A German girl being led from a Berlin train station –
having been gang-raped by Polish youths (typically, war orphans)
who regularly boarded trains to rob or rape German refugees fleeing Poland

Hunger in Palermo, Sicily

Homeless orphaned sisters on a street in Rome

German farmers and miners gathering with families and possessions
to move from the horribly overcrowded American sector to the French sector
where skilled labor was actually in short supply

Some citizens of Cologne, Germany,  resuming as much a normal life as possible -
though for most life amounted to a constant search for food, shelter and clothing - 1946

Britishers looking for coal - Feb. 1947
Cold, rundown mines and lack of transport made the fuel shortage worse than during the War

Recovery was not quick:  Hamburg still in Ruins - 1947

Black-market trading between soldiers and civilians - Berlin Tiergarten - summer 1945
Cameras, household goods and hierlooms were traded for money or cigarettes - to then purchase scarce food

Berliners looking for anything of value that can be used for barter

Citizens of Dresden sorting out useable brick and stone as a volunteer effort to rebuild Germany

A woman in Nuremberg in a makeshift home cooking a mix of apples, potatoes and greens

A small group of German women and children arriving in the British sector of Berlin - October 1945
the sole survivors of 150 who were expelled from Lodz, Poland, 270 miles away.
The mother in front is striding out ahead, anxious to get help for her 3-year old son.

The mother clasps the son to keep him warm – and then realizes that her son has just died.

The women grieving as the boy's head is pillowed on a railroad track

A German girl being led from a Berlin train station –
having been gang-raped by Polish youths (typically, war orphans)
who regularly boarded trains to rob or rape German refugees fleeing Poland

Hunger in Palermo, Sicily

Homeless orphaned sisters on a street in Rome

German farmers and miners gathering with families and possessions
to move from the horribly overcrowded American sector to the French sector
where skilled labor was actually in short supply

Some citizens of Cologne, Germany,  resuming as much a normal life as possible -
though for most life amounted to a constant search for food, shelter and clothing - 1946

Britishers looking for coal - Feb. 1947
Cold, rundown mines and lack of transport made the fuel shortage worse than during the War

Recovery was not quick:  Hamburg still in Ruins - 1947

A small group of German women and children arriving in the British sector of Berlin - October 1945
the sole survivors of 150 who were expelled from Lodz, Poland, 270 miles away.
The mother in front is striding out ahead, anxious to get help for her 3-year old son.

The mother clasps the son to keep him warm – and then realizes that her son has just died.

The women grieving as the boy's head is pillowed on a railroad track

Black-market trading between soldiers and civilians - Berlin Tiergarten - summer 1945
Cameras, household goods and hierlooms were traded for money or cigarettes - to then purchase scarce food

Berliners looking for anything of value that can be used for barter

Citizens of Dresden sorting out useable brick and stone as a volunteer effort to rebuild Germany

A woman in Nuremberg in a makeshift home cooking a mix of apples, potatoes and greens

A small group of German women and children arriving in the British sector of Berlin - October 1945
the sole survivors of 150 who were expelled from Lodz, Poland, 270 miles away.
The mother in front is striding out ahead, anxious to get help for her 3-year old son.

The mother clasps the son to keep him warm – and then realizes that her son has just died.

The women grieving as the boy's head is pillowed on a railroad track

La cloche olympique à Berlin en 1936.

La cloche olympique à Berlin en 1936.

A Nazi flag outside the German consulate's house on Chestnut Street in Beacon Hill, May 1940

During the 1930s in Yaphank, New York, members of the Nazi party march through the Long Island town, where they also organized a pro-Hitler summer camp

Father Charles Coughlin, known as ‘the founder of hate radio,’ was a leading proponent of American anti-Semitism during the 1930s

The German-American Bund marching through New York City in 1939

Booing and Jeering Crowd Stop Fritz Kuhn From Speaking to German-Americans in N.J.