Tag: Hitler Youth

• The Liberation of Broglie, France: A Triumph of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division

  

  Guest Post by M. Raoul Boyer Video Description: The machine-gunner/assistant driver of a Sherman tank belonging to the 22nd Armoured Regiment (The Canadian Grenadier Guards) is given a glass of wine to drink by a Frenchwoman during a pause in the advance. FFI volunteers and townspeople gather in small groups in the rain to greet…

  September 12, 2025

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• The Face of Defeat: The Story Behind Hans-Georg Henke’s Heartbreaking Photos

  

  The haunting photographs of Hans-Georg Henke, a sixteen-year-old German anti-aircraft soldier captured in Hessen, Germany, remain some of the most powerful images from World War II. Taken by American photojournalist John Florea in April 1945, these photos depict Henke in a moment of profound despair, his face contorted in grief and exhaustion. Over the years,…

  May 11, 2025

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  1940s, 1945, Destruction of Berlin, event & history, Historical Photos, History Daily, History Daily With Francis Chappell Black, Hitler Youth, Nazi Germany, photography, The Battle of Berlin, World War II