Law of War
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. - Elie Wiesel
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→ 02 Apr 13 at 5 am
→ 02 Apr 13 at 5 am
This is Rose Valland, one of the heroes of Nazi-Occupied France. An employee of the Louvre, she kept records of the art stolen by Nazi officers- what was taken, from where, and by who. She was instrumental in the postwar return of countless stolen pieces, and one of the most decorated women in French history.
(via histoire-fanatique)
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→ 22 Mar 13 at 1 pm
→ 22 Mar 13 at 1 pm
life:
Magazines scattered among the rubble of the heavily bombed town of Saint-Lô, Normandy, France, summer 1944. See more photos here.
(Frank Scherschel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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→ 20 Mar 13 at 4 pm
→ 20 Mar 13 at 4 pm
Practicing how to put gas masks on children, France 1940
(via worldwarsandjunk)
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→ 13 Mar 13 at 1 pm
→ 13 Mar 13 at 1 pm
US soldiers of I Company, 331st IR, 83rd Infantry Division, engage in street fighting with a German sniper in Saint-Malo, France - 8 August 1944
(via histoire-fanatique)
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→ 08 Mar 13 at 10 am
→ 08 Mar 13 at 10 am
A German soldier stands guard in front of a defensive work at Cap Gris Nez, France. It was built by the Organisation Todt as part of the Atlantic Wall, (Bundesarchiv) 1942.
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→ 17 Feb 13 at 1 pm
→ 17 Feb 13 at 1 pm
A 2½-ton, 6x6, Amphibious Truck driving through the dunes in Normandy, France, 1944.
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→ 18 Jan 13 at 12 pm
→ 18 Jan 13 at 12 pm
Two Nuns and a French family examine the ruins of the bombed Church of St. Malo, in Valognes, France, near Cherbourg; July 1944. (via)
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→ 15 Jan 13 at 5 pm
→ 15 Jan 13 at 5 pm
A German shell strikes the Cathedral of Rheims. France, 1916.
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