World War, 1939-1945

Photo of Ex-Prime Minister Tojo after an attempted suicide. Tojo will be tried before International Military Tribunal for the Far East. This photo includes a duplicate and a negative. From: Scrapbook presented to Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan on the occasion of his visit to General Headquarters U. S. Army Forces, Pacific, in Tokyo, Japan, July, 1946.

The Justices of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. This includes a duplicate photo and negative. From: Scrapbook presented Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan on the occasion of his visit to General Headquarters U. S. Army Forces, Pacific, in Tokyo, Japan, July, 1946.

Atrocities committed by German troops in the vicinity of Five Points, near Malmedy, Belgium, on or about December 17, 1944. Photograph made after recapture of ground and exhumation of bodies. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Atrocities committed by German troops in the vicinity of Five Points, near Malmedy, Belgium, on or about December 17, 1944. Photographs made after recapture of ground and exhumation of bodies. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Ebensee concentration camp inmates pose with the Austrian Alps in the background. The camp was liberated by the 80th Division, 3rd United States Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Exhibit of "souvenirs" created by Nazis in Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar. They were seized by General Patton's Third Army. German civilians were brought from town to gaze upon shrunken human heads (left) parts of organs of victims who died of various diseases, and stenciling and tattoo markings on sections of human skin (foreground). Lamp at right was fabricated from skin of camp's dead. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

President Harry S. Truman (seated at desk) announces that Russia has declared war on Japan. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes is seated in the foreground, and Harry Vaughan is to the right of President Truman. Newsmen are grouped in front of the desk. Donor: New York Herald Tribune.

At flag-raising ceremony in Berlin, Germany, from left to right, General Dwight Eisenhower, General George Patton, and President Harry S. Truman. The Flag of Liberation is being raised over the former Nazi headquarters in Berlin. President Truman is in Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference.

Soldiers with Nazi souvenirs from in and around Bastogne, France. Standing: Sgt. Sandy E. Wyatt, New York, New York; First Lieutenant Clair L. Hess, Blairsville, Pennsylvania; Tech. 5th Grade John H. Shaw, Franksville, New York; Staff Sgt. Robert Clifford, Grand Saline, Texas; Tech. 5th Grade Thomas W. Stephens, Hornbeck, Louisiana; Sgt. Stanley P. Koss, Corpus Christi, Texas; Captain Edward W. Cissel, Elizabeth, New Jersey. Kneeling: Sgt. Franklin D. Hendricks, South Boston, Virginia.

In a large barn on the edge of Gardelegen, Germany, at least 150 Russian, French, Polish, and Jewish political prisoners of Nazi Germany were burned to death by S. S. Troops. The atrocity was exposed when the 9th U S Army captured the Gardelegen area before the Germans had time to remove the evidence. Pictured here are a few victims who made a last struggle for life. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."