An article about Germany’s surrender during World War II on 7 May 1945; V-E Day was celebrated the next day.
Took this picture at the Brooklyn Bethel of Jehovah's Witnesses, the well known clothing of a prisoner in the German concentration camps, bearing the purple triangle, identifying the prisoner as a Jehovah's Witness.
Leo Metzstein (pictured) has been talking about the Kindertransport scheme which evacuated Jewish children from Germany to England before World War II.
Black enlisted men were used as human guinea pigs in chemical experiments during World War II—not by Nazi Germany, but by Uncle Sam. As was reported by
Leo Metzstein (pictured) has been talking about the Kindertransport scheme which evacuated Jewish children from Germany to England before World War II.
Here you have some political cartoons about the consequences of the Conference of Paris and the Treaty of Versailles: - The execution of Germany, according by Simplicissimus, a German magazine: Source: http://www.johndclare.net/peace_treaties5.htm - The winners obliging Germany to swallow the peace terms´ pill: Source: http://www.johndclare.net/peace_treaties5.htm - The military sanctions to Germany: Source: http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/LSE6345 -Hard sanctions imposed to Germany and the difficulties for its recovery: Source: http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/LSE6501 -The peace treaties seen as future cannon fodders: Source: http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/P0497 - Germany slapped by Versailles hand: Source: http://www.holylandmap.net/anthro/enmedia.htm - Clemenceau, the French president, represented as a vampire, sucking Germany´s blood: Source: http://www.johndclare.net/how_to_interpret_cartoons.htm - The need for an impartial referee in Europe: Source: http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/LSE6827 The following cartoons refer to the hopes pinned on the League of Nations as guarantor of peace: - President Wilson´s idealism blowing up the bubble of the League of Nations: Source: http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/2428/2487068/images/img_w401.html - The League of Nations as the rainbow afyer the storm of war and as the muzzle that would contain the dog of war: Source: http://homepage.mac.com/oldtownman/text/versaillestreaty/vercontents.html
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