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This historic photograph was taken in Nagasaki, in September 1945, shortly after the atomic bombing of this city on August 9, 1945. A 10-year-old boy stands military stretched and waits his turn at the funeral bonfire to cremate his little brother who died in the bombing. A soldier from the funeral team noticed the boy was tired of standing with the burden and offered to lay the dead child on the ground. He replied, "It's not heavy. This isn't hard for me. This is my brother.'' The author of the shot Joe O’Donnell wrote in his memoir, “I saw a boy walking for about ten years. He carried a child on his back. Those days in Japan, we often saw children playing with their younger siblings by sitting them on their backs, but this boy was clearly different. I thought he was here for some good reason. He had no shoes on. His face was all hard. The child's head was spinning from side to side as if he were sleeping. The boy just stood there for five or ten minutes. Peop

American soldier killed by German snipers in Leipzig, 1945 War photographer Robert Capa took this iconic photo of an American soldier shot and killed by a German sniper in the battle for Leipzig on 18 April 1945. The soldier became known as the ‘last man to die’ in WWII after the image appeared in Life magazine’s Victory issue. During the final days of the war, a platoon of machine gunners entered a Leipzig building looking for positions to set up covering fire points that would protect foot soldiers of the 2nd U.S. Infantry advancing across the bridge. Two members of the platoon found an open balcony that commanded on an unobstructed view of the bridge, set up their gun. For a while, one soldier fired the gun while the other fed it. Read story https://worldhistoricalevent.blogspot.com/2023/02/american-soldier-killed-by-german.html?m=1 Then one soldier went inside and the other manned the smoking gun alone. While absorbed in reloading it, a German sniper’s bullet from the street pierce

On January 27, 1945, Soviet scouts in southern Poland stumbled upon what appeared to be an abandoned Nazi camp near the town of Oświęcim   They had no idea that the camp even existed and were stunned to see thousands of emaciated and brutalized prisoners, some barely clinging to life, staring at them through the barbed-wire fence. As one Soviet soldier later recalled, "I remember their faces, especially their eyes which betrayed their ordeal." This was Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest of all the Nazis' concentration camps.⁠ ⁠ When the soldiers entered the camp, there were no guards anywhere to be found. The Nazis had recently abandoned the facility, taking 60,000 prisoners with them and trying to destroy the evidence of the horrors they'd perpetrated there. However, there was far too much evidence to ever conceal and Soviet troops soon uncovered warehouses filled with enormous piles of the shoes, glasses, and other personal belongings of the 1.1 million victims w

A Germany Regiment marching down from their mountain positions surrender to the Americans, Austria, 1945 After Germany's surrender in May 1945, millions of German soldiers remained prisoners of war. In France, their internment lasted a particularly long time. But, for some former soldiers, it was a path to rehabilitation. After Germany's surrender in May 1945, millions of German soldiers remained prisoners of war. In France, their internment lasted a particularly long time. But, for some former soldiers, it was a path to rehabilitation. French units lost out to US soldiers in the last meters of the race to reach Adolf Hitler's destroyed Alpine headquarters, the Berghof. But French troops in southern Germany in early May 1945 nonetheless made good progress, capturing one town after the other. After four years of Nazi occupation, France, under General Charles de Gaulle, joined the ultimately victorious Allied powers in 1944. And the country made sure the defeated German natio

Smart, beautiful and deadly, 19-year-old Soviet sniper Roza Shanina had 59 confirmed kills, 1945 19-year old Roza Shanina racked up 59 Nazi kills in just 10 months on the Eastern Front — and her diary captured every moment.  “Finally, in the evening a German showed in the trench. I estimated the distance to the target was not over 400 meters. A suitable distance. When the Fritz, keeping his head down, went toward the woods, I fired, but from the way he fell, I knew I had not killed him. For about an hour the fascist lay in the mud, not daring to move. Then he started crawling. I fired again, and this time did not miss.” Realizing what she did, her legs crumbled beneath her and she slid into a trench. When she said in shock, “I’ve killed a man,” a female comrade called back, “That was a fascist you finished off.” See the photos, view her death list, and go inside the unbelievable but true story of Rosa Shanina, the “Unseen Terror Of East Prussia” by clicking the link in our bio. Roza Sh