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5. World War II: Before the War

6. Adolf Hitler, age 35, on his release from Landesberg Prison, on December 20, 1924. Hitler had been
convicted of treason for his role in an attempted coup in 1923 called the Beer Hall Putsch. This photograph
was taken shortly after he finished dictating "Mein Kampf" to deputy Rudolf Hess. Eight years later, Hitler
would be sworn in as Chancellor of Germany, in 1933. (Library of Congress)

7. A Japanese soldier stands guard over part of the captured Great Wall of China in 1937, during the Second
Sino-Japanese War. The Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been at war intermittently since
1931, but the conflict escalated in 1937. (LOC)

8. Japanese aircraft carry out a bombing run over targets in China in 1937.

9. Japanese soldiers involved in street fighting in Shanghai, China in 1937. The battle of Shanghai lasted from
August through November of 1937, eventually involving nearly one million troops. In the end, Shanghai fell to
the Japanese, after over 150,000 casualties combined.(LOC)

10. First pictures of the Japanese occupation of Peiping (Beijing) in China, on August 13, 1937. Under the banner of
the rising sun, Japanese troops are shown passing from the Chinese City of Peiping into the Tartar City through
Chen-men, the main gate leading onward to the palaces in the Forbidden City. Just a stone's throw away is the
American Embassy, where American residents of Peiping flocked when Sino-Japanese hostilities were at their
worst. (AP Photo)

11. Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek, right, head of the Nanking government at Canton, with General Lung Yun,
chairman of the Yunan provincial government in Nanking, on June 27, 1936. (AP Photo)

12. Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, center, hands on hips, with members of the fascist Party, in Rome,
Italy, Oct. 28, 1922, following their March on Rome. This march was an act of intimidation, where thousands
of fascist blackshirts occupied strategic positions throughout much of Italy. Following the march, King
Emanuelle III asked Mussolini to form a new government, clearing the way towards a dictatorship. (AP Photo)

13. German-made Stuka dive bombers, part of the Condor Legion, in flight above Spain on May 30, 1939, during
the Spanish Civil War. The black-and-white "X" on the tail and wings is Saint Andrew's Cross, the insignia of
Franco's Nationalist Air Force. The Condor Legion was composed of volunteers from the German Army and
Air Force. (AP Photo)

14. Aerial bombing of Barcelona in 1938 by Franco's Nationalist Air Force. The Spanish Civil War saw some of
the earliest extensive use of aerial bombardment of civilian targets, and the development of new terror
bombing techniques. (Italian Airforce)

15. Two American Nazis in
uniform stand in the
doorway of their New York
City office, on April 1,
1932, when the
headquarters opened.
"NSDAP" stands for
Nationalsozialistische
Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,
or, in English, National
Socialist German
Workers' Party, normally
shortened to just "Nazi
Party". (AP Photo)

16. England's biggest demonstration of its readiness to go through a gas attack was staged, March 16, 1938,
when 2,000 volunteers in Birmingham donned gas masks and went through an elaborate drill. These three
firemen were fully equipped, from rubber boots to masks, for the mock gas "invasion". (AP Photo)

17. Adolf Hitler of Germany and Benito Mussolini of Italy greet each other as they meet at the airfield in Venice,
Italy, on June 14, 1934. Mussolini and his fascists put on a show for Hitler, but on the details of their
subsequent conversations there was little news.(AP Photo)

18. Four Nazi troops sing in front of the Berlin branch of the Woolworth Co. store during the movement to boycott
Jewish presence in Germany, in March, 1933. The Hitlerites believe the founder of the Woolworth Co. was
Jewish. (AP Photo)

19. Adolf Hitler is shown being cheered as he rides through the streets of Munich, Germany, November 9, 1933,
during the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the National Socialist movement. (AP Photo)

20. Hitler youth honor an unknown soldier by forming a swastika symbol on Aug. 27, 1933 in Germany. (AP
Photo)

21. The German army demonstrated its might before more than a million residents during the nationwide harvest festival at
Bückeburg, near Hanover, Germany, on Oct. 4, 1935. Here are scores of tanks lined up just before the demonstration began.
Defying provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany began rearming itself at a rapid rate shortly after Hitler came to power in
1933. (AP Photo)

