Saving Civilians
Despite the constant brainwashing of Japanese citizens about the cruelty of American soldiers, this woman accepts an American soldier’s help. The Japanese emperor ordered citizens to kill themselves before falling into the hands of the Americans, who were ‘rapists’ and ‘murderers’ according to his propaganda campaign.
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Reversing The Roles
This powerful image shows the start of one man’s hell at the end of another’s. A Jewish man points a rifle at a surrendered German guard at the death camp he was being held captive. Allied troops liberated these death and concentration camps, but even after their liberation, many inmates still died of disease and malnutrition.