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Heinrich Himmler visiting the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria, 27 Apr 1941, photo 1 of 2	Heinrich Himmler visiting the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria, 27 Apr 1941, photo 2 of 2

Reich Commissioner Heinrich Himmler inspecting the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, 27 Apr 1941; the others were, left to right: Gauleiter August Eigruber (over Ziereis's right shoulder), Commandant Franz Ziereis (to Himmler's right), SS-Obersturmführer August Schmidhuber (over Ziereis's left shoulder), General Karl Wolff (behind Himmler), and Franz Kutschera (right edge of photo)	Map of the Battle for the Kalamata waterfront, Kalamata, Greece, Apr 28, 1941.

Sunderland flying boats in Kalamata Harbor waiting to pick up British troops for evacuation, Kalamata, Greece, Apr 28, 1941.	The main train station at Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan, 28 Apr 1941

Sunken battleship Kilkis at the Salamis Naval Base, Greece, late Apr 1941; note bomb-damaged pier; photographed from a German He 60 seaplane after the Germans had secured the naval base	Sunken Kilkis (foreground) and beached Lemnos (background), Salamis, Greece, circa late Apr 1941

The crew of a British Cruiser Mk IV tank studying a map in the Western Desert, Egypt, 30 Apr 1941	Australian troops in a foxhole near Tobruk, Libya, Apr-Dec 1941

Bismarck and Prinz Eugen conducting refueling exercises, Apr-May 1941	Camouflaged German 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun position, North Africa, 1941

Erwin Rommel in North Africa with trench coat and field glasses, circa mid-1941	Female worker operating an engraving machine for a Sten part, Small Arms Ltd. plant, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, May 1941

German soldiers raising the German war flag over the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, May 1941	German troops in Athens, Greece, May 1941

German troops with SdKfz 10 halftrack vehicle and 2-cm FlaK 38 gun, North Africa, Apr-May 1941	HMS York and an oil tanker in Suda Bay, Crete, Greece, May 1941

Italian M13/40 medium tanks in North Africa, Apr-May 1941	Léon Degrelle, Fernand Rouleau, and Victor Matthys (behind Degrelle) leaving the Palais des Arts at Brussels, Belgium, May 1941