World War II (1939-1945)

Newsboys riding bicycles through the streets of Paris.

Distribution of copies of the Paris-Soir newspaper in the street.

An announcement of mobilization on the wall of a building in Paris.

People reading the announcement of mobilization.

A drummer in the street beats the assembly signal.

Faces of those mobilized into the French army.

Farewell to the mobilized.

Mobilized men getting out of a taxi.

A sign with the inscription "Strassbourg" on the wall of a carriage.

A train with mobilized men setting off.

Women waving their hands goodbye.

Farewell to the ships of the French fleet on a campaign.

The crew on the deck of a warship.

View of a unit of a warship going on a campaign, the main caliber guns on the deck.

A woman waving a handkerchief from the pier.

Putting a baby into a special anti-chemical suit with a gas mask.

The smiling face of a baby.

A mother in a gas mask with a child in an anti-chemical suit in her arms.

Women in gas masks with children in special protective equipment in their arms.

A German officer observes through binoculars on a tripod.

A French soldier places granules in a pouch, the soldier's face.

French scouts during a search.

Scouts crawl under a barbed wire fence during combat operations in winter, the face of a soldier sitting in secret.

Arrival of Hitler's plane on the Eastern Front in 1939. Soldiers run across the airfield to greet Hitler.

Hitler receives a report after exiting the plane.

Hitler gets into a car.

Hitler at headquarters over a map during a conference with the military, listening to the explanations of one of the generals.

Soldiers and officers greet Hitler as he leaves headquarters.

Soldiers surround Hitler's car.

Soldiers greet Hitler as he passes by in his car by raising their right hands.

Parade of volunteers in Germany leaving for the active army.

Farewell to the volunteers at the train station.

Honor guard on the platform.

Croatian Ustasha volunteers march in formation along a street in Zagreb.

A unit of Croatian pilots marches along the street.

Residents of Zagreb greet the volunteers as they pass.

The Minister of the Armed Forces of Croatia, General S. Kvaternik, walks along the line of volunteers during the farewell ceremony at the train station.

Residents of Zagreb pin flowers to the jackets of volunteers.

Farewell to a train with Croatian volunteers.

Italian soldiers leaving for the Eastern Front stand in formation.

An officer gives a report.

Farewell to Italian soldiers leaving for the Eastern Front at the train station.

Map of the Murmansk Region and Finland.

A column of Finnish troops with a supply train moves toward the Soviet border.

Finnish infantry during a march.

Finnish officers observe the Soviet side from the bushes.

Finnish artillery crews open fire.

Finnish artillery fires at Soviet territory.

Map of the western part of the USSR. Romanian troops during the invasion of the USSR. A meeting of German and Romanian soldiers.

A unit of Romanian troops crosses a river on a wooden bridge built by sappers.

Romanian King Michael among the military.

General Antonescu at the front line.

Antonescu and the military accompanying him during an inspection of the positions of the Romanian troops.

German troops advance to the Dniester to force it.

Soldiers transport military equipment across the Dniester in a motorboat.

German troops conduct combat operations against the Red Army on the Southern Front in Bessarabia.

A German artillery field gun fires at a Moldovan village.

German troops during the offensive in Bessarabia.

German soldiers clear out one of the villages.

A local resident is searched.

A column of Soviet prisoners of war marches under escort by German soldiers.

Red Army soldiers who were captured carry their wounded comrades.

Panorama of the destroyed neighborhoods of Balta in August 1941 (top).

Corpses of killed civilians of Balta.

Map of the Ukrainian SSR. Residents of the occupied Vinnytsia region repair a road for the passage of German troops.

German military vehicles drive over hastily filled potholes and craters.

An army bus slides in the road mud.

German soldiers push a bus out of the mud by hand.

Hungarian army units moving through Ukraine.

Hungarian horse army convoy overcomes the mud on the road.

Air battle.

Trucks of a wrecked Soviet convoy burn on the side of the road.

German anti-aircraft gun crews fire at Soviet aircraft.

German fighter jet taking off.

Firing at a Soviet bomber during an air battle.

Burning Soviet aircraft crashing behind a forest.

Air battle scenes, burning aircraft crashing.

Wreckage of a burning aircraft on the ground.

Airplane hit.

Firing at a Soviet aircraft during an air battle in the summer of 1941, hitting the aircraft.

The burning aircraft falls.

Panorama of a forest edge, smoke from burning destroyed military equipment.

German soldiers near a captured jeep during the Holland operation in September 1944. German self-propelled guns fire.

German signalmen transmit data and target designations.

A column of destroyed and burning American equipment on the road.

German soldiers pass by destroyed American armored vehicles.

German soldiers inspect a destroyed and burning American motorcade.

American prisoners of war walk under escort.

Faces of black American soldiers captured by the Germans.

Escorting American prisoners of war to the rear.

British mortar crews fire at the enemy.

Mine explosions on German positions.

Faces of German soldiers surrendering.

View of a destroyed house in one of the towns in the Ardennes.

Corpses of executed civilians.

