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Japan, which joined Germany in the Anti'-Comintern Pact of 1936, which was
directed against the Soviet Union, was outraged when Hitler signed a
nonaggression pact with Stalin. However, in September 1940, Japan joined with
Germany and Italy in the Tripartite Pact that crealed the Axis Powers. -
After the Germans conquered Poland, they began a systematic destruction of Polish
intellectuals and the ruling classes, and by the end of World War I had killed a total
of three million Poles -
For "Operation Barbarossa," their campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans
assembled the largest invasion force in history, totaling almost 150 divisions (or
about three million men), 3,000 tanks, 7,000 artillery pieces, and 2,500 aircraft In
addition, more than 30 divisions of Finnish and Romanian troops supported this
massive German force. -
More about the image: In November 1937, people in Shanghal watch their city bum
following Japanese bombardment. By late December, the city had fallen. -
More about the image: Participating in "Operation Overlord," the Allied invasion of
northem France, U.S. troops leave landing craft and wade ashore at Omaha Beach
on D-Day, June 6 1944. -
Austrian 99 chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner oversaw the Nazi concentration camps
throughout Europe. Captured by a U.S. patrol shortly after the German surrender,
he was indicted on August 29, 1945 by the international military tribunal at
Nuremberg on charges of war crimes. Here Katlenbrunner is shown addressing the
court during his trial. He was found guilty of crimes against humanity and executed
on October 16, 1946.