World War II and the Establishment of the State of Israel (1941-1948)

Soviet troops conduct offensive combat operations near Moscow in December 1941. A tank tears through German barbed wire.

A ski battalion attacks the enemy with tank support.

A tank landing on an armored vehicle during an offensive.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

A burning German tank.

The corpses of German soldiers covered in snow.

Nenets prisoners of war walk under escort in a blizzard.

A view of a part of a destroyed enemy motorcade.

Soviet fighters fly by.

A view of a populated area during an air raid (above).

The commander raises his soldiers to attack.

Soviet infantry goes on the attack.

Units of the Southwestern and Stalingrad Fronts meet near Kalach on November 23, 1942. Residents of the liberated city greet the Soviet troops.

A panorama of Soviet troops moving along a city street (above).

A column of German prisoners in the steppe near Stalingrad in January 1943. Captured German officers and generals.

Victory Day celebrations on May 9, 1945 on the streets of Moscow.

Meeting of victorious soldiers in Moscow.

Victory salute over Moscow at night.

The bodies of the executed Mussolini and his mistress, hung upside down at a gas station near Milan on April 28, 1945, Italian partisans welcome the execution of Mussolini.

Field Marshal Keitel signs the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Germany in Karlhorst on May 8, 1945. Nuclear explosion after the dropping of the American atomic bomb.

Destruction in Hiroshima after the atomic bombing of the United States in August 1945. One of the victims of the atomic bombing.

War criminals in the dock during the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946. Goering gives evidence.

Faces of Goering, Hess.

Ribbentrop and Keitel in the dock during the trial.

Jews sailing to Palestine on the open deck of a ship (above).

Faces of settlers.

Disembarking settlers from a ship.

The crew of one of the ships hides illegal settlers in the hold, covering the hatches with tarpaulins, an airplane flies over the ship.

Raising the flag of the newly proclaimed state of Israel in May 1948. Panorama of part of Jerusalem.

Destruction during the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948, ruins, piles of broken bricks.