22. America's Jesse Owens,
center, salutes during the
presentation of his gold medal
for the long jump on August
11, 1936, after defeating Nazi
Germany's Lutz Long, right,
during the 1936 Summer
Olympics in Berlin. Naoto
Tajima of Japan, left, placed
third. Owens triumphed in the
track and field competition by
winning four gold medals in
the 100-meter and 200-meter
dashes, long jump and 400meter relay. He was the first
athlete to win four gold
medals at a single Olympic
Games. (AP Photo)

23. British Premier Sir Neville Chamberlain, on his return from talks with Hitler in Germany, at Heston airfield,
London, England, on September 24, 1938. Chamberlain brought with him a terms of the plan later to be called
the Munich Agreement, which, in an act of appeasment, allowed Germany to annex Czechoslovakia's
Sudetenland. (AP Photo/Pringle)

24. Members of the Nazi Youth participate in burning books, Buecherverbrennung, in Salzburg, Austria, on April 30,
1938. The public burning of books that were condemned as un-German, or Jewish-Marxist was a common
activity in Nazi Germany. (AP Photo)

25. Windows of shops owned by Jews which were broken during a coordinated anti-Jewish demonstration in Berlin,
known as Kristallnacht, on Nov. 10, 1938. Nazi authorities turned a blind eye as SA stormtroopers and civilians
destroyed storefronts with hammers, leaving the streets covered in pieces of smashed windows. Ninety-one Jews
were killed, and 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps.(AP Photo)

26. While newly-annexed Austria
awaited the arrival of Adolf
Hitler, preparations were
underway. Streets were
decorated and street names
were changed. A workman in
Vienna City square carries a
new name plate for the
square, renaming it "Adolf
Hitler Place" on March 14,
1938. (AP Photo)

27. World War II: The Invasion of Poland and the Winter War

28. View of an undamaged Polish city from the cockpit of a German medium bomber aircraft, likely a Heinkel He 111
P, in 1939. (Library of Congress

29. In 1939, the Polish army still maintained many cavalry squadrons, which had served them well as recently as
the Polish-Soviet War in 1921. A myth emerged about the Polish cavalry leading desperate charges against the
tanks of the invading Nazis, pitting horsemen against armored vehicles. While cavalry units did encounter
armored divisions on occasion, their targets were ground infantry, and their charges were often effective. Nazi
and Soviet propaganda helped fuel the myth of the noble-yet-backward Polish cavalry. This photo is of a Polish
cavalry squadron on maneuvers somewhere in Poland, on April 29, 1939. (AP Photo)

30. Associated Press correspondent Alvin Steinkopf broadcasting from the Free City of Danzig -- at the time, a semi-autonomous citystate tied to Poland. Steinkopf was relating the tense situation in Danzig back to America, on July 11, 1939. Germany had been
demanding the incorporation of Danzing into the Third Reich for months, and appeared to be preparing military action. (AP Photo)

31. Soviet premier Josef Stalin (second from right), smiles while Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov
(seated), signs the non-aggression pact with German Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (third from
right), in Moscow, on August 23, 1939. The man at left is Soviet Deputy Defense Minister and Chief of the
General Staff, Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov. The nonaggression pact included a secret protocol dividing eastern
Europe into spheres of influence in the event of a conflict. The pact now guaranteed that Hitler's troops would
face no resistance from the Soviets if they invaded Poland, bringing the war one step closer to reality. (AP
Photo/File)

32. Two days after Germany signed the non-aggression pact with the USSR, Great Britain entered into a military
alliance with Poland, on August 25, 1939. This photo shows the scene one week later, on September 1, 1939,
one of the first military operations of Germany's invasion of Poland, and the beginning of World War II. Here, the
German battleship Schleswig-Holstein is bombing a Polish military transit depot at Westerplatte in the Free City
of Danzig. Simultaneously, the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), and ground troops (Heer) were attacking several
other Polish targets. (AP Photo)

33. Two tanks of the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division cross the Bzura River during the German invasion of
Poland in September of 1939. The Battle of Bzura, the largest of the entire campaign, lasted more than a week,
ending with the German forces capturing most of western Poland. (LOC/Klaus Weill)

