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A group of German soldiers captured by Polish resistance fighters in warsaw Poland, in August, 1944 The 1944 Warsaw uprising was the single largest military effort undertaken by resistance forces to oppose German occupation during World War II. Soldiers from the Kiliński Battalion of the Polish Home Army take a German prisoner during the period  In the end, German troops destroyed the majority of Warsaw during and immediately after the uprising. Among the demolished buildings was the Royal Castle. On August 1, 1944, the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK), a non-Communist underground resistance movement, initiated the Warsaw uprising to liberate the city from the German occupation and reclaim Polish independence. The impetus for the military action was the ongoing retreat of the German forces from Poland, followed by the appearance of the Soviet Red Army View This Term in the Glossary along the east bank of the Vistula River. By October 2, 1944, the Germans had suppressed the uprising

Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad, 1944 In the end, this turned out to be a mock execution intended to make him Talk  Also it was staged for intimidation of other resistance fighters. Read full story  https://worldhistoricalevent.blogspot.com/2023/02/georges-blind-member-of-french.html?m=1 He was forwarded to a concentration camp, where he was selected for termination on arrival, dying some time in late November 1944. This was a mock execution attempting to get the resistance fighter, Georges Blind, to talk. It didn’t work. Georges did not divulge any information. It’s interesting how they’ve placed him at the corner of the building rather than against the stereotypical flat wall. It must make ricochet injuries to the firing squad members much less likely. Of course, this was a mock execution, but most likely they used the same site for real executions. Georges Blind was eventually forwarded to a concentration camp, where he was selected

US Marine discovers a near-dead baby in a cave in the jungle of Saipan island, 1944 1944. A US Marine cradles the barely living body of a tiny infant, who was found facedown in a cave in the jungle of Saipan island, where native islanders had been hiding to escape the fighting between US and Japanese forces. Photo by W. Eugene Smith. In a photo that somehow comprises both tenderness and horror, an American Marine cradles a near-dead infant pulled from under a rock while troops cleared Japanese fighters and civilians from caves on Saipan in the summer of 1944. The child was the only person found alive among hundreds of corpses in one cave. The battle for the Pacific island of Saipan during World War II is one of those well-remembered battles between Japan and America, one made worse by the mass suicide of local Japanese civilians who jumped off cliffs, fearful of capture by the Americans. The Americans declared Saipan “secure” on July 9, 1944, after a battle that obliterated the 30,000-

A French women and her mother was forced to shave their hairs as punishment for she had a baby with a German, 18-Aug-1944 French women who befriended the Nazis, through coerced, forced, or voluntary relationships, were singled out for shameful retribution following the liberation of France. The woman photographed here, believed to have been a prostitute who serviced German occupiers, is having her head shaved by French civilians to publicly mark her. The French called it horizontal collaboration, which is pretty dark as is, making mutual love an act of treason or at the very least disowning women of their body. Some actually were in love, for others it was just a way to get by, since the French essentially carried the Wehrmacht in terms of food. It's also not entirely rational, considering that what these women essentially did was harming the war effort, by funneling rations away from the Germans, but yes, in many cases it was just a big spiel to distract from their own guild or in