When Nordhausen concentration camp in Thuringia was liberated by the 104th US Infantry Division on April 12, 1945, the soldiers found horrific scenes. Over 3,000 corpses were scattered around the camp.
Category: War
The 8th Army Breaks Open a Concentration Camp in Italy – Picture Post, 1943
Six weeks after Mussolini’s downfall, in September 1943, the British 8th Army liberated an Italian internment camp in Ferramonti.
What We Are Fighting For – Picture Post, 1940
When this issue of Picture Post was printed in July 1940, WWII was well on its way, and not going well for Britain and her Allies. In late May, Belgium surrendered and Dunkirk was evaculated; one month later, France herself surrendered. The Battle of Britain had commenced and it seemed like the Nazi invasion of Britain itself was imminent.
Vietnam Heroico by Roberto Salas, 1967
In 1967, Roberto Salas working for the Cuban state organ, Revolución, spent several weeks in Vietnam to produce a special report for a magazine in Cuba.
Fall of Mussolini – Picture Post, 1943
No publication was happier about Il Duce’s fall from power than Picture Post. Its August 14, 1943 issue recapped the rule of Mussolini and labelled the titular “condemned man” as a gangster, agitator, revolutionary, and dictator.
A Day with the Algerian Liberation Army, 1958
In 1954, the war for Algerian independence broke out and women joined ranks to fight for their country as paramilitary fighters, nurses, cooks, fundraisers.
Water War in Viet Nam by Dickey Chapelle, 196
Dickey Chapelle’s coverage on ‘Water War in Vietnam’, on the South Vietnamese Army gunboats being often shot from the Mekong river banks by Vietcong machine guns and snipers, appeared in the National Geographic after her death.
The Siege of Derry by Don McCullin, 1971
On the Sunday before Christmas 1971, in an edition filled with advertisements for Xmas gifts, the Sunday Times magazine published as its lead story a portfolio of 12 photographs about the escalating conflict in Northern Ireland.
Helicopters over South Viet Nam by Dickey Chapelle, 1962
Dickey Chapelle arrived in Vietnam in the early ’60s, and described her early experiences in “What’s a Woman Doing Here?” On an assignment for National Geographic, she embedded with the helicopter units waging an aerial battle over Vietnam.
Shell-shocked soldier by Don McCullin, 1968
The photo above of a dazed American soldier, entitled Shellshocked US Marine would become the most well-known of McCullin’s photos from Hue.