The collapse of fascism in Europe (1945)

Representatives of the German armed forces go to negotiate the surrender of the Allies in northwest Germany in early May 1945. Field Marshal Montgomery signs the instrument of surrender and hands it to a German general for signature.

The face of the surrendered Goering.

The bodies of the executed Mussolini and his mistress, hung upside down on April 28, 1945. Faces of American soldiers.

Exhumation of a corpse from a grave.

The bodies of Nazi victims laid out on a site for identification and filming.

Panorama of a square in Milan, the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petachi hung upside down.

Bodies removed from the gallows.

Residents of Milan and partisans view the corpses.

Views of a rally in a square in Milan.

Exhumation of a body from a grave.

An emaciated prisoner of one of the concentration camps on a stretcher.

Bodies of prisoners from a concentration camp in a ditch.

An American commission examines the bodies of murdered prisoners.

Goebbels's charred body in the morgue.