Faces of German soldiers smoking cigarettes.

German soldiers in an inflatable boat moor at the river bank in the summer of 1940 during the invasion of France.

Road sign showing directions to Paris and Soissons.

German horse-drawn convoy moves along the road.

A column of French prisoners of war moves along the road to the German rear.

Black French soldiers captured by the Germans carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher.

German troops move along a road in France.

German horse-drawn convoy crosses a bridge.

Raising the swastika flag over the Elysee Palace in Paris on July 22, 1941. Panorama of one of the Parisian squares.

German light aircraft landed on the square.

View of part of Paris and the Eiffel Tower.

German anti-tank gun on one of the streets of Paris.

German soldiers climb the spiral staircase to the Eiffel Tower.

German infantry marches along one of the streets of Paris.

View of the Champs-Elysees.

The Arc de Triomphe on the Place de l'Etoile.

Parade of British Guards and French troops on the Champs-Elysees before World War II. German infantry marching along the Champs-Elysees, faces of generals reviewing the parade.

View of part of the Parisian quarter near the Arc de Triomphe (top).

Units of German horse-drawn artillery on the streets of Paris, residents of Paris near the Arc de Triomphe.

View of the Champs-Elysees during the Wehrmacht parade in July 1940 (top).

German sentries at the entrance to the territory of Les Invalides, panorama of the dome of Les Invalides.

French policemen showing a German officer the route on a map.

German troops on the streets of Paris, faces of Parisian women.

A German artillery gun at a camouflaged firing position near Leningrad in 1942. German soldiers equip positions and build wood and earth firing points.

A soldier, stripped to the waist, wipes himself with snow.

Clearing trenches of ice and snow.

A soldier throws melted snow and water from the bottom of a trench onto the parapet.

Scooping out melted water with a helmet.

German officers observe the forward edge of Soviet troops.

The officers disperse to their units after clarifying joint actions.

Observation of the enemy's forward edge and setting a combat mission.

A soldier leaves a dugout along a tram car.

German tanks at the forward edge.

Machine gun crews conduct harassing fire.

The face of a German mortarman.

Mortar crews conduct fire and trenches.

German artillery fires at Red Army positions, officers observe the results of the shooting from a trench.

Firing from a heavy gun.

View of the firing position.

The work of the crew during the shooting.

An American military medic examines the corpses of soldiers, removes their personal tags.

The corpses of American soldiers covered in snow.

Carrying frozen corpses on stretchers and loading them into a truck trailer.

Panorama of the position of American armored vehicles during the Battle of the Ardennes (top).

Panorama and views of the area with troops moving along the roads (top).

American soldiers open the tailgate of a covered truck.

Unloading frozen corpses from the back of the truck.

The corpses are carried into the building on stretchers.

Cutting the mold on the corpses to extract personal tags.

An American military doctor signs a manifest.

A convoy of American troops stands on the road.

Soldiers near trucks and armored cars.

The crew of an anti-aircraft gun looks at the troops passing along the road, the movement of trucks with infantry.

A German machine gunner firing.

A German mortar crew firing.

A Wehrmacht infantry unit descends into a ravine and masses below to attack the enemy.

A German soldier crawls across a path.

A machine gun crew provides fire support for the infantry's offensive.

A German non-commissioned officer with binoculars.

German infantrymen ford a stream.

Troops of the German Expeditionary Force in Africa.

German planes fly over the city, German mechanized columns move along the city streets.

German officers and officers of Vichy France receive a parade.

A column of German reconnaissance armored cars moves along a city street.

Fire in the superstructure of a German warship.

Signal flags on the halyard.

German planes fly over an airfield and head to bomb cities in England.

German bombers in flight, the pilot's face at the controls.

British anti-aircraft shells exploding in the night sky over Liverpool, a German pilot at the controls.

The faces of the crew of one of the bombers.

Fires in Liverpool at night (top).

Views of Fort Capuzzo on the border of Libya and Egypt, taken by German troops on June 14, 1940. Destruction in the fort (panorama).

British soldiers captured by the Germans, a British armoured car captured by the Germans.

A sentry guards British prisoners.

The Italian flag flutters, Italian tanks at the flagpole.

General Gariboldi walks along the line of officers and salutes them.

German tanks during the parade.

General Gariboldi presents an award to General Rommel.

German pilots, sitting by a tent, discuss the flight mission on a map.

Pilots climb into the plane.

The face of a pilot putting on his helmet.

German aircraft during takeoff run, pilot at the controls.

View of the terrain (top).

Crew in the cockpit, German bombers in flight.

Firing at British tanks (top).

German bombers in flight, crew in the cockpit.

Firing at and destroying British tanks (top).

The American fleet at sea during the fighting in the Pacific Ocean in 1942-1944. Marines board a landing craft.

Boats with American landing forces go to the shore, a unit of Marines in a boat.

Landing of troops on the beach.

Infantry advance under the cover of a tank.

American mortar crews fire on Japanese positions.

Destroyed Japanese planes at an airfield captured by the Americans.

