At the end of the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, the US Marine Corps killed the remaining Japanese soldiers by sweeping them up on March 16, 1945. They looked down on the scattered bodies of the dead Japanese soldiers with caution.

     At the end of the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, the US Marine Corps killed the remaining Japanese soldiers by sweeping them up on March 16th, 1945. They looked down on the scattered bodies of the Japanese soldiers, keeping a watchful eye on the area. The US Marines continued to sweep the rough terrain in the northwestern part of Iwo Jima throughout the day, sealing off many caves in the battle zone and suffering only a few injuries. After patrolling the battle area and ensuring that there were no encounters with the Japanese army, they secured the operational area and began preparing for nighttime positions.

    When the Japanese army decided to make their final suicide attack, they came out onto the ground shouting “Banzai!” and brandishing their weapons. As the end of the battle drew near, the Japanese soldiers were determined to kill American soldiers until they themselves died. No Japanese soldier wanted to die, even as the battle drew to a close, and like gladiators, they were fated to fight to the death, whether they liked it or not. To survive the final predicament of the Battle of Iwo Jima, all Japanese soldiers, without exception, fell to their deaths in a fierce show of loyalty to the Emperor.

     American soldiers found themselves in the inhospitable terrain of Iwo Jima. Japanese soldiers were hiding in the many mouths of rocks and caves. The time-consuming and frightening process of clearing open caves, crevices and suspicious holes soon led to deadly combat. The sound of Japanese rifle fire suddenly rang out, and the explosions of grenades echoed off the rocks. Once they found the cave entrance, they quickly arranged for covering fire and continued their fierce and desperate assault under the pain of their wounds and the explosions of grenades. The intensity of the American attack easily killed the surviving Japanese soldiers.

On the Eastern Front during World War II, Soviet Jews were murdered by the mobile killing units of the SS that accompanied the German army. Vinnytsia was occupied by the German army on July 19, 1941, and the Jews dug their own graves with their bare hands.

 　On the Eastern Front of World War II, Soviet Jews were killed by the mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) of the SS that accompanied the German army front. They were usually massacred by a group shooting on the spot. In Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, which was occupied by the German army on July 19, 1941, Jewish victims dug their own graves with their bare hands.

　Vinnytsia was occupied by the Germans. There were more than 34,000 Jews in Vinnytsia. Only 17,000 of them survived, the rest having evacuated to the interior of the Soviet Union before the German occupation. Virtually all of the Jews who remained in Vinnytsia under Nazi Germany were killed in the Holocaust. Nazi Germany's atrocities were carried out in Vinnytsia and the surrounding area by Einsatzgruppen.

　On June 22, 1941, the German invasion of the Soviet Union began, and under the pretext of war, Germany shifted from the forced migration and imprisonment of Jews to genocide. The Einsatzgruppen, which were made up of Nazi SS troops and police, quickly accompanied the invading German army. Their mission was to kill the Jews they found in the occupied Soviet territories. Some of the inhabitants of the occupied territories, mainly Ukrainians, Latvians and Lithuanians, assisted the German mobile killing units as auxiliary police.

　The mobile killing units acted quickly, entering towns and cities and rounding up all the Jewish men, women and children. They also took away many Communist Party leaders and Roma (gypsies). The victims were forced to give up all their valuables, and their clothes were taken away. The clothes were later sent to Germany and distributed to local collaborators. The members of the murder squads then forced the victims to go to a square, forest or ravine on the outskirts of the town or city where they had been conquered. There they shot the victims or gassed them to death in a gas van, and dumped the bodies in mass graves.

In the early morning of February 13th 1991, a precision-guided bomb from the Allied forces hit a bunker in Amiriya, Baghdad. The graphic images of charred bodies being carried out of the building were broadcast, and Iraq reported that over 300 people, mainly women and children, had died.

 　　On February 13th 1991, the thick concrete roof of an air-raid shelter in the Amiriya district was blown off like butter. The American government claimed that it was being used as a military command post, while the Iraqis denied this, saying that it was for civilian use only. This bombing, which killed over 300 people, caused widespread shock. Reporters were taken to a hospital in Baghdad, where they took photographs of the many bodies that had been brought there. No evidence was found that there were any soldiers in the bunker, but the clothing of the dead had been burnt away, so it was impossible to confirm this.

　　In the early hours of February 13th 1991, a precision-guided bomb from the coalition forces hit the Amiriya bunker in Baghdad. Television stations broadcast graphic images of charred bodies being carried out of the building. Iraq reported that over 300 people, mainly women and children, had been killed. The bunker was originally built as an air raid shelter during the Iran-Iraq War and later converted into a military command and control center. In 1991, it was used as a military communications center complete with barbed wire, camouflage and armed guards. Selected civilians entered the top floor at night, while the Iraqi military continued to use the lower floors as a command and control center. All Iraqi military bunkers were also designated to house civilians.

