On 25 August 1944, the US Central Intelligence Agency services take this aerial photo of the Nazi extermination camp in Birkenau, Poland, showing a group of prisoners on their way to the gas chambers.

Aerial photograph taken on 25 August 1944 of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, the largest of the Nazi concentration camp complexes.

‘It wasn't us, Guv!' In April 1961, Fritz Behrendt, German cartoonist, denounces the defence put forward by Karl Adolf Eichmann — former Nazi Head of the Department for Jewish Affairs in the Reich Central Security Office (RHSA) and architect of the Final Solution during the Second World War — when tried for crimes against humanity before the court in Jerusalem.

On 30 October 1945, the French daily newspaper Le Monde describes the scenes of desolation at German railway stations that have been partly destroyed by the Allied bombings.

In February 1947, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) paints a bleak picture of the situation of displaced persons accommodated in assembly centres in the British, American and French occupation zones in Germany.

On 19 November 1946, the Bavarian daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung paints a catastrophic picture of the humanitarian situation in devastated Germany and launches an appeal for Christian charity.

‘Home to the Reich …' On 28 February 1946, illustrating the terrible human consequences of the Second World War, cartoonist Mirko Szewczuk employs the expression used in Nazi propaganda, Heim ins Reich, in ironic fashion to illustrate the mass exodus of German refugees fleeing the Soviet army towards the Western zones of occupation in Germany.

On 5 July 1945, the US War Department issues an alarming report on the situation of refugees in Europe and Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War and describes the measures taken by the Allies to help displaced persons.

Poster published by the National Federation of Deported and Imprisoned Resistance Fighters and Patriots (FNDIRP) in 1945 in response to the war and deportation.