Second World War in Pictures

'D-Day Rescue, Omaha Beach’, Walter Rosenblum, 1944

'D-Day Rescue, Omaha Beach', Walter Rosenblum, 1944

Blitz

A nation of looters: it even happened in the Blitz

News Thu 11 Aug 2011, AT 12:31

Calls for the ‘Blitz Spirit’ following the riots are misguided: looting was rife in London's darkest hour

Rudolph Hess

Rudolph Hess exhumed to stop Nazi pilgrimage

News Thu 21 Jul 2011, AT 16:01

Grave of Hitler’s deputy had become a shrine for neo-Nazis, even though he tried to stop World War 2

Picture Past: August 25, 1944, Paris liberated

Picture Past: August 23, 1942, Nazis in Stalingrad

Picture Past: August 15, 1945, VJ Day

Picture Past: August 6, 1945, Hiroshima

Picture Past: July 10, 1940, Battle of Britain

Picture Past: June 22, 1945, Okinawa

Picture Past: June 14, 1940, Nazis in Paris

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