Members of the French Forces of the Interior disarming a wounded German soldier during the street fighting that erupted as the Allied troops entered Paris, August 1944
June 08, 2013, 5:00pm / 76
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You’ll hang me now, but I am not alone. There are two hundred million us. You can’t hang us all.
— Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya’s purported words before being executed
June 07, 2013, 11:45pm / 91
Men of the Dutch resistance rounding up the collaborators after liberation
May 18, 2013, 1:00pm / 42
Polish General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (in the plain clothes, far left of the frame) who gave the command to begin the failed Warsaw Uprising, removes his cap in a sign of respect for his captured fighters as they pass.
May 13, 2013, 5:00pm / 18
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