　　After the attack, the US defended the targeting of the Amiriya bunker, claiming it was a military command center. The US military found it difficult to distinguish between people in military uniforms and civilians using intelligence-gathering satellites alone. In a report several months after the attack, Human Rights Watch concluded that the coalition forces had failed in their duty to use means and methods of attack that minimized the possibility of civilian casualties. After the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, the coalition forces closed off the bomb site and the photos of the victims in the underground bunker were not made public.

During the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front of World War II, a German 88mm artillery shell hit a Russian supply vehicle, killing the Russian soldiers who were carrying bread and other supplies.

     During the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front of World War II, a German 88mm artillery shell hit a Russian supply vehicle, killing the Russian soldier inside. Walter Huckle titled his snapshot “Dead and Bread Loaded”.

    In August 1942, the soldiers of the 62nd Army of the Soviet Red Army, who had retreated to Stalingrad, placed skeletons on the road to greet the German soldiers. They collected the skeletons, who were saluting from the Kerson school, by the roadside. The German Wehrmacht soldiers, who had marched into Stalingrad, thought this was a joke and enjoyed it. However, in the end, the skeletons were not a joke at all, and the Battle of Stalingrad had begun.

    The Battle of Stalingrad, which lasted from July 17th 1942 to February 2nd 1943, was one of the most decisive battles of the Eastern Front in World War II. The Soviet army inflicted a devastating defeat on the German army in the strategic city and surrounding area along the Volga River named after the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In the summer of 1942, Hitler launched a major offensive into southern Russia. He intended to destroy the remnants of the Soviet army and ultimately occupy the oil fields of the Caucasus. The initial advance went well, and the German 6th Army was ordered to capture the city. Stalin demanded that it be defended at all costs, and every soldier and civilian was mobilized.

     Stalingrad was bombed heavily by the German air force, and the ruins became the stage for fierce urban warfare that lasted for months. By October 1942, most of the city had fallen into German hands, but the Russian army was holding on to the banks of the Volga River, where they had transported important stockpiles. Meanwhile, the Soviet army reinforced its forces on both sides of Stalingrad and, in November 1942, launched a large-scale attack to surround and trap the German army. The 6th Army, which had been forbidden by Hitler to retreat, held out until the exhausted remnants surrendered on February 2, 1943. The German army lost a total of 500,000 soldiers, including 91,000 prisoners of war, in the Battle of Stalingrad. The Soviet army lost 674,990 soldiers killed in action and 672,224 wounded in action, bringing the total number of dead to around 500,000.

The brothers Carlo Rosselli (Above) and Nello Rosselli (Below), murdered by the henchmen of the C.S.A.R. at June 9, 1937. This was the case of the Rosselli brothers, Italian anti-fascist militants, who were cowardly shot in the woods.

1937年6月9日に、カルロ・ロッセリとその弟ネッロは、イタリアのファシストの命令により、フランスの極右運動「ラ・カグール」によって、フランスのノルマンディの田舎道で殺害された。陰謀が発覚する前、フィリオルとマーティン医師に率いられたカグール党の暴漢たちは、気に入らない相手を喜んで殺害した。イタリアの反ファシスト活動家であるロッセリ兄弟もその犠牲者であり、卑劣にも森の中で銃殺された。彼らの車を停めれた時に、兄カルロは何度も刺された。弟ネッロも刺されたが、抵抗して犯人はネッロを射殺した。1937年に、ムッソリーニの命令でフランスで暗殺されたとき、兄弟の葬列は20万人もの人々に見守られペール・ラシェーズ墓地に向かった。

　兄弟がムッソリーニに対して抵抗を起こす起点は、1925年1月に、社会主義者の代議士ジャコモ・マッテオッティが暗殺された事件を起点に、兄弟らは最初の反ファシスト新聞の一つである『ノン・モラーレ(あきらめるな)』を創刊した。この新聞が弾圧された後に、1926年に、カルロはピエトロ・ネンニとともに第二の反ファシスト雑誌『イル・クァルト・スタート』を創刊した。1929年、カルロらは、反ファシスト組織であるジュスティツィア・エ・リベルタを設立した。

 1930年代初頭に、マルクス主義者のアントニオ・グラムシが投獄され、他の反ファシストの指導者たちが殺害され、イタリア全土がファシストの支配下に置かれた。逮捕を予期したカルロは、弟のネロとともにフランスに逃れた。1936年11月にバルセロナラジオで有名な演説で、カルロ・ロッセッリは、ヨーロッパの反ファシズムで最もカリスマ的影響力のある一人だった。

暗殺されたカルロ・ロッセリ (兄)

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Medical Records of Atomic Bomb Victims: T. Mitake, showing keloids on the back and arms caused by the Atomic Bomb dropped in Hiroshima, Japan.

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On February 1st 2025, Ukrainian rescue workers spent the night rescuing 22 people from the rubble and carrying out the dead on stretchers after a Russian missