xCPAxMediaxCo.xLtd.x Copyright: xx
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 German prisoners march through the snowy streets of battered Stalingrad in Jan.-Feb. 1943. Wrapped in blankets or anything else to protect from the winter weather, they are the remnants of the destroyed German 6th Army. Of the 107,800 soldiers taken priso For usage credit please use; PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL040 EC124
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Goose-stepping German troops in a Victory parade through Warsaw, Poland. Sept. 1939. World War 2. (BSLOC_2014_10_285) For usage credit please use; PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL037 EC982
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Reinhard Heydrich, Director of the Nazi Gestapo, and occupation leader western Czechoslovakia. His assassination by Czech partisans resulted in German retaliatory murders of 1300 civilians from the nearby villages of Lidice and Lezaky in June 1942. World For usage credit please use; PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL037 EC621
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Reinhard Heydrich speaking with Hermann Goering at Goering s birthday celebration, Jan. 12, 1942. In this same month, January 1942, Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference, which planned the final solution for the deportation and extermination of all Je For usage credit please use; PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL037 EC620
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Adolf Hitler in Compiegne, France. He speaks with German generals in front of same train carriage in which the 1918 World War 1 Armistice had been signed. Central group, L-R: Wilhelm Keitel, Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess, Erich Raeder (obscured) Joachim von For usage credit please use; PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL037 EC535
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Emperor Hirohito delivering a message to Japanese War Minister, Lt. General Hideki Tojo. They were at a military review to mark the 2600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire. Oct. 21, 1941. (BSLOC_2013_11_126) Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL036 EC272
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 ENOLA GAY- Colonel Paul Tibbets, Commanding Officer of the 506th Bombardment Group, standing before the Enola Gay, the B-29 airplane which dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Photo taken August 1945. - CPL Ar CPL Archives Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCPLxArchives EverettxCollectionx HBDENGA CL001
World War II The Warsaw Ghetto at the time of the Liberation in 1945 Credit Collection KHARBINE TAPABOR KH28747
Second World War Crematorium of the DACHAU extermination camp Photograph taken on 03 05 1945 Credit Collection KHARBINE TAPABOR KH21530
World War 1939 1945 HITLER and his staff, BRAUTSCHICH and KEITEL at the Grand Headquarters during the operations in the Balkans on 22 06 1941 Credit Collection KHARBINE TAPABOR KH18981
World War 1939 1945 1945 German propaganda poster from 1941 Portarit de BRAUCHITSCH WALTER VON 1881 1948 Credit Collection IM KHARBINE TAPABOR KH18955
Warsaw Second World War Grzybowska Street in the Warsaw Ghetto destroyed by the Nazis in September 1939 Private collection Credit NBL KHARBINE TAPABOR KH151140
2nd GM End of the 2nd World War, discovery of the concentration camps members of the United States Congress visiting the gas chambers of Dachau Credit Coll Kharbine Tapabor KH21535
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Mussolini and Hitler at the Wehrmacht Oberkommando Mussolini and Hitler at the Wehrmacht Oberkommando Summer 1941 Germany - Second World War Copyright: xPhoto12 ArchivesxSnarkx DFS09A10_432
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Hiroshima devastated by the atomic bomb launched on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima devastated by the atomic bomb launched on August 6, 1945 The area devasted by the bomb is indicated by the black surface inside the circle. 20th century Japan - World War II U.S. Air Force Copyright: xPhoto12 ArchivesxSnarkx DFS09A08_334
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Dachau Concentration Camp Dachau Concentration Camp 20th World War II Washington. National Archives Copyright: xPhoto12 ArchivesxSnarkx DFS09A02251
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Enlisted Man of Seventh US Army Giving Cigarettes to Liberated Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, Central Europe Campaign, Western Allied Invasion of Germany, April 29,1945 Copyright: xJTxVintagex jtv011171
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Capturing SS Guards in Coal Yard at Concentration Camp by 42nd Infantry Division, U.S. Seventh Army, Dachau, Germany, Central Europe Campaign, Western Allied Invasion of Germany, April 1945 Copyright: xJTxVintagex jtv011170
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 The Enola Gay aircraft dropped an atomic bomb. The bomb at Hiroshima, Japan 1945 The Enola Gay, Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The bomb, was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP18A29149
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Image shows Berlin devastated at the end of the Second World War. Image shows Berlin devistated at the end of the Second World War. The German city suffered relentless airstrikes from the allied forces in 1945. Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP18A18224
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 SS guards load victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, into a trucks for burial, 1945 SS guards load victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, into a trucks for burial, 1945 Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP17A13080
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Photograph of Russian soldiers and a civilian struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle Photograph of Russian soldiers and a civilian struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle that once loomed over a doorway of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin. Dated 1945 Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP17A12435