34. Britain's King George VI broadcasts to the British nation on the first evening of the war, on September 3, 1939, in
London. (AP Photo)

35. A conflict which would end with the dropping of two nuclear bombs began with a proclamation read aloud by a
town crier. Acting Town Crier and Saltbearer of the City of London, W.T. Boston, reads the war proclamation from
the steps of the Royal Exchange, in London, on September 4, 1939. (AP Photo/Putnam)

36. A crowd reads newspaper headlines, "Bombs Rain On Warsaw" as they stand outside the U.S. State Department
building where diplomats held a conference on war conditions in Europe, on September 1, 1939. (AP Photo)

37. The scene of devastation seen on Ordynacka Street in Warsaw, Poland on March 6, 1940. The carcass of a
dead horse lies in the street among enormous piles of debris. While Warsaw was under nearly constant
bombardment during the invasion, on one day alone, September 25, 1939, about 1,150 bombing sorties were
flown by German aircraft against Warsaw, dropping over 550 tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on
the city. (AP Photo)

38. A young Polish boy returns to what was his home and squats among the ruins during a pause in the German air
raids on Warsaw, Poland, in September of 1939. German attacks lasted until Warsaw surrendered on September
28. One week later, the last of the Polish forces capitulated near Lublin, giving full control of Poland to Germany
and the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Julien Bryan)

39. Adolf Hitler salutes parading troops of the German Wehrmacht in Warsaw, Poland, on October 5, 1939 after
the German invasion. Behind Hitler are, from left to right: Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch,
Lieutenant General Friedrich von Cochenhausen, Colonel General Gerd von Rundstedt, and Colonel General
Wilhelm Keitel. (AP Photo)

40. While German forces were concentrated on Poland, anxiety was rising on the Western Front, with French troops
welcoming British soldiers as they deployed along the border with Germany. Here, French troops pose in a
cantonment in France on December 18, 1939. (AP Photo)

41. A party of newspaper men on the Western Front are shown atop one of the big forts somewhere in the Maginot
Line, France, on October 19, 1939, with a French army guide pointing out to them the "no man's land" that
separates the French and German troops.(AP Photo)

42. London's Westminster Bridge and the Houses of parliament, shrouded in darkness, after the great black-out
began, on August 11, 1939. This blackout was the first trial conducted by the Home Office, in preparation for
possible German air raids. (AP Photo)

43. This was the scene at Holborn Town Hall, in London, England, as officials and mothers tested the reactions of
babies to a respirator designed to protect them against poison gas on March 3, 1939. Several babies, all under
the age of two, were fitted with the "baby helmets." (AP Photo)

44. German Chancellor and dictator Adolf Hitler consults a geographical survey map with his general staff including
Heinrich Himmler (left) and Martin Bormann (right) at an undisclosed location in 1939. (AFP/Getty Images)

45. World War II: Axis Invasions and the Fall of France

46. Waves of German paratroopers land on snow-covered rock ledges in the Norwegian port and city of Narvik,
during the German invasion of the Scandinavian country. (AP Photo)

47. The remains of a naval battle in Narvik, Norway in 1940. Several battles between German and Norwegian forces
took place in the Ofotfjord in the spring of 1940. (LOC)

48. A group of German Gebirgsjägers (mountain troops) in action in Narvik, Norway, in 1940.(Deutsches
Bundesarchiv/German Federal Archive)

49. An aircraft spotter on the roof of a building in London, England, with St. Paul's Cathedral in the
background. (National Archives)

50. Belgian women tearfully have goodbye to husbands and sons leaving for the front line as the threat of invasion
hung heavily over their homeland, on May 11, 1940. (AP Photo)

51. Reconnaissance squads head the German advance into Luxembourg, on May 10, 1940. (AP Photo)

52. German parachute troops descending on Fort Eben Emael in Belgium, on May 30, 1940, part of a larger surprise
attack. (AP Photo)

53. A formation of German Dornier Do 17Z light bombers, flying over France on June 21, 1940.(Deutsches
Bundesarchiv/German Federal Archive)

