liquidnight:

Henry Ries

Sektorengrenze an der Oberbaumbrücke, November 1948

From Ich War Ein Berliner: Erinnerungen Eines New Yorker Fotojournalisten

World War II — Arkady Shaikhet, c. 1940

lecollecteur:

1945

Russian soldiers sleeping with a puppy in Prague during World War 2.

(via Photo Tractatus)

kvetchlandia:

Erwin Blumenfeld     Self-portrait     1933

Blumenfeld, a Jew,  fled the rise of nazism in 1936, emigrating to France.  When the Nazis conquered France, he was briefly imprisoned in  concentration camp.  His renown as a photographer got him released from the camp and he was able to again flee, this time to the United States, thus surviving the war that killed so many of his compatriots.

liquidnight:

Toni Frissell

The Homeless Victims of War

London, 1945

From Toni Frissell: Photographs 1933-1967

nostalgiya:

The Elephant and Castle underground station during the “Blitz” (7 September 1940 - 10 May 1941), which was the sustained bombing of London and many other towns and cities in Britain by Nazi Germany during World War II. Photograph by Bill Brandt.

velveteenrabbit:

ihatemusic1943:

“This girl pays the penalty for having had personal relations with the Germans. Here, in the Montelimar area, France, French civilians shave her head as punishment. August 20, 1944.”

(theconsequencesofactingout.)

kvetchlandia:

nostalgiya:

Attack, Dmitri Baltermants, 1941.

By the end of November 1941, the Germans had already suffered 250,000 casualties in Russia. In December, the Russians began their counterattack. When first published, Baltermants’ photo of charging soldiers was criticized as it depicted “half-a-man,” and was thus inconsistent with socialist realist standards. It has since become one of the most enduring war photos ever taken. (via)

This is a great photo of the savagery of battle in the place where the Nazis really were defeated, the Eastern Front.

miguee-e:

wornwit:

A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France.

crashinglybeautiful:

liquidnight:

Two little girls read a board advertising carrots instead of ice lollies. Wartime shortages of chocolate and ice cream made such substitutions a necessity, London, April 1941.

Photographer unknown

[via the BBC News Archive]