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World War II Aftermath: Tragedy and Triumph

Explore the aftermath of World War II through impactful events and figures from various countries, detailing liberation, expulsions, forced labor, and the plight of Jewish DPs. Witness the resilience and challenges faced post-war.

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World War II Aftermath: Tragedy and Triumph

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  1. In the RubbleJanuary 11, 2012

  2. Rotterdam, Netherlands: bombed flat by the Luftwaffe, 1940

  3. London during the blitz, 1940

  4. Sevastopol, USSR – 1942

  5. Scorched-earth retreat: Germans destroy Soviet rails

  6. Scorched-earth retreat: slaughtered cattle

  7. Warsaw, 1944:The German army crushes a Polish uprising

  8. Caen, France: July 1944

  9. Americans roll up northern Italy, spring 1945

  10. Budapest, 1945:The Red Army arrives

  11. Cologne 1945

  12. Hamburg 1945

  13. Nuremberg1945

  14. Dresden 1945

  15. Berlin trams, winter 1944/45

  16. Concentration camp inmates clear a dud

  17. Soviet positions, Frankfurter Allee, April 1945

  18. The Red Army fights house-to-house, late April 1945

  19. Berlin-Friedrichstrasse, July 1945

  20. Liberation in France: “l’épuration”

  21. Collaborators on trial(here: publicist Robert Brasillach)

  22. Flight & expulsion of Germans from the East

  23. Organized expulsions from Czechoslovakia

  24. Flight and expulsion of ethnic Germans, counted by region of origin

  25. Forced laborers serve the Third Reich

  26. Jewish DPs in Germany & Austria, mid-1947:ca. 250,000 still await resettling

  27. Jewish DPs at study& at play

  28. Jewish DPs re-dedicate a cemetery in Lübeck, 1948

  29. UNRRA: The UN Relief and Rehabilitation Agency- Here: a “sister of charity,” Belgium, 1946

  30. Military & civilian deaths in WW II (w/o Holocaust)

  31. Est. Holocaust deaths by select countries Czechoslovakia 277,000 France 83,000 Germany/Austria 225,000 Hungary 200,000 Lithuania 140,000 Netherlands 106,000 Poland 3,000,000 Romania 469,000 Soviet Union 1,000,000 Yugoslavia 67,000

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