Photos Taken in Germany | World War II Database

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US troops inspecting the hulk of an Me 262 jet fighter alongside the autobahn south of Munich, Germany, May 1945.	Victims at the Landsberg Concentration Camp, Landsberg am Lech, Germany, Apr-May 1945; General Charles Palmer described them as having suffered from typhus and lice

Victims of the death train that traveled from Buchenwald Concentration Camp to Dachau Concentration Camp during Apr 1945; photo taken at Dachau, Germany in late Apr or early May 1945	War damaged German city, May 1945

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp's cleansing station where, during Nazi occupation, sick inmates were washed and deloused, Germany, 1-4 May 1945	Russian troops fighting in Berlin, Germany, circa Apr-May 1945; note Mosin-Nagant M1944 Carbine and Degtyaryov Pekhotny 'DP' light machine gun

German troops surrendering their weapons near a subway entrance, Berlin, Germany, 2 May 1945	Helmuth Weidling (left) and other German generals in Soviet captivity, Berlin, Germany, 2 May 1945

Red Army soldier Mikhail Alekseevich Yegorov of Soviet 756 Rifle Regiment flying the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, 2 May 1945, photo 1 of 3	Red Army soldier Mikhail Alekseevich Yegorov of Soviet 756 Rifle Regiment flying the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, 2 May 1945, photo 2 of 3

Red Army soldier Mikhail Alekseevich Yegorov of Soviet 756 Rifle Regiment flying the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, 2 May 1945, photo 2 of 3	Stuart tank of the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment on the autobahn during the British Army’s approach to Lubeck in northern Germany, 2 May 1945.

After liberating Dachau concentration camp, members of the US 42nd Division inspecting a railroad carriage full of dead prisoners, May 1945.	British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery hosting a delegation of German officers at his headquarters at Lüneburg Heath, Germany to discuss surrender plans, 3 May 1945.

Fence, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, 3 May 1945	General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny presenting awards to French, French colonial, and American troops, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 May 1945; note Brigadier General Carl Baehr (front row) and Brigadier General Charles Palmer (second row) also present

German civilians using ox carts to transport corpses of prisoners out of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp for burial, Germany, 3 May 1945; note 'Arbeit macht frei' slogan on the gate	Prisoners at Dachau concentration camp cheer as the US 42nd Division moves in to liberate the camp, 3 May 1945

Prisoners' barracks, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 3 May 1945	Recently liberated prisoners of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp recovering from typhus, Germany, 3 May 1945