Semester Два, Blog Nine - WW2 Imagery

WW2 War Photograph

 

• Was taken from between 1941 to 1945, from the book The War: An Intimate History. Photographer unknown, two soldiers unknown.
• This image really stood out to me. It really shows the destruction that war causes: these two soldiers on their own, taking cover behind a tank-- surrounded by a completely destroyed city.

WW2 War Propaganda

• 1944 Nazi propaganda against the US. Other info unknown.
• Very symbolic propaganda against the US. They perceive USA to be this enormous, greedy, overly-patriotic, destructive, self absorbed monster. At the top in capital letters it says, "LIBERATORS" in bright red, basically saying these so called American saviors are actually horrible and annihilative monsters. It's black and white other than the red letters, the red on the flag, and the red on the missile-- not a very positive color scheme.

 The Allied Powers

• "The Big Three in Portico of the Soviet Legation, Tehran" This is at the Tehran Conference of 1943 (Codename Eureka)
• This picture is of the three major allies leaders of WW2: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. They all met at this meeting to discuss the war, and this was the first time Stalin was present. I like this picture as it shows how the Allies worked together to fight this war and make sure that they planned everything out in order to win.