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German civilians stand by to watch as a Russian Army infantry as it marches into Weissenfels, Germany, July 14, 1945 to take over territory by America...

Russian soldiers with consumption were kept in a room of this type at the Nazi Prison camp on July 7, 1945 at Dossel, Germany, which was captured by u...

Russian tanks move in to relieve U.S. Seventh Army troops within Allied Territorial boundaries on July 6, 1945 in Leipzig, Germany. (AP Photo)

Marshal Gregory Zhukov, Deputy Supreme Soviet Commander; Gen. Dwight D. Eisnhower and Field Marshal Sir Bernard L.Montgomery dine together during the...

Actor Peter Lorre , left, enjoys an evening at Hollywood Ciro's with his bride of one month, Viennese actress Kaaren Verne June 17, 1945. (AP Photo)

Tommy (Rocky) Graziano, right, Brooklyn welterweight aims a right at welterweight champion Freddie

An American Soldier studies various paintings, one of them resting in a wash basin, May 29, 1945 in Germany. The paintings were part of the loot gathe...

Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson, seated center, commander of the U.S. 9th army celebrated the end of the European was as a guest of Russian Col. Gen. Svia...

Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson of the U.S. Ninth Army smiles broadly and waves his arms as he is tossed in the air by Russian officers at a banquet in hi...

New editors visit Buchenwald concentration camp at Thuringia, Germany, May 16, 1945. (AP Photo)

New editors visit Buchenwald concentration camp at Thuringia, Germany, May 16, 1945. (AP Photo)

Russian choir singing the Star Spangled Banner in English for guests at a banquet given for Gen. Omar Bradley on May 15, 1945. (AP Photo/William C. Al...

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hung by his heels in April 29,1945 at a petrol station for public viewing and confirmation of his demise. Mussolin...

A British Royal Marine commando, center, disarms one of the German guards of prison ship in Bremmerhaven from which 1871 Russian prisoners of war were...

When the second British Army took the Prison camp at Westertinke near Bremen, which had been the only naval prison camp on May 8, 1945 in Germany, the...

Pfc. Clarence K. Ayers of Evansville, Ind., reads the news of V-E Day as newly arrived German prisoners stand of a New York City pier, May 8, 1945. (...

Sam Paranka of Ohio, left, helps Russian girl Karina Galeizevna Gaifudinova to adjust her arm band May 8, 1945. (AP Photo/William C Allen)

Orie Dekker of Passaic, N.J. gives a lesson to a Russian soldier during link up between first Army troops and Red Army men in town of Torgau 75 miles...

The historic official meeting between U.S. First Army and Russian Army officers on East Bank of Elbe River, Togau, Germany on April, 1945. The flag of...

Sgt. Andrew Marriock, left, of Hudson, N.Y., and Capt. Cahrles W. Burtgh, second from left, of Sickville, PA, strikes up a conversation with two Russi...

American soldiers view in horror a pile of emaciated bodies of concentration camp victims left in the Buchenwald camp after German guards retreated, A...

A group of American, Russian Army officers and war correspondents are shown toasting each other as they celebrated the meeting of the U.S. and Communi...

Maj. Gen. Emil F. Reinhardt, second from left, commanding officer of 69th Division, U.S. First Army shaking hands with Russian commander of First Ukra...

Russian soldier, in his late teens, lost both legs while defending the Western border of Russia is seen April 25, 1945. For past two years and a half...

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, third from left, front, and a group of high ranking U.S. Army officers look over the charred bodi...

Allied soldiers look at the vast expanse of grave plots on April 18,1945 near Eselheide, Germany, where 30,000 Russian prisoners of war are buried. Th...

Russian prisoners of war who were freed by the Americans watch a truckload of German prisoners pass along the Autobahn on the US first Army front Apri...

Russian prisoners peep through the barbed wire fence which separated them from prisoners of other nationalities at a German prison camp on April 4, 19...

An attack on one of the caves connected to a three-tier blockhouse destroys the structure on the edge of Turkey Nob, giving a clear view of the beachh...

A weary U.S. Marine, takes a catnap during a lull in the fighting on Iwo Jima, March 9, 1945. Note how he holds his sheath knife, alert even in slee...

Lieut. Ben Hogan of U.S. Army Air Forces will have to 'pack six months' practice into two days, to play in the Four Ball Tournament starting on March...

Author, Poet Alfred Noyes shown on March 6,1945 in New York. (AP Photo)

Threse American soldiers perform the paternal chore of taking Dutch children for walks on Feb. 23, 1945 in Holland. (AP Photo)

This is Iwo Jima on D-Day, Feb. 19, 1945. Fifth Division Marines fight their way up the sandy slope from the beach under mortar fire, with Mount Suri...

This statue of a female U.S. Marine, seen Feb. 15, 1945, in downtown Canal Street in New Orleans, and dedicated to women in all braches of the armed s...

Vice President Harry S. Truman plays the piano as the new movie star Lauren Bacall, perched on top, looks on, during her appearance at the National Pr...

Vice President Harry S. Truman plays the piano as the new movie star Lauren Bacall, perched on top, looks on, during her appearance at the National Pr...

Actress Ida Lupino enjoys a big hug and kiss from Groucho Marx backstage of the CBS Vine Street Theater on Jan. 30,1945 in Hollywood where they perfor...

Guests sit on surreys to take them to Central Park's restaurant

Two American soldiers of the 3rd Armored Division advance on the run around a shell-damaged and smoking house as they go forward under enemy fire on J...

German prisoners captured in the woods north of Foy, Belgium, during General Patton's advance on Houffalize, are marched back to the rear. After of da...

Boar painted 20,000 years ago in Spain by cavemen to Indicate motion shown on Jan. 24, 1945. (AP Photo)

This photo was taken when tanks of a U.S. Armored division had taken Samree. It shows the tanks on the move, just outside the town, January 23, 1945 i...

Prehistoric paintings found on Nov.22, 1950 in a Cavern Near Montignac at France. A happening of some 30,000 years ago is shown in this painting found...

The Lally twins, Joan and Janet, make a charming addition to the cast which appears in

A column of First Army Americans moves through the snow covered countryside near Fosse, about five miles southwest of Stavelot in Belgium, Jan. 20, 19...

A wounded man is placed on a stretcher for removal to first aid station in the snow-covered Belgian town of Laroche, Jan. 19, 1945, after the Germans...

Smoke and fog combined to shut out the sky at 1 p.m. in Chicago's Loop January 7, 1945. This picture was taken at State and Randolph streets. Blacko...

Low flying C-47 transport planes roar overhead as they carry supplies to the besieged American Forces battling the Germans at Bastogne, during the ene...

American tank destroyers wait on the snowy slopes of the Bastogne area picture show on Jan. 6,1945 in Bastogne,Belgium, ready to advance toward German...