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Photograph of Adolf Eichmann on trial Photograph of Adolf Eichmann on trial. Otto Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) German Nazi SS-ObersturmbannfÃ¼hrer and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Dated 1961 Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP17A12307
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 World War II: View of the city of Hiroshima, Japan, after the explosion of the atomic bomb, 6 August 1945. US Army photograph. Warfare Nuclear Ruins Destruction NA Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP10A02433
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Reinhard Heydrich, Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, September 27, 1941. Heydrich was appointed Deputy Reich Protector on September 27, 1941. (CTKxPhoto) CTKPhotoF201104210396001
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 BODY OF GESTAPO CHIEF HEINRICH MUELLER H EXHUMED IN WEST BERLIN ; 30 SEPTEMBER 1963, Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchivesIPU464115
KZ Bergen Belsen Surviving typhoid at the infirmary in the camp which was taken over by the Allied 21 Army Group In the camp 55 000 prisoners were found with typhus and dysentery 13 000 former inmates died after the liberation Germany Date 15 April 1945
KZ Bergen Belsen Two female survivors in the camp that was taken over by the Allied 21st Army Group In the camp, 55 000 prisoners were found many with typhoid and dysentery 13 000 former prisoners died after the liberation Germany Date 15 April 1945
KZ Bergen Belsen survivors in the camp which was taken over by the Allied 21 Army Group In the camp 55 000 prisoners were found many with typhus and dysentery 13 000 former prisoners died after the liberation Germany date 15 April 1945
KZ Bergen Belsen The treatment of a survivor after the camp was taken over by the Allied 21st Army Group In the camp 55 000 prisoners were found many with typhus and dysentery 13 000 former prisoners died after the liberation Germany date 15 April 1945
The overseers at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp were captured by the British 60,000 civilian prisoners many with typhus and dysentery were found in the camp Thousands were dead Bergen Belsen Germany Date 17 April 1945
KZ Bergen Belsen Two children are barely alive after the arrival of the Allied 21st Army Group In the camp 55,000 prisoners were found with typhoid and dysentery 13,000 former prisoners died after the liberation Germany Date 15 April 1945
Bergen Belsen concentration camp After handing over to the Allied 21st Army Group, corpses of dead inmates are found everywhere in the camp 55,000 inmates were found with typhus and dysentery 13,000 former inmates died after the liberation of Germany Date 15 April 1945
Bergen Belsen concentration camp Inmates drag the body of a sick person to the Allied 21st Army Group after handing over the camp 55,000 inmates were found with typhoid and dysentery 13,000 former inmates died after the liberation of Germany Date 15 April 1945
KZ Bergen Belsen Liberated women who get the clothes of the dead after the camp was handed over to the Allied 21st Army Group 55 000 prisoners were found in the camp Many with typhoid and dysentery More than 10 000 former prisoners died after the liberation Germany Date 15 April 1945
Officers of the 2 British Army and 2 Wehrmacht officers negotiate the agreement on the transfer of the neutral territory of the Bergen Belsen camp to the British army. The 11th Panzer Division then occupied the concentration camp on 15 April 1945 Bergen Belsen Germany Date 12 April 1945
Arrival of the Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz Birkenau Between May 2 and July 9, 1944, Hungarian gendarmes, led by German SS officials, deported more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews from Hungary, most of them to Auschwitz Poland on June 1944
The furnace room A freight elevator brought the bodies from the gasification chamber of crematorium III in Birkenau concentration camp Auschwitz Poland date January 1945
Arrival of the Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz Birkenau Between 2 May and 9 July 1944, Hungarian gendarmes, led by German SS people, deported more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews from Hungary, most of them to Auschwitz Poland Date June 1944
Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler on the right and Max Faust Chief Engineer on the far right in Himmlers visit to the Monowitz Buna Works in Auschwitz Poland Date 17 July 1942
Heinrich Himmler middle right and Max Faust chief engineer middle left at Himmlers visit to the Monowitz Buna works in Auschwitz Poland Date 17 July 1942
Visit to Heinrich Himmlers visit to the Monowitz Buna facility From left to right Rudolph Brandt Heinrich Himmler Center Max Faust Chief Engineer Right Rudolf Höß Camp Commandant Auschwitz Poland Date 17 July 1942
Auschwitz Concentration Camp A barbed wire fence with a danger warning sign Danger high voltage mortal danger The camp was liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union from the 1 Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal Ivanovich Konev Poland Date 27 January 1945
Concentration camp Dachau prisoners stand in line and an SS guard is in the tower Bildgeschichte im Illustrierte Observer Illustrated Observer The first such report in a German magazine Photos Friedrich Franz Bauer 1903 1972 Germany Date 3 December 1936
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Hiroshima - only the canals break up the blanket of mass destruction over Hiroshima after the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city on 6 August 1945 2 September 1945, Hiroshima Japan Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1380701
IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Streets and streets of rubble and debris, dominated by the ruined industrial exhibition hall - a scene from Hirsoshima before and after , razed by the world s first atomic bomb detonated on 6 August 1945, Hiroshima Japan Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1380698

