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50 Years After Breaking the Codes: Interviews with Two of the Bletchley Park Scientists

An article documenting oral interviews conducted in 1991 with I. Jack Good and Donald Michie, two participants in the World War II code-breaking…

Hassenzahl served in a parachute division of the US infantry. He was there during D-day and served in Operation Market Garden, the allied military…

American Legion memorial to WWII dead, Ritzville, Washington, December 9, 1945

On a stage is the Legion Memorial to World War II dead with three white crosses and a small flag within a roped off display. Pictured is 1 woman…

Growing up in Germany in the 1930’s, Gert Schmitz was drafted into the Hitler Youth, witnessed the start of World War II, and joined the Luftwaffe by…

Turing's Treatise on the Enigma - A Photographic Copy of a Paper Prepared in GCCS, written ca. 1939-1942

A declassified internal manual written by Alan Turing and other codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the war. It gives a detailed breakdown of how…

WAVE Demonstrating Bombe

A historical photograph showing a U.S. Navy WAVE demonstrating the operation of a Bombe machine, the electromechanical device used to decrypt Enigma…

A badly damaged shop in Eindhoven.

In liberated Eindhoven (Holland).
A badly damaged shop in Eindhoven.

Dolk's vishandel.
Herring processer shop after the bombing in 19 september…

Liberation of Stratumseind

Allie tank driving over het Stratumseind in Eindhoven

Aerial View of the Ruins of Rotterdam

This black-and-white aerial photograph shows the ruins of Rotterdam after the German bombing of the city in May 1940. The image documents the…

Der Bolschewismus: Grosse antibolschewistische Schau Karlsruhe

Nazi anti-communist propaganda poster advertising a large anti-Bolshevik exhibition in Karlsruhe, Germany. The poster shows a large red spider…