54. Hundreds of thousands of British and French troops who had fled advancing German forces massed on the
beach of Dunkirk, France, on June 4, 1940, awaiting ships to carry them to England. (AP Photo)

55. German troops parade in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 20, 1940 to celebrate Hitler's birthday. (AP Photo)

56. German troops walk down a deserted street in Luxembourg, on May 21, 1940, with rifles, pistols and grenades
ready to protect themselves. (AP Photo)

57. Refugees leave their ruined town in Belgium, after it had been bombed by the Germans, carrying what little of
their personal belongings they managed to salvage, on May 19, 1940. (AP Photo)

58. Nazi motorcyclists pass through a destroyed town in France in 1940. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv/German Federal
Archive)

59. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects Britain's Grenadier guards standing at attention in front of Light
Bren gun armored units in July, 1940. (AP Photo)

60. Adolf Hitler poses in Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background, one day after the formal capitulation of
France, on June 23, 1940. He is accompanied by Albert Speer, German Reichsminister of armaments and
Hitler's chief architect, left, and Arno Breker, professor of visual arts in Berlin and Hitler's favorite sculptor, right.
An unknown cameraman seen in the foreground is filming the event. Photo provided by the German War
Department. (AP Photo/German War Department)

61. The German flag flies over Paris

62. Germans march in Paris

63. Heavy mortars of Hitler's Army are set in position under cliffs on the French side of the English Channel, at
Fecamp, France, in 1940, as Germany occupied France and the low countries. (AP Photo)

64. World War II: The Battle of Britain

65. The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral (undamaged) stands out among the flames and smoke of surrounding buildings
during heavy attacks of the German Luftwaffe on December 29, 1940 in London, England. (AP Photo/U.S. Office
of War Information)

66. Three anti-aircraft guns flash in the dark in London, on September 20, 1940, throwing shells at raiding German
planes. Shells in stacked rows behind the guns leap about as the concussions from the firing loosen them. (AP
Photo)

67. A German twin propelled Messerschmitt BF 110 bomber, nicknamed "Fliegender Haifisch" (Flying Shark), over
the English Channel, in August of 1940. (AP Photo)

68. The condensation trails from German and British fighter planes engaged in an aerial battle appear in the sky over
Kent, along the southeastern coast of England, on September 3, 1940. (AP Photo)

69. Two German Luftwaffe Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers return from an attack against the British south coast, during the
Battle for Britain, on August 19, 1940. (AP Photo)

70. The Palace of Westminster in London, silhouetted against light from fires caused by bombings. (Library of
Congress)

71. Firemen spray water on damaged buildings, near London Bridge, in the City of London on September 9, 1940,
after a recent set of weekend air raids. (AP Photo)

72. Undaunted by a night of German air raids in which his store front was blasted, a shopkeeper opens up the
morning after for "business as usual" in London. (AP Photo)

73. A Nazi Heinkel He 111 bomber flies over London in the autumn of 1940. The Thames River runs through the
image.(AP Photo/British Official Photo)

74. Mrs. Mary Couchman, a 24-year-old
warden of a small Kentish Village,
shields three little children, among them
her son, as bombs fall during an air
attack on October 18, 1940. The three
children were playing in the street when
the siren suddenly sounded. Bombs
began to fall as she ran to them and
gathered the three in her arms,
protecting them with her body.
Complimented on her bravery, she said,
"Oh, it was nothing. Someone had look
after the children." (AP Photo)

75. Fires rage in the city of London after a lone German bomber had dropped incendiary bombs close to the heart of
the city on September 1, 1940. (AP Photo)

76. Princess Elizabeth of England (center), 14-year-old heiress apparent to the British throne, makes her broadcast
debut, delivering a three-minute speech to British girls and boys evacuated overseas, on October 22, 1940, in
London, England. She is joined in bidding good-night to her listeners by her sister, Princess Margaret Rose. (AP
Photo)

77. A forward machine gunner sits at his battle position in the nose of a German Heinkel He 111 bomber, while en
route to England in November of 1940. (AP Photo)

78. A boy sits amid the ruins of a London bookshop following an air raid on October 8, 1940, reading a book titled
"The History of London."(AP Photo)

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