German Aggression

Photos of German Aggression, Hitler, German Troops, Reichstag, Berlin

We have gathered a collection of some of the best and most moving photos taken during the Second World War. They are from the National Archives in Washington D.C.
Please browse at your leisure. Meditate on the sacrifice given by these men and women in wartime.

This page is dedicated to pictures of German Aggression

"Hitler accepts the ovation of the Reichstag after announcing the 'peaceful' acquisition of Austria. It set the stage to annex the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland, largely inhabited by a German-speaking population." Berlin, March 1938. German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland. PK Hugo J.ger, September 1939.
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"The tragedy of this Sudeten woman, unable to conceal her misery as she dutifully salutes the triumphant Hitler, is the tragedy of the silent millions who have been 'won over' to Hitlerism by the 'everlasting use' of ruthless force." Ca. 1938. Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov signs the German-Soviet nonaggression pact; Joachim von Ribbentrop and Josef Stalin stand behind him. Moscow, August 23. 1939.
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British prisoners at Dunkerque, France, June 1940. "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."
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Adolf Hitler in Paris, June 23, 1940. German troops in Russia, 1941.
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