Historical Military Leaders

Images of key military figures from World War II, featuring gatherings and speeches showcasing power, leadership, and the historical context of the era.

Goebbles. July 24, 1933.

Hitler and Mussolini 1937

Adolf Hitler addresses the reichstag on 1st September 1939, just before the invasion of poland

ROME, ITALY: Premier Benito Mussolini (left) views a parade of Italian might with (left to right) his guest Adolf Hitler, King Victor Emmanuel, and Queen Elena, in Rome, 1938.

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) and Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) attend the parade of the Fascist forces in Saint Mark's Square, Venice, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, year LXIV, n 38, September 19, 1937.

Goebbles. July 24, 1933.

Anefo photo collection. Koningin Wilhelmina visits HR warships. Ms. Evertsen and Hr. Ms. Johan Maurits. February 14, 1946

Adolf Hitler meeting with senior Nazis, Germany, August 1944. Artist: Unknown

Adolf Hitler and Robert Ley, head of the German Labour Front, Nuremberg, Germany, 1935. Artist: Unknown

Freiherr von Neurath Took Over The Office Of The Reich Protector -- On 5.4. met Freiherr von Neurath in Prague, to take over to his office as Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Lander. Festive receptions at the Prague Castle, and a rough Parade on the "Wenceslas Square" gave the office a festive Geprage. June 5, 1939.

Anefo photo collection. Practice Nuremberg .. Practice Nuremberg. The Pleet Bench. December 4, 1945. Nuremberg

Anefo photo collection. Practice Nuremberg. December 4, 1945. Nuremberg

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Miss Dorothy Thompson visited Czech troops. Accompanied by Mr. Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, Miss Dorothy Thompson paid a visit to a Czechoslovak Brigade in Britain when she talked to the men and had tea with the officers.L - R: Mr. Jan Masaryk, Miss Thompson and General Miroslav of the Czechoslovak army and other officers. August 25, 1952. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler takes the salute at the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936

Hendaye (France). 10/23/1940. First greeting between Franco and Hitler in their interview in Hendaye as soon as the Head of the Spanish State arrived on French lands.

Nazis march past Hitler at Leipzig. Date: 1933

Anefo photo collection. Official opening NATO headquarters in Brunssum. June 1, 1967. Brunssum

ADOLF HITLER Inspecting troops at the Nuremberg Parteitag in 1935 with Heinrich Himmler Date: 1935

Reichsmarshall herman Goring at an airfield in Germany circa 1934

Confer On Cease-Fire Order In China -- The three man committee appointed to implement the cease-fire order in China, confer at Peiping, China. The committee is trying to extend the cease-fire order to the remote parts of China, where ordinary Means of communication is difficult. Left to Right: Nationalist General Cheng Kai Ming; American Charge D' affairs in China, Walter S. Robertson of Richmond, Va.; and Communist General Yen Chien-Ying. January 28, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Photographic print of Adolf Hitler and other members of the Reich Cabinet, during the Second World War. Dated 20th Century.

Revista por los mandos alemanes de la División Azul en Konigsberg. Alemania, año 1941.

Adolf Hitler 1889-1945. German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party with senior Nazis including Hess, Rust and Schreck 1928

12/31/1939. Heinrich Himmler.

Black and white photo of a demonstration; Hitler as Chancellor and members of his government, including Goebbels and von Papen, in Berlin, 1 May 1933.

Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler discuss Sudeten Crisis, Bad Godesberg, Germany, September 22-24, 1938

Adolf Hitler visiting the occupied city of Laon, France, during World War II, 1940. The photographer is unknown.

German Ambassador to Vichy France, Otto Abetz, delivering a press conference, 15 December 1940. The subject was the transfer of the body of the Emperor Napoleon II from Vienna to Paris, a gift from Hitler to the Vichy regime. On the left is Fernand de Brinon, a leading French collaborator during the Nazi occupation who was tried as a war criminal by the French after the liberation and executed in 1947. The photographer is unknown.