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IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 The German-soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939 The bombing of Warsaw: view from a German Junkers Ju 52 bomber of smoke rising over the outskirts of the city. Copyright: xpiemagsx piemagsminpressage26042022-522 !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!

Polen, Ein älterer Jude, der von der deutschen Armee mit der Beseitigung der Trümmer beauftragt wird, 09 1939 ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT

World War II The Warsaw Ghetto at the time of the Liberation in 1945 Credit Collection KHARBINE TAPABOR KH28747

Second World War Crematorium of the DACHAU extermination camp Photograph taken on 03 05 1945 Credit Collection KHARBINE TAPABOR KH21530

World War 1939 1945 HITLER and his staff, BRAUTSCHICH and KEITEL at the Grand Headquarters during the operations in the Balkans on 22 06 1941 Credit Collection KHARBINE TAPABOR KH18981

World War 1939 1945 1945 German propaganda poster from 1941 Portarit de BRAUCHITSCH WALTER VON 1881 1948 Credit Collection IM KHARBINE TAPABOR KH18955

Warsaw Second World War Grzybowska Street in the Warsaw Ghetto destroyed by the Nazis in September 1939 Private collection Credit NBL KHARBINE TAPABOR KH151140

2nd GM End of the 2nd World War, discovery of the concentration camps members of the United States Congress visiting the gas chambers of Dachau Credit Coll Kharbine Tapabor KH21535

IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Mussolini and Hitler at the Wehrmacht Oberkommando Mussolini and Hitler at the Wehrmacht Oberkommando Summer 1941 Germany - Second World War Copyright: xPhoto12 ArchivesxSnarkx DFS09A10_432

IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Dachau Concentration Camp Dachau Concentration Camp 20th World War II Washington. National Archives Copyright: xPhoto12 ArchivesxSnarkx DFS09A02251

IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Enlisted Man of Seventh US Army Giving Cigarettes to Liberated Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, Central Europe Campaign, Western Allied Invasion of Germany, April 29,1945 Copyright: xJTxVintagex jtv011171

IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Capturing SS Guards in Coal Yard at Concentration Camp by 42nd Infantry Division, U.S. Seventh Army, Dachau, Germany, Central Europe Campaign, Western Allied Invasion of Germany, April 1945 Copyright: xJTxVintagex jtv011170

IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 SS guards load victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, into a trucks for burial, 1945 SS guards load victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, into a trucks for burial, 1945 Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP17A13080

IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 World War II: View of the city of Hiroshima, Japan, after the explosion of the atomic bomb, 6 August 1945. US Army photograph. Warfare Nuclear Ruins Destruction NA Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP10A02433

