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Battle of May 8, 1945, heralding Germany’s surrender.
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Battle of May 8, 1945, heralding Germany’s surrender.
Combat newspaper, May 8, 1945 © BNF, Gallica
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15.1 The Scale of the Genocide
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A parade of UJJ members on July 14, 1945. Among those present were Resistance fighters who had survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
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A view of the “death march” from the Dachau camp in April 1945. German civilians secretly photographed several “death marches.”
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Buchenwald: American soldiers standing in front of a mass grave of burned bodies (April 12, 1945).
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Drawing by the communist engraver Pierre Provost, an active participant in the Buchenwald camp uprising (April 11, 1945).
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Generaloberst Alfred Jodl signing, on behalf of the Wehrmacht High Command, the documents formalizing Nazi Germany’s surrender in Reims on May 7, 1945.
