In the Rubble January 11, 2012
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In the RubbleJanuary 11, 2012
Rotterdam, Netherlands: bombed flat by the Luftwaffe, 1940
London during the blitz, 1940
Sevastopol, USSR – 1942
Scorched-earth retreat: Germans destroy Soviet rails
Scorched-earth retreat: slaughtered cattle
Warsaw, 1944:The German army crushes a Polish
uprising
Caen, France: July 1944
Americans roll up northern Italy, spring 1945
Budapest, 1945:The Red Army
arrives
Cologne 1945
Hamburg 1945
Nuremberg1945
Dresden 1945
Berlin trams, winter 1944/45
Concentration camp inmates clear a dud
Soviet positions, Frankfurter Allee, April 1945
The Red Army fights house-to-house, late April 1945
Berlin-Friedrichstrasse, July 1945
Liberation in France:
“l’épuration”
Collaborators on trial(here: publicist Robert Brasillach)
Flight & expulsion of Germans from the East
Organized expulsions from Czechoslovakia
Flight and expulsion of ethnic Germans,
counted by region of
origin
Forced laborers serve the
Third Reich
Jewish DPs in Germany & Austria, mid-1947:ca. 250,000 still await resettling
Jewish DPs at study& at play
Jewish DPs re-dedicate a cemetery in Lübeck, 1948
UNRRA: The UN Relief and Rehabilitation Agency- Here: a “sister of charity,” Belgium, 1946
Military & civilian deaths in WW II (w/o Holocaust)France 212,000 267,000Germany/Austr. 5,500,000 1,840,000Hungary 300,000 80,000Italy 306,400 145,100Poland 400,000 2,200,000Romania 316,000 56,000Soviet Union 10,700,000 11,500,000U.K. 382,600 67,800United States 407,300 11,200Yugoslavia 446,000 514,000
Est. Holocaust deaths by select countriesCzechoslovakia 277,000France 83,000Germany/Austria 225,000Hungary 200,000Lithuania 140,000Netherlands 106,000Poland 3,000,000Romania 469,000Soviet Union
1,000,000Yugoslavia 67,000