Poland and World War II (1939-1945)

Faces of Warsaw residents who lost their homes as a result of German air raids in September 1939. A column of Polish prisoners of war moves along a city street.

A column of captured Polish officers who led the defense of Warsaw is escorted by German soldiers.

Wehrmacht units march through the streets of Warsaw.

Walls of dilapidated buildings with empty windows.

A panorama of one of the destroyed buildings.

German infantry and tanks move along the roads of Poland.

Soldiers on the armor of German tanks.

A road sign for Doulan, pierced by bullets.

Wehrmacht armored vehicles and infantry enter the cities of France in 1940. German troops on the march.

German infantry passes destroyed buildings.

Columns of German troops move through the USSR in June 1941. German infantry units on the march in 1941-1942. German soldiers riding in a convoy.

The movement of German horse-drawn supply trains and artillery across the USSR. Wehrmacht units during winter combat.

A blizzard is sweeping.

A destroyed German artillery firing position near Moscow.

The corpses of German soldiers in the snow (panorama).

German graves near the fence of a destroyed church, the corpse of a German soldier covered in snow.

Soviet rocket artillery fires at the enemy at night.

Soviet tanks enter the suburbs of Berlin in April 1945. Street fighting in Berlin, infantry and tanks advance through ruins.

Tanks and artillery fire on the streets of Berlin.

A mortar crew of the 1st Army of the Polish Army fires at the enemy.

Polish infantry, together with the Red Army, fights street battles in Berlin.

Soviet infantry and artillery during street fighting, infantry advances through ruins.

Artillery of all calibers fires direct fire on the streets of Berlin.

Infantry attack through the rubble of buildings.

German soldiers surrendering.

Battle of the Reichstag.

View of the burning Reichstag building, the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.

Tanks of the Polish Army drive through the streets of Berlin.

The Polish national flag over the Tiergarten.

White flags of surrender in the windows of Berlin buildings.

Polish and Soviet officers ascend the Victory Column.

A statue of a goddess atop the Victory Column.

Captured German police awaiting a body search.

Columns of German prisoners of war march under escort through the streets of Berlin, faces of the prisoners.

One of the columns of German prisoners passes by soldiers of the Polish Army.