Authors: Ian Buruma
A woman being tarred for collaboration in Amsterdam
Delousing an inmate at Bergen-Belsen
Starved POWs at a Japanese camp in Malaya
The British Army setting fire to the last hut at Bergen-Belsen
Taking a break from clearing rubble in Berlin
Refugee children in Berlin
A Japanese man in the ruins of his home in Yokohama
Greek women mourning the dead
(Associated Press)
A German army general is tied to the stake before his execution in Italy.
(Associated Press)
German POWs tend to American graves near Omaha Beach in Normandy.
(Associated Press/Peter J. Carroll)
German children walking into school in Aachen
General Yamashita is sworn in at his trial in Manila.
General de Gaulle in Lorient, a former U-boat base in France that was badly damaged by Allied bombs
(AFP/Getty Images)
Laval testifying in Paris at the trial of Marshal Pétain (seated, right, behind Laval)