Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei
(center) in Berlin with Soviet forces, near the
Brandenburg Gate in May of 1945.
One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy,
German prisoners landscape the first U.S.
cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France,
near "Omaha" Beach, on May 28, 1945.
Jewish survivors of the Buchenwald Nazi
concentration camp, some still in their camp
clothing, stand on the deck of the refugee
immigration ship Mataroa, on July 15, 1945 at
Haifa port, during the British Mandate of
Palestine, in what would later become the State
of Israel. During World War II, millions of Jews
were fleeing Germany and its occupied
territories, many attempting to enter the British
Mandate of Palestine, despite tight restrictions
on Jewish immigration established by the
British in 1939. Many of these would-be
immigrants were caught and rounded up into
detention camps. In 1947, Britain announced
plans to withdraw from the territory, and the
United Nations approved the Partition Plan for
Palestine, establishing a Jewish and a
Palestinian state in the country. On May 14,
1948, Israel declared independence and was
immediately attacked by neighboring Arab
states, beginning the Arab-Israeli conflict which
continues to this day.
German Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is
tied to a stake before his execution by a firing
squad in a stockade in Aversa, Italy, on
December 1, 1945. The General, Commander of
the 75th Army Corps, was sentenced to death
by an United States Military Commission in
Rome for having ordered the shooting of 15
unarmed American prisoners of war, in La
Spezia, Italy, on March 26, 1944.
Soviet soldiers with lowered standards of the
defeated Nazi forces during the Victory Day
parade in Moscow, on June 24, 1945.
U.S. military authorities prepare to hang Dr.
Klaus Karl Schilling, 74, at Landsberg,Germany,
on May 28, 1946. In a Dachau war crimes trial
he was convicted of using 1,200 concentration
camp prisoners for malaria experimentation.
Thirty died directly from the inoculations and
300 to 400 died later from complications of the
disease. His experiments, all with unwilling
subjects, began in 1942.
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