World War II Photographs
Explore the devastating history of World War 2 documented in these curated vintage photographs. WWII was a destructive major war fought between the Axis (Germany, Japan and Italy) and the Allies (Great Britain, the US and Soviet Union). The war broke out in Europe in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, while it started in the Pacific in 1941 after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. It officially ended in 1945 when Germany surrendered to the Allies and after the atomic bombings of Japanese towns of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. More than 70 million people were killed, including 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust under the Nazi regime.
Explore the devastating history of World War 2 documented in these curated vintage photographs. WWII was a destructive major war fought between the Axis (Germany, Japan and Italy) and the Allies (Great Britain, the US and Soviet Union). The war broke out in Europe in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, while it started in the Pacific in 1941 after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. It officially ended in 1945 when Germany surrendered to the Allies and after the atomic bombings of Japanese towns of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. More than 70 million people were killed, including 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust under the Nazi regime.
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