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76. "Hitler accepts the ovation of the Reichstag after announcing the `peaceful' acquisition of Austria. It set the stage to annex the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland, largely inhabited by a German- speaking population." Berlin, March 1938. 208-N-39843. (ww2_76.jpg)
77. German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland. PK Hugo J.ger, September 1939. 200-SFF-52. (ww2_77.jpg)
78. "The tragedy of this Sudeten woman, unable to conceal her misery as she dutifully salutes the triumphant Hitler, is the tragedy of the silent millions who have been `won over' to Hitlerism by the `everlasting use' of ruthless force." Ca. 1938. 208-PP-10A-2. (ww2_78.jpg)
79. Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov signs the German-Soviet nonaggression pact; Joachim von Ribbentrop and Josef Stalin stand behind him. Moscow, August 23. 1939. 242-JRPE-44. (ww2_79.jpg)
80. British prisoners at Dunkerque, France, June 1940. 242-EB-7-35. (ww2_80.jpg)
81. "A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France." 208-PP-10A-3. (ww2_81.jpg)
82. Adolf Hitler in Paris, June 23, 1940. 242-HLB-5073-20. (ww2_82.jpg)
83. German troops in Russia, 1941. 242-GAP-286B-4. (ww2_83.jpg)
Images on this page courtesy of U.S. National Archives.
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