Reparations

Chinese people walking through the "Flea Market" area of outdoor merchant stalls in Mukden, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Chinese people in the "Flea Market" in Mukden, Manchuria, an outside area of merchants' stalls. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

View of the plaza in front of the Shenyang Railway Hotel (also known as the Yamoto Hotel) in Mukden, Manchuria, with people walking past a large obelisk under construction. The Reparations Mission party stayed at the Shenyang Railway Hotel. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

View of the plaza in front of the Shenyang Railway Hotel (also known as Yamato Hotel) in Mukden, Manchuria, including people walking, bicycling, and riding in horse-drawn carts and wagons. The Reparations Mission party stayed in the Shenyang Railway Hotel. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

View of the plaza in front of the Shenyang Railway Hotel (also known as Yamato Hotel) in Mukden, Manchuria, including people walking, bicycling, and riding in horse-drawn carts. The Reparations Mission party stayed in the Shenyang Railway Hotel. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Chinese man walking past a row of shops in a street scene from Mukden, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Charles A. Karl, a member of the Reparations Mission led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, with a sign in Chinese and English on the street in Mukden, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

John Matles (second from right), member of Reparations Mission led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, investigates Chinese mess in Mukden, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Reparations Mission party led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley returning from an inspection trip in Mukden, Manchuria. No one is identified. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

A monument erected by the Soviets, with a Russian tank placed on top of it, in commemoration of the surrender of the Japanese army. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).