WWII Photo Archive
Rare and powerful images from World War II — photographs that tell stories words alone cannot.
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Ruins of Lidice
Aerial photograph showing the completely destroyed village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, after the Nazi retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
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Sobibor memorial
Memorial at the site of the former Sobibor extermination camp, showing the path prisoners took during the October 1943 escape
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Liberation of concentration camp
U.S. soldiers and emaciated survivors at a liberated concentration camp — one of the most powerful images of WWII