Introduction
Buchenwald concentration camp (Germany, 16 April 1945)
ImageThree prisoners of Russian, Polish and Dutch origin, ‘survivors’ of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp in April 1945.
Destruction in the Netherlands (Rotterdam, 14 May 1940)
ImageIn May 1940, air raids and bombing sorties carried out by the Luftwaffe destroy a large part of Rotterdam’s Old Town.
Cartoon by Szewczuk on the shortage of supplies in Germany (1946)
Image‘The calorie mirage.’ In 1946, the cartoonist, Mirko Szewczuk, illustrates the difficult situation with regard to food in post-war Germany.
Germany at the end of the Second World War: the destruction in Dresden (1946)
ImageView of the destruction caused in the City of Dresden following the Allied bombings at the end of the Second World War.