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A group of German soldiers are taken as POWs by the U.S. Army’s 36th Infantry Division (”Arrowhead”) in German-occupied Alsace in France. Alsace-Lorraine was occupied by Germany in 1940, following the defeat of France. Although Germany never formally annexed Alsace-Lorraine, it was incorporated into the Greater German Reich, which had been restructured into a Reichsgau (an administrative subdivision). Alsace was merged with Baden, and Lorraine with the Saarland, to become part of a planned Westmark (Germany’s future western border). Rohrwiller, Alsace (now, part of Grand Est), France. 2 April 1945.

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Hungarian Jewish men and boys from Carpathian Ruthenia (now, largely in Ukraine) arrive by cattle car to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp and await selection. Those deemed unable to work due to age, infirmity, or due to labor quotas already filled were sent directly to the gas chamber to be killed. Those selected by SS doctors as fit for labor were sent into the camp, where they were registered, deloused and distributed to the barracks. Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz (Polish: Oświęcim), Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. 27 April 1944. Image taken by either SS photographers E. Hoffmann or B. Walter.

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Polish Resistance fighters of the “Narocz” Platoon, “Parasol” Battalion of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) guard a barricade on Sienna Street during the Warsaw Uprising. The Uprising was timed to coincide with Soviet forces approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces. However, the Soviet advance stopped short, enabling the Germans to regroup and demolish the city while defeating the Polish resistance, which fought for 63 days with little outside support. Between 150,000 and 200,000 Warsaw inhabitants were killed during the uprising and a further 350,000 to 550,000 sent through a transit camp in Pruszków following the end of the insurgency. Of these, 90,000 were sent to labor camps, 60,000 were shipped to death and concentration camps and the remainder were released throughout Poland. Warsaw was then razed to the ground. Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. 5 August 1944. Image taken by Czesław Gerwel.

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Alfred Berger als Angehöriger des Wachbataillons in Berlin, 1940

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Photograph of a victim’s eyeball after bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb cataract, 1945

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The Capela dos Ossos (The Bone Chapel) is an ossuary located in Faro, Portugal. The chapel is built entirely from the human bones of more than 1000 monks. As well as the walls being covered in human skeletons and skulls, there is a single complete skeleton covered in gold which hangs from the front of the chapel. An inscription above the entrance translates to:

“Stop here and consider, that you will reach this state too.”