History of Sorts

Compassion During WW2

Even amidst the Horrors of WWII there was still some time for compassion.

A wounded Australian soldier being helped by a local during World War II. (Papua New Guinea, 1942)

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A Ukrainian woman, giving water to a captured Soviet soldier. (Ukraine, 1941)

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A soldier sharing his food and water with children. (Saipan, 1944)

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American soldiers, treating a wounded dog during World War II. (Guam, 1944)

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A Dutch woman entering military captivity with her husband, a German soldier, 1944

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American soldiers at the village fountain talking with a young woman, two children watch the scene in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy.

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Soviet soldier in the liberated village, 1941

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A Muslim woman protects a Jewish woman by covering her Star of David with her veil.

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Dutch girls escorting American soldiers to a dance.

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German soldier giving bread to an orphaned Russian boy, 1942

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3 responses to “Compassion During WW2”

  1. danielbitran Avatar
    danielbitran

    I appreciate your posts a great deal and have learned a great deal from them. I would very much like to share some of these photos with my students, but I hesitate to do so without any additional information about their source. Can you provide sources for these photos so that they can be authenticated apropos their stated content?

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      dirkdeklein

      Hi Daniel, I am glad you like my posts. The photos are all freely available on the net, I use several resources for them. For this article I used websites like rarehistoricalphotos.com , boredpanda.com and mens-den.com but also wikipedia.

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    dirkdeklein

    Reblogged this on History of Sorts.

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