Powerful colour pictures that show the resilience of the British spirit throughout The Blitz have emerged to mark the 70th anniversary of Winston Churchill's 'V for Victory' campaign.

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An American M4A1 (76mm) Sherman tank of the 14th Armoured Division moves past a roadside littered with debris from the retreating German forces near, Silz, Germany, 23 March 1945.

World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. Rising to power in an unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler’s invasion of Poland drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, and World War II had begun. The majority of the world's countries eventually formed two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

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7th April 1945. The Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine in Cologne in ruins at the end of World War II.

Bombed bus, London, 1940.

A American soldier inspecting a Panther turret mounted in a fixed position on a West Berlin Street as British vehicles pass by

Battle for Berlin in April, 1945.

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Berlin 1945 | 2015 > Die Bilder des Ingenieurs und Stadtplaners Cecil Newman, der als alliierter Offizier ein Jahr lang im Berlin der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit fotografierte, zeigen drastisch, welche Folgen der Zweiten Weltkrieg für die Hauptstadt des „Dritten Reiches“ hatte. Heute sind von diesen Zerstörungen im Stadtbild kaum noch Spuren zu erkennen. Aus Anlass der Ausstellung Berlin 1945/46. Fotografien von Cecil F. S. Newman im Märkischen Museum hat der Berliner Fotograf Jochen…