Standing over the body of a dead German soldier, the jubilant citizens of Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, greet their American liberators in May 1945. After nearly seven years of German occupation, some of these Czechs seem to have forgotten that the Nazi salute is no longer necessary.
Photo: National Archives
Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
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