The Snapshots in Time Collection
American Soldier at Barbed-Wire Compound with Russian-Language Signage, End of War in Europe, 1945
A heavily damaged photograph from the final weeks of World War II in Europe shows an American soldier near a barbed-wire compound bearing Russian-language signage. Such encounters were common as American and Soviet forces converged across a collapsing Germany in the spring of 1945. Project: 218247