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Swedish Navy corvette HSwMS Karlstad (K35), 5th ship of the Visby-class (2427×1053)

Five SS men are forced to walk past the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering. They’d changed into civilian clothes in a failed attempt to evade capture. According to the photographer, the five men were all shot after this photo was taken (Germany, May 6, 1945) .

Smoking banned in Italy (Chappatte, 2005)

n May of 1945, Private Terry Moore of the 7th Infantry Division takes cover with his BAR as incoming Japanese artillery explodes nearby in the fight to take Okinawa

Survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, poses 2 years after the bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, 1947