Adolf Hitler delivers a speech at the Kroll Opera House to the men of the Reichstag on the subject of Roosevelt and the war in the Pacific, declaring war on the United States. 11 December 1941.
Photograph: German Federal Archives
A view taken from Dresden’s town hall of the destroyed Old Town after the Allied British and American bombings between 13 and 15 February 1945. Some 3,600 aircraft dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the German city. The resulting firestorm destroyed 15 square miles of the city center, and killed between 22,000 and 25,000 civilians. Dresden, Saxony, Germany. June 1945.
Photograph: Walter Hahn/AFP/Getty Images.
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