WWII - The year of 1944

30.11.1944 - A young man from the SS with hands up. He came into American captivity during the Ardennes Offensive in December 1944.
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31.07.1944 - American troops march across the Champs Elysee after the liberation of the French capital, in the background the Arc de Triomphe. German commander Dietrich von Choltitz had given t...
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31.07.1944 - Paris inhabitants greet the American troops after the liberation of the city. German commander Dietrich von Choltitz had given the order to retreat or lay down arms, although Hitl...
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30.11.2002 - German officer and later resistance fighter Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg in a photograph from the early 1930s. He was born on the 15th of November in 1907. During his success...
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26.08.1944 - General Charles de Gaulle (r) inspects a motorised division near the Arc de Triomphe after the entry to Paris on the 26th of August in 1944. German commander Dietrich von Choltitz...
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15.10.1944 - American soldiers carry away a wounded soldier during street fights in an European city. In the background a tank. Picture taken during the advance of the Allied Forces on the 15th...
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01.09.1944 - Alliierte Truppen im September 1944 beim Vormarsch auf Aachen. Am 08.05.1945 endete mit der offiziellen Kapitulation Deutschlands der Zweite Weltkrieg in Europa. +++(c) dpa - Repor...
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01.01.1944 - The destroyed city of Königsberg (East Prussia) after the air raid in August 1944. Foto: dpa +++(c) dpa - Report+++
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13.09.2001 - German Army in Italy WW2 Paratroopers fighting among the ruins of the Monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy. April 1944 Italy / Mono Print
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13.09.2001 - German troops among the ruins of the monastry at Monte Cassino. April 1944 Italy / Mono Print
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04.04.2002 - This picture was taken on 15th March 1944 as 2,500 tons of bombs rained down on Cassino in Italy. When the barrage lifted, the fight for the ruins began. Italy / Mono Print
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01.01.2000 - WW2, Zweiter Weltkrieg: Russia, Leningrad Front/ Greeting soldiers of the Soviet Army in liberated RIGA. 1944 Russian Federation
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01.01.2000 - WW2, Zweiter Weltkrieg: Polish troops in action on Monte Cassino area. Throwing bombs, May 1944. France
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01.01.2000 - WW2, Zweiter Weltkrieg: German paratroops fighting among the ruins of Monte Cassino Monastery. April 1944. France
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01.01.2000 - Just retribution , the German civilians turn to be refugees. German civilians learn what it is to lose home and posessions in the face of an advancing army. Aachen October 1944 G...
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01.01.2000 - This street in Aachen was blocked to all but the infantry, US troops advancing slowly but surely over the mountains of rubble. October 1944 Germany / Mono Book Illustration
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01.01.1944 - Soviet soldiers of the Red Army in Budapest, which is destroyed by the war. Photo:Yevgeny Khaldei
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08.05.1944 - Soviet planes of the type Jak 9 accompany the American bomber "Boston", which was steered by a Soviet pilot on the 9th of May 1944, during an air raid on Sewastopol. Photo: Yevgen...
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26.12.1944 - A man sits next to two women on the pavement, who were shot in the ghetto of Budapest. Photo: Yevgeny Khaldei
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01.10.1944 - Cheering and posters for Soviet general Stalin at a rally in Bulgaria in autumn 1944. Photo: Yevgeny Khaldei
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20.10.1944 - Soldiers of the Soviet army and Yugoslavian partisans celebrate the liberation of Belgrad on the 20th of October 1944. Photo: Yevgeny Khaldei
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01.04.1944 - Soviet Soldiers storm on shore from their war ships during an attack on Sewastopol. On the 12th of May 1944 the Soviet army had beaten the remaining German troups in Sewastopol in...
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01.04.1944 - A Soviet soldier leads a blindfolded German prisoner of war in the Crimea near Sewastopol in 1944. Photo: Yevgeny Khaldei
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11.05.1944 - A soldier of the Red Army with a bandoleer is standing in front a gun of a war ship at Sewastopol on the Black Sea, in 1944.
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08.05.1944 - Soviet planes type Jak 9 convoy an American bomber ('Boston') during an attack on the city of Swestopol, which is still occupied by the German Wehrmacht, on 8 May 1944.
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04.06.1944 - 5675004 (900340) Am 04.06.1944 konnten die alliierten Truppen kampflos in Rom einmarschieren. UBz.: US Soldaten in Rom im Juni 1944.
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04.06.1944 - 5672270 (900340) Am 04.06.1944 konnten die alliierten Truppen kampflos in Rom einmarschieren. UBz.: US Soldaten in Rom im Juni 1944.
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02.09.1944 - The Nazi Propaganda! on the back of the image reads: "Long columns move forward on the dusty and much-frequented streets. The demand for ammunition, fuel, and supplies is high at t...
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