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Casualties of an attack on a French defensive position.

A poison gas attack.

Trench cleaners.

Dead Germans.

Living and dead soldiers in the mud in the battle of Passchendaele.

An elephant-mounted machine gun.

Christmas in a German trench.

A German anti-tank rifle found by New Zealand troops.

Another colorized ww1 photo.

Colorized photo of German soldiers looking upon the bodies of fallen Italian soldiers.

A fallen Finnish soldier.

Italian alpinists defending an attack from a trench.

A French soldier firing from a trench, with the body of a comrade resting on him.

A French soldier with a severed German head. Probably found rotting somewhere.

Trench feet.

A German "Beware of death" sign above an unexploded shell stuck in a tree.

German soldiers searching a Red Army soldier.

Japanese battleship Ise under air attack. July 1945, Kure.

A German soldier and his dead comrade.

Soldiers aided by Despatch Riders fire a Schmeisser into a battered house. July 10, 1944 Caen.

Definitely a German is in there.

Battle of Berlin, May 1945: The battle is over and the German tank emplaced as stationery artillery is surrounded by spent shells fired at the enemy.

G.I standing over a dead Japanese soldier. Sometimes they pretended to be dead and blew themselves up and anyone close with a grenade.

A wounded German soldier is tended by a comrade during the open stages of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

A dead German killed during the Battle of the Bulge surrounded with family photographs.

People ate their fellow humans during the WW2, especially the Japanese soldiers. But they didn't do it merely because they were hungry. Prisoners of war where coldly killed, then their bodies were completely stripped of all consumable flesh (usually hands and feets were left untouched). Some unlucky victims had their flesh ripped from their arms and legs while they were still alive.

Red Army mortar crew after a direct hit by German counterfire.

A Soviet soldier buried in a haste.

French armor passing through St. Mere Eglise, June 1944.

A dead American soldier who trying to quench his thirst at a water pump, had set off a German made booby trap. June, 1944.

Germans surrendering to Soviet troops.

A Soviet POW removes the charred remains of a comrade with meat hook from the location of an engagement between the German and Red Army.

Soldiers of US 29th Infantry Division take cover after a German sniper has already killed one of their own. Feb 20, 1945.