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directly above are the remains of a German 88 mm
directly above are the remains of a German 88 mm

directly above are the remains of a German 88 mm

Date5/8/1943
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Original Toronto Star caption: directly above are the remains of a German 88 mm. all-purpose gun. Both weapons were destroyed in Tunisia.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019399F
Time did not destroy this engine of death, an Axis tank, whose mangled remains strew the desert sands of North Africia, silent testimony to the fall of Italy's empire
Time did not destroy this engine of death, an Axis tank, whose mangled remains strew the desert sands of North Africia, silent testimony to the fall of Italy's empire
7/31/1943
Germans are reminded of their barbarous cruelty in this sign-one of two which mark site of now-destroyed Belsen horror camp. The other is written in German
Germans are reminded of their barbarous cruelty in this sign-one of two which mark site of now-destroyed Belsen horror camp. The other is written in German
6/12/1945
Fugitive German Fliers must free through rocky, bush, barbed wire fences surround the camp on the north shore of Lake Superior from which 28 Germans e(...)
Fugitive German Fliers must free through rocky, bush, barbed wire fences surround the camp on the north shore of Lake Superior from which 28 Germans e(...)
4/19/1941
Berlin's Black Market appears to be doing a rushing business as both German civilians and Allied soldiers throng a street near the old German Reichsta(...)
Berlin's Black Market appears to be doing a rushing business as both German civilians and Allied soldiers throng a street near the old German Reichsta(...)
7/30/1945
No laughing matter, these German civilians agree after they have seen the fantastic barbarism which their fellow Germans inflicted on hundreds of thousands in an orgy of sadism
No laughing matter, these German civilians agree after they have seen the fantastic barbarism which their fellow Germans inflicted on hundreds of thousands in an orgy of sadism
6/8/1945
Charged with transporting five German prisoners of war, Isaac Kathnelson, 35, is shown next to P
Charged with transporting five German prisoners of war, Isaac Kathnelson, 35, is shown next to P
3/8/1946
Life of Riley ended yesterday for nine German prisoners, five arrested in Toronto while heading for a dance and four others in a Cooksville bootlegger(...)
Life of Riley ended yesterday for nine German prisoners, five arrested in Toronto while heading for a dance and four others in a Cooksville bootlegger(...)
3/9/1946
German prisoners bade farewell to Northern Ontario this week after completing pulpwood operations in the Long Lac area
German prisoners bade farewell to Northern Ontario this week after completing pulpwood operations in the Long Lac area
6/11/1946
Matthias Gierens, 37. German railroad worker, weeps as he faces a war criminal court on a charge of shooting a U.S. airman who had bailed out of his plane
Matthias Gierens, 37. German railroad worker, weeps as he faces a war criminal court on a charge of shooting a U.S. airman who had bailed out of his plane
6/8/1945
Thousands of German 'teen-agers, such as these young Nazis who surrendered to the Allies, who were taken during 1945 from their homes in the Soviet oc(...)
Thousands of German 'teen-agers, such as these young Nazis who surrendered to the Allies, who were taken during 1945 from their homes in the Soviet oc(...)
8/12/1946
A group of German prisoners, including a wounded man, left, leave the flaming city under guard of a U
A group of German prisoners, including a wounded man, left, leave the flaming city under guard of a U
10/17/1944
Left behind, A crowd of German prisoners lounge about the yard of a prison camp in the Sudbury area, from which an airman and a naval petty officer es(...)
Left behind, A crowd of German prisoners lounge about the yard of a prison camp in the Sudbury area, from which an airman and a naval petty officer es(...)
8/29/1940