Anefo photo collection. Practice Nuremberg. December 4, 1945. Nuremberg

Fuhrer Ernst Thalmann (left), Vice-Chairman Willi Leow (right) of the German Communist Party (KPD) marching in their preisential election campaign, 1932

The War On The Eastern Front: Searching The Inhabitants Of Gdynia For Arms -- German troops searching the inhabitants of Gdynia for arms after they had entered the Polish PIR on the Baltic. September 26, 1939. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Nuremberg Rally, 7th Party Congress, the 'Rally of Freedom', Germany, 1935. Artist: Unknown

Anefo photo collection. Practice Nuremberg. December 4, 1945. Nuremberg

Germany: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov talking with Gustav Hilger (centre) and Adolf Hitler, Berlin, November 1940

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Big Three In Happy Mood - This camera study of prime minister Clement R. Attlee, President Harry S. Truman and Premier Joseph Stalin (left to right) in happy mood was made during the closing days of the Potsdam conference. Russian Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav M. Molotov is just to right to Truman. The Big three on August 2 announced Results of the conference. August 2, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Volksturm and Civil Services Captured Girl among Prisoners : Volksturm, fire brigade, air raid wardens etc, being marched through the street of Hamborn (suburb of Duisburg). A girl was among the prisoners. May 29, 1945. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Wojciech Jaruzelski born 1923former Commander-in-chief of the communist Polish People's Army and the chairman of the Polish United Workers Party from 1981 to 1989, head of state from 1985 to 1990.

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Adolf Hitler, Berghof

Adolf Hitler 1889-1945. German politician with his deputy Rudolf Hess.

Anefo photo collection. Practice Nuremberg. December 4, 1945. Nuremberg

Photographic print of Austrian civilians standing behind an S.S. trooper during Germany Occupation of Austria, during the Second World War. Dated 20th Century

Peace Conference, Munich, Septemebr 1838: Left to right: Neville Chamberlain (Britain) Edouard Daladier (France) Adolph Hitler (Germany) Benito Mussolini (Italy) and Count Ciano (Italy)

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Opening RadioStudio v.H. Armed forces program in Padang; Visit Admiral Pinke to Studio. Pdang. At the festive opening we noticed O.A. On: Mrs Sluyter, wife of the CDT. U-brigade, the c.m.z. Vice-Admiral A.s. Pinke, the H.T.B. from Padang, Dr. L. van Streets and the mayor of Padang, Dr. Hakim (in the second row on the right) .. November 8, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Padang, Sumatra

Cemal Gürsel (1895-1966), Turkish army officer, and the fourth President of Turkey 1960-1966

Austrian crowds show emotion and anticipation as German forces enter Vienna during the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria, into Nazi Germany, in March 1938. Dated 20th Century

Benito Mussolini (1883 28 April 1945) Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party addresses a rally 1933

Emperor Hirohito, his royal party, and some American soldiers tour the bomb-wrecked Showa Electric Industry Co. 1946, Japan. - (BSLOC_2014_15_138)

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

The 'Big Three' leaders of the Allies fighting against the Axis nations of World War 2. L-R: Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman, and Winston Churchill. July 18, 1945. - (BSLOC_2014_15_24)

China: Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, wearing Red Guard uniform and sporting a Red Guard armband, gives the Communist International salute at a Cultural Revolution rally in Hebei, 1966

Nazi soldiers of the German Labor Front, 1936

Portrait of Italian general and Prefect Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa shouting authoritatively. Italy, 1980s

Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld inspects Dutch domestic armed forces on Dam Square on his birthday on June 29, 1945, 1945 photograph Amsterdam photographic support Dam

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Collaborator Taken In Ton: A French gendarme takes a firm hold on the hair of a German collaborator and tows him to a police station in Rennes after liberation of the capital of Brittany by American troops. June 8, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945) showing three leaders at the Tehran Conference: Soviet leader Josef Stalin (1878-1953), US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965).

Germans Hanged For Killing U.S. Files -- two German civilians stand on the gallows at Bruchsal Prison, Germany awaiting execution for the murder of six American fliers who parachuted from a disabled plane in 1944. In all five Germans were executed for the same crime. At the right, Johann Seipel. The first to be hanged, has hood and noose placed over his head before the trap is sprung. At the left, Johann Opper, second to die, hears order for his execution read. November 21, 1945. (Photo by AP Wi

Colour photograph of the automobile engineer and designer Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951) presents Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) with a model car during celebrations for Hitler's 50th birthday, Berin Photographed by Hugo Jaeger. Dated 1939

Anefo photo collection. Old KNIL soldiers get a floral help in Binnenhof. September 5, 1978. The Hague, South Holland

