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"The German ultimatum ordering the Dutch commander of Rotterdam to cease fire was delivered to him at 10:30 a.m. on May 15, 1940. At 1:22 pm., German bombers set the whole inner city of Rotterdam ablaze, killing 30,000 of its inhabitants. Aerial view of the ruins of Rotterdam." |
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"Choked with debris, a bombed water intake of the Pegnitz River no longer supplies war factories in Nuremberg, vital Reich industrial city and festival center of the Nazi party, which was captured April 20, 1945, by troops of the U.S. Army." |
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"American soldiers, stripped of all equipment, lie dead, face down in the slush of a crossroads somewhere on the western front. Captured German photograph. Belgium, ca. December 1944." |
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"With torn picture of his fuehrer beside his clenched fist, a dead general of the Volkssturm lies on the floor of city hall, Leipzig, Germany. He committed suicide rather than face U.S. Army troops who captured the city on April 19, 1945. T5c. J.M. Heslop." |
