Coat of arms of the city of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Aerial bombing of Warsaw by German Luftwaffe during the invasion of Poland in World War 2. German soldiers fire artillery. People run for safety in devastated streets of Warsaw. A building in Warsaw lay in ruins. Soldiers and tanks rolling through country after Dunkirk. Warsaw in smoke during aerial bombings by German Luftwaffe. A burned car on street in Warsaw. Polish citizens evacuating as streets of Warsaw in smoke from German aerial bombings. Dead horses in Warsaw street. Polish man cuts horse carcass for meat. Horse skeleton after being scavenged by hungry Poles. People evacuate from burning Warsaw Radio building. German occupying forces enter Warsaw. In Rakow, near Warsaw, Polish and German officers, including Polish officer Kutrzwea and Colonel Aleksander Praglowski along with General Johannes von Blaskowitz sign the surrender of Warsaw in a railroad car on 29 September 1939
Arrival of Nazi military vehicles with soldiers in Warsaw after its capture by Germany during World War 2. German soldiers patrol the besieged streets of Warsaw as citizens watch. Destroyed city blocks in smoke after German bombing. A bomb crater in middle of destroyed city blocks in Warsaw after German bombing. Woman cries over dead relative as gravedigger digs a grave in Warsaw cemetery. Graves in Warsaw cemetery. View of the highest Polish military decoration, the Virtuti Militari. Coat of arms of Warsaw. Warsaw Castle Square (plac Zamkowy01-195 Warszawa, Poland), with Baroque column of Polish King Sigismund III Vasa, in ruins after being shelled, burned and looted by German forces. Graffiti in Polish. Polish resistance fighter crawling in underground tunnel. Collection of guns and grenades. Polish resistance documents and pistol. Man prepares printing press. Man prints more Polish resistance leaflets. Polish resistance fighter proofreads a document. Printing press prints more leaflets. Piles of leaflets. Man carefully wrap reams of leaflets. Polish men walking in Warsaw street. German document announcing daily execution of Poles in Lublin. Two Polish men glues a resistance leaflet in wall. Polish man writes “pawiak pomścimy” (“We will avenge Pawiak” in Polish) on the wall. Man paints graffiti saying “Verloren” (“Lost” in German). Wall displays anti-Nazi graffiti speech and symbols such as “HYCLER”, a hanged Swastika in gallows, a turtle, and the “PW” Kotwica emblem of the Polish Underground State. Writing on the ground says “Polska Walcząca” (“Fighting Poland” in Polish).
A graffiti depicting the “PW” Kotwica emblem of the Polish Underground State during German occupation of Poland in World War 2. Still images depicting the resistance fighters of the Polish Underground State preparing for battle in forest. Still images of Polish resistance fighters wearing old Polish army uniforms. Images of Polish resistance fighters aiming with machine gun and holding ammunition belt of machine gun. Images of Polish resistance fighters in various activities such as praying together, sharing meals, using radio to communicate, treating the wounded and riding horses. Footage of destroyed bridges, railway tracks and infrastructure after being bombed and sabotaged by Polish resistance fighters. Polish resistance fighters pulling down a sign. Footage of derailed trains in Poland.
Destroyed city blocks and rubble in Warsaw ghetto during World War 2. A man writes “WAWER” on pavement as reference to the 1939 massacre of 107 Polish civilians by German forces in Wawer, near Warsaw. Women leave flowers on pavement to commemorate victims in Wawer. Pavement Polish graffiti with the symbol of the PW Polish Underground State. Polish men play with a cartoon Adolf Hitler paper marionette puppet hung on a wall. Polish men hoist cartoon Adolf Hitler puppet in effigy up a lamppost. Bottom of streetlamp with graffiti words written in German.
United States Major General Walton H. Walker receives Fourragère military award from the French during World War 2. French officers march down monument stairs of the Victory Monument in Verdun (Rue Mazel, 55100 Verdun, France) Major General Walton H. Walker, of the XX Corps, receives the Fourragère. Major General Walton H. Walker shakes hands with French officers. French troops pass in review at the Verdun Victory Monument.
Mechanized smoke screen surrounds the harbor of Palermo, Italy during World War 2. Thick smoke screen, provided by the 69th and 78th Chemical Smoke Generator Companies of the United States Army, covers the view of Palermo old town, the Gulf of Mondello, and the nearby Palermo mountain range.
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