If you had to sum up World War II in 5 pictures, what pictures would you use?
Adolf Hitler joins key advisors Heinrich Himmler (left) and Martin Bormann (right) in surveying a strategic map at an unspecified location, 1939.
A Russian BT-2 tank and its crew. The photo was taken in July 1941.
The battle of Tarawa took place between the Americans, the Japanese and the Koreans. 6,400 lives were lost in the battle that raged for three days. This picture of second day’s battle.
A Sudeten woman from the area that is now the Czech Republic salutes the conquering German forces while crying at the fall of her people to the Nazis
Bystanders look on as a boy's burning corpse lies next to the jeep he was in, which was struck by a German V-2 rocket in Antwerp, Belgium on November 27, 1944.
An unidentified boy raises his arms as German soldiers capture Polish Jews during the Warsaw ghetto uprising sometime between April 19 and May 16, 1943.
The atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan by the U.S. on August 9, 1945.
In celebration of Japan's surrender, a U.S. Navy sailor kisses a women during festivities in New York City on August 14, 1945.
U.S. Air Force bombers fly over Ploiești, Romania, following a raid on August 1, 1943.
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