Marines inspect a captured Japanese position.

Corpses of Japanese soldiers.

American Marines move through the jungle.

Military transport and tracked tractors overcome washed-out and flooded roads.

Landing of American troops on the beach.

Army trucks with infantry drive ashore from the holds of landing ships.

American soldiers during the fighting.

German soldiers in position during fighting on the Western Front in the summer of 1944. Shells exploding on city streets.

Air battle over the coast of France.

German anti-aircraft gunners firing at aerial targets.

German soldiers on a city street with a machine gun adapted to fire at aerial targets.

Firing at aerial targets from German anti-aircraft guns, crash of a damaged aircraft, air battle over the coast.

Artillery gun on a city street, shells and bombs exploding.

German soldiers on the defensive.

Air battles.

Crash of a damaged aircraft.

Faces of German anti-aircraft gunners.

Burning wreckage of a British aircraft.

German troops fighting in the street.

Surrender of British soldiers.

Panorama of the coastal area and part of the shore (top).

View of the beach after the battle (top).

Destroyed buildings.

Corpses of Allied soldiers in the water near the shore after an unsuccessful landing.

Wrecked transport ships.

American and British soldiers captured by the Germans are escorted.

SS propaganda poster.

Captured British and American soldiers are driven through the streets of Paris on July 17, 1944. Men and women beat passing prisoners of war, German soldiers try to restore order.

View of one of the columns of prisoners of war walking along the street of Paris.

Panorama of the American motorcade destroyed during the Holland Operation in September 1944. German officers walk by.

German signalmen transmit data and target designations.

A column of destroyed and burning American equipment on the road.

German soldiers walk past destroyed American armored vehicles.

A burning American tank.

German troops during the Holland Operation.

Soldiers treat each other to cigarettes.

The movement of columns of German troops on the roads of Holland.

Churchill among the British and American soldiers.

German infantrymen walk past a burning American motorcade during the Holland Operation.

Churchill talks with General Montgomery.

German map of the Eastern Front.

German soldiers cutting down a telegraph pole.

The movement of German and Romanian horse convoys to Stalingrad in November 1942. Delivery of military supplies in winter conditions.

The movement of German motorcades, snow drifts.

German soldiers in position fill machine gun belts.

An observer at a stereoscopic telescope.

Winter landscape.

An observation balloon before takeoff.

An observer-spotter in the basket before takeoff.

The ascent of the balloon basket with an observer inside.

View of German armored vehicles and a populated area (from above).

German infantry and armored vehicles on the outskirts of a populated area during street fighting.

Tanks and artillery guns firing on the streets of the city.

German bombers flying.

Parade of allied Wehrmacht units.

German map of the Eastern Front.

German cavalrymen in an occupied village.

German intelligence officers interrogate a local resident.

German punitive forces inspect an abandoned partisan camp.

Local traitor guides talk to German soldiers.

A punitive unit moves through the forest during a counter-partisan operation.

Signalmen at a radio station.

Burning village houses.

Captured partisans.

A German map of Ukraine.

A German convoy driver carries boxes of gifts in a cart.

Distribution of gift sets to soldiers.

German soldiers play checkers during a break.

Faces of residents of one of the Ukrainian villages.

Villagers dance to the accompaniment of an orchestra of local musicians.

A parade of German cavalry in the occupied territory of the Ukrainian SSR. German troops on the streets of the occupied city, faces of local residents.

Checking the documents of local residents.

Officers examine a map of Minsk.

German motorcyclists ride along the road in the summer of 1941. A motorcycle crossing a stream on planks.

A German artillery crew fires direct fire at the remains of collective farm buildings.

A panorama of a burning barn.

German soldiers walk through a village during the fighting in the summer of 1941. A wrecked tram car on the rails.

Local residents push a tram car along the rails.

German soldiers in a tram.

A convoy of the Cossack camp evacuating during the retreat of German troops in the summer of 1944. A Kalmyk collaborationist in a cap with a Russian imperial cockade and a child in his arms.

Children sit on a clay fence.

Cossack collaborationists drive a herd of horses together with the retreating German troops.

Theft of cattle from the advancing Red Army.

German signalmen destroy a telephone line and poles during the retreat.

Winding up and removing telephone wires.

Blowing up a telegraph pole.

Destruction of industrial facilities.

Soldiers pass a burning house.

Houses set on fire by the Germans and collaborators during the retreat.

Camouflaging a German self-propelled gun with branches.

Loading ammunition.

The gunner at the sight.

German infantry on the march in the summer of 1944. Driving a flock of sheep from a pen during the evacuation of the Cossack camp from Belarus.

People on a ferry.

A convoy of evacuees after disembarking from the ferry to the shore.

Unloading sheep from the ferry.

Blowing up railway tracks by retreating German occupiers.

Rails torn apart as a result of the explosion.

Mining rolling stock.

Placing explosives in the boiler of a locomotive.

Destruction of rolling stock by an explosion.

Destruction of a building by an explosion.

View of burning houses.

German soldiers equipping a position.