German forces in the outskirts of Warsaw. In the background of the photograph, the city burns as a result of the German military assault. Warsaw, Poland, September 1939. Photograph »
A Polish town lies in ruins following the German invasion of Poland, which began on September 1, 1939. Photograph »
German tanks pass a reviewing stand during a victory parade following the German defeat of Poland. Warsaw, Poland, October 5, 1939. Photograph »
The Sigismund Monument stands amid rubble in the Polish capital after Germany's Blitzkrieg assault. Warsaw, Poland, 1939. Photograph »
German soldiers lead blindfolded Polish hostages to an execution site. Olkusz, Poland, July 16, 1940. Photograph »
Polish forced laborers construct a highway in Germany. Place uncertain, 1941. Photograph »
A Nazi decree issued in October 1941, in German and Polish, warns that Jews leaving the ghetto, or Poles who aid them, will be executed. Czestochowa, Poland. Photograph »
A Polish prisoner (marked with an identifying patch bearing a "P" for Pole), Julian Noga, at the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Germany, between August 1942 and April 1945. Photograph »
Polish partisans are hanged by the Nazis. Rovno, Poland, 1942. Photograph »
Polish partisans are hanged by the Nazis. Rovno, Poland, 1942. Photograph »
Polish citizens hanged by the Nazis in Sosnowiec. Poland, wartime. Photograph »
German soldiers expel Polish inhabitants from the Zamosc area. Poland, 1942-1943. Photograph »
SS doctors examine Polish children judged "racially valuable" for adoption by Germans. Poland, October 1942. Photograph »
German officers examine Polish children to determine whether they qualify as "Aryan." Poland, wartime. Photograph »
Polish babies, chosen for their "Aryan" features, to be adopted and raised as ethnic Germans. Poland, 1941–1943. Photograph »
Polish and Russian forced laborers shot by the SS after they had collapsed from exhaustion during a death march. Wisenfeld, Germany, April 26, 1945. Photograph »
A Polish town in ruins after six years of war and German occupation. Poland, 1945. Photograph »
