Hiroshima, Japan-Devastated by the first atomic bomb nine years ago, Hiroshima is still in the midst of reconstructing its war-torn buildings. By...
Hiroshima, Japan-Devastated by the first atomic bomb nine years ago, Hiroshima is still in the midst of reconstructing its war-torn buildings. The...
The reconstruction of the Sanno Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, circa 1947. The hotel was largely destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II, and was...
Outcaste Burakumin children in an etamura or eta town watching a Kamishibai puppet show, during the post-war Allied occupation of Japan, circa 1950.
Hiroshima, Japan-Devastated by the first atomic bomb nine years ago, Hiroshima is still in the midst of reconstructing its war-torn buildings....
Japanese troops await demobilisation a month after the surrender of Japan, Tokyo, 26th September 1945.
Woman carries a baby past a new block of flats in Hiroshima, Japan, circa 1955. Virtually all the city's old housing was destroyed in the atomic bomb...
The post-war buildings in this district of Nagasaki were erected quickly of wood and cement blocks, and bomb damage appears minimal, despite the...
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin is escorted around bombed damaged streets and buildings in Berlin showing the destruction of the city in July...
Group of French boys on an American jeep during a holiday in the Black Forest, southwestern Germany, 1945. The children have been sent by the French...
Procès après la guerre des officiers allemands responsables du camp de concentration de Dachau en 1945 en Allemagne.
Les enfants, survivants juifs des camps nazis accueillent Madame Roosevelt venue leur rendre visite, en Allemagne en 1945.
New blocks of flats in Nagasaki, Japan, circa 1955. The new housing is built on a part of the city destroyed in the atomic bomb attack of 1945.
Germany Berlin Soviet sector: view of the destroyed French embassy at Pariser Platz - undated - Photographer: Martin Badekow - Vintage property of...
Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, flanked by some of the men he led on the first bombing attack of the Japanese mainland on April 18 opens fifth postwar...
German civilians at the railway yards at Bamberg Germany, waiting for trains back to their homes in the Saar region, 13th July 1945.
Communist Spartacist guards on the streets of Berlin, during the uprising which followed Germany's defeat in World War I.
Postwar replica of the 'Little Boy' nuclear weapon, which was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. U.S. Government Photo, circa 1946.
German family in Munchen Gladbach being taken to a shelter on a handcart pulled by their father, following the advance by the US Ninth Army.
In deference to the occupation forces, new signs on a street in the Ginza district are in English, rather than Japanese characters, in Tokyo, Japan,...
Allied officers saluting at a Fourth of July celebration in Berlin, Germany, July 4th 1945. Front row, left to right: General Omar Bradley ; Major...
Overcrowded trains, mostly filled with city folk returning from or going to the countryside to get food, were a common site in post-war Germany. |...
Residents of a shantytown built by the workers of a new Montecatini facility, on a lot set aside by the company , for this purpose, circa 1950. From...
Workers waiting for employment, in the village of Castelmezzano , Italy, 1957. From the exhibition "Olives and bolts - farm laborers and factory...
When the allies captured Naples, Italy, they found a great airplane factory far underground in a series of caves. This is one of the departments of...
Housewives queue at a bakery in Paris during the period of food shortages following World War II, April 1947. Several bakeries have shut down owing...
Doing it 'just like the builders do', a hive of industry going on in the new children's playground opened on the blitz site of St. Luke's Church,...
Miss I Maguire of the Tottenham Food Office distributes ration books to local housewives from a new mobile office, parked on White Hart Lane, London.
The couple of peasants ride their mule followed by three goats that they have driven to pasture, Lucania, Italy, 1957. From the exhibition "Olives...
Farm labourers of the Ferrara area wave cheerfully with their sickles, their way of celebrating the victorious strikes, circa 1955. From the...
Three women walk along bombed damaged streets and buildings showing the destruction of the city in July 1945 following the allied occupation of...
Housewives loading their prams ready to take away the week's coal supply at the Nine Elms depot of the Gas Light and Coke Company in London, 18th...
French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau picks his way through the rubble of a French town towards the end of World War I, 1918. A sign at the end of...
Children watch CARE parcels being unloaded at a warehouse in Berlin, immediately after the lifting of the Berlin blockade, 18th May 1949. CARE stands...
German trade unionist Paul Bebert uses a hammer and chisel to remove a stone swastika from a the facade of an adminstrative building in Hamburg,...
Two young children at a convent in Rome, where they are cared for by nuns. They are part of a group of children, who were abandoned or orphaned...
Germans people experience a perpetual holiday mood of spending and dancing during the period of inflation following Germany's defeat in World War I.
Poverty in the postwar era after World War I October 1919. London October 1919. Mr. Montague Channell and his family who have been evicted from their...
The twin spires of Cologne Cathedral rise above the rubble of postwar Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany, 1949.
Child fills an amphora from the fountain with a hose in Crotone, Italy, 1956. Then the jug is tied to his bicycle for transportation. In that village...
Women working at Brough's, helping to meet the enormous demand for steel drums and containers of all kinds, 10th January 1946.
