World War, 1939-1945

Hideki Tojo chats with his attorney, Captain Beverly Coleman, Chief Defense Council, before arraignment at the War Crimes Trial in Tokyo. This includes a duplicate photo and 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.

General Tojo and other alleged Japanese war criminals arrive at the War Ministry Building for their arraignment. This includes a duplicate photo and 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.

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.