IMAGO History, Zweiter Weltkrieg: 1939 - 1945 BODY OF GESTAPO CHIEF HEINRICH MUELLER H EXHUMED IN WEST BERLIN ; 30 SEPTEMBER 1963, Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchivesIPU464115

KZ Bergen Belsen Surviving typhoid at the infirmary in the camp which was taken over by the Allied 21 Army Group In the camp 55 000 prisoners were found with typhus and dysentery 13 000 former inmates died after the liberation Germany Date 15 April 1945

KZ Bergen Belsen Two female survivors in the camp that was taken over by the Allied 21st Army Group In the camp, 55 000 prisoners were found many with typhoid and dysentery 13 000 former prisoners died after the liberation Germany Date 15 April 1945

KZ Bergen Belsen survivors in the camp which was taken over by the Allied 21 Army Group In the camp 55 000 prisoners were found many with typhus and dysentery 13 000 former prisoners died after the liberation Germany date 15 April 1945

KZ Bergen Belsen The treatment of a survivor after the camp was taken over by the Allied 21st Army Group In the camp 55 000 prisoners were found many with typhus and dysentery 13 000 former prisoners died after the liberation Germany date 15 April 1945

The overseers at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp were captured by the British 60,000 civilian prisoners many with typhus and dysentery were found in the camp Thousands were dead Bergen Belsen Germany Date 17 April 1945

KZ Bergen Belsen Two children are barely alive after the arrival of the Allied 21st Army Group In the camp 55,000 prisoners were found with typhoid and dysentery 13,000 former prisoners died after the liberation Germany Date 15 April 1945

Bergen Belsen concentration camp After handing over to the Allied 21st Army Group, corpses of dead inmates are found everywhere in the camp 55,000 inmates were found with typhus and dysentery 13,000 former inmates died after the liberation of Germany Date 15 April 1945

Bergen Belsen concentration camp Inmates drag the body of a sick person to the Allied 21st Army Group after handing over the camp 55,000 inmates were found with typhoid and dysentery 13,000 former inmates died after the liberation of Germany Date 15 April 1945

KZ Bergen Belsen Liberated women who get the clothes of the dead after the camp was handed over to the Allied 21st Army Group 55 000 prisoners were found in the camp Many with typhoid and dysentery More than 10 000 former prisoners died after the liberation Germany Date 15 April 1945

Officers of the 2 British Army and 2 Wehrmacht officers negotiate the agreement on the transfer of the neutral territory of the Bergen Belsen camp to the British army. The 11th Panzer Division then occupied the concentration camp on 15 April 1945 Bergen Belsen Germany Date 12 April 1945

Arrival of the Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz Birkenau Between May 2 and July 9, 1944, Hungarian gendarmes, led by German SS officials, deported more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews from Hungary, most of them to Auschwitz Poland on June 1944

The furnace room A freight elevator brought the bodies from the gasification chamber of crematorium III in Birkenau concentration camp Auschwitz Poland date January 1945

Arrival of the Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz Birkenau Between 2 May and 9 July 1944, Hungarian gendarmes, led by German SS people, deported more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews from Hungary, most of them to Auschwitz Poland Date June 1944

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler on the right and Max Faust Chief Engineer on the far right in Himmlers visit to the Monowitz Buna Works in Auschwitz Poland Date 17 July 1942

Heinrich Himmler middle right and Max Faust chief engineer middle left at Himmlers visit to the Monowitz Buna works in Auschwitz Poland Date 17 July 1942

Visit to Heinrich Himmlers visit to the Monowitz Buna facility From left to right Rudolph Brandt Heinrich Himmler Center Max Faust Chief Engineer Right Rudolf Höß Camp Commandant Auschwitz Poland Date 17 July 1942

Auschwitz Concentration Camp A barbed wire fence with a danger warning sign Danger high voltage mortal danger The camp was liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union from the 1 Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal Ivanovich Konev Poland Date 27 January 1945

Concentration camp Dachau prisoners stand in line and an SS guard is in the tower Bildgeschichte im Illustrierte Observer Illustrated Observer The first such report in a German magazine Photos Friedrich Franz Bauer 1903 1972 Germany Date 3 December 1936