Adolf Hitler delivering a speech, March 1936. Artist: Unknown

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

"About Turn, Mr. Smertenko!" - Professor Johan Smertenko has a strong guard of police as he walks out to the aircraft which took him back to France from Croydon Airport this morning (Thursday). Professor Johan Smertenko, vice-president of the American League for a Free Palestine, who, in defiance of a Home Office order forbidding him to enter Britain, landed at Croydon in a private French aircraft yesterday, returned to France by the same means this morning (Thursday). He had been held at nearby Wallington police station overnight alter Having spent so long on the telephone yesterday afternoon that it became too dark for him to fly back. January 16, 1947.

Wehrmacht soldiers sitting at the table. Wehrmacht soldiers sitting on a wooden table. Behind them hangs a swastiklag flag. On the table are vases with flowers and ashtrays.

Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) French General and first President of The Fifth Republic. General de Gaulle with members of the Government in exile in Algeria in November 1943 during World War II. Photograph.

Photograph of José Millán Astray (1879-1954) a Spanish soldier, founder and first commander of the Spanish Foreign Legion. Dated 20th Century

Anefo photo collection. 25 year anniversary CDAK / Middelburg / Draw transfer. December 1, 1949. Middelburg, Zeeland

Spanish Civil War: González Peña with the socialist leaders of Badajoz

Portrait Adolph Hitler In Uniform Hat Mustache Swastika Pin World War Ii Der Fuhrer Nazi Fascist Dictator German Genocide

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

King Paul Presents New Trophy - Left to right at the presentation ceremony: Queen Frederika, King Paul, Major H.A. Whitehead, RA (of the British Military Mission to Greece), Prince George of Greece (uncle of King Paul) and Princess Nicholas (Mother of the Duchess of Kent).King Paul of Greece presented a shield to be competed for in future Athletic contests competed for in future Athletic contests between British, Australian and New Zealand Forces, in a ceremony at the Royal Palace in Athens, April 24.The shield bears an impression of St. George, Patron Saint of both England and Greece.The King, in presenting the shield, said that he hoped it would remind all of the shield carried in battle at the side of their true friend, the Greek Soldier. May 8, 1952. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

12/31/1958. Toledo.- In the Toledo cemetery, 134 bodies of those who fell in the city's Civil War and during the siege of the Alcazar have been exhumed, to be taken to Cuelga Muros. Bishop Doctor Miranda officiated at the event and the authorities of Toledo, relatives of the fallen and public figures attended.

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Semyon Budyonny, the Marshal. In the words of one of his officers, 'A man with a huge moustache and a very little brain'.

Dr. Goebbels SpeaksAccording to the German caption, accompanying this photo, Dr. Joseph Goebbels addresses the Berlin home guard from the balcony of his Ministry, after the Nazis had taken their service oath. Photo obtained through a neutral source. June 2, 1945. (Photo by Acme).

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

1934 (Ca.). Major General Amadeo Balmes.

Joaquín Fanjul Goñi (1880 - 1936) 1880 - Madrid, 17 August 1936) was a Spanish soldier who conspired and rebelled against the Second Spanish Republic and, therefore, after the assault and seizure of headquarters mountain Madrid he commanded, was arrested, tried and executed.

The King, With Princess Elizabeth And Lieutenant Mountbatten at Serving of Remembrance in London. A general view of the scone at the Cenotaph with Princess Elizabeth, the King, and Lieutenant Philip, and monitors of the Cabinet at left. The King, who was accompanied by Princess Elizabeth and ***** Philip Mountbatten - who are to be married in Westminster A 20th November - attended the annual Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph, Britain's shrine to her war dead of two world wars, in Whitehall, London, where they laid wreaths at the foot of the memorial. November 9, 1947.

The Duke of Gloucester listening to the reading of his commission during the swearing-in ceremony in Parliament House, Canberra, yesterday. In the group, from left to right, are (seated) the chief justice, Sir John Latham, Mrs. Curtin, the Duke and Duchess, the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin. Back row : Mr. Ian Emerton (Usher of the black rod), and Captain Wynter, Major Hawkins, Brigadier Schreiber, Lieutenant Commander Robertson, Captain Ramsay, members of the Duke's personal staff. January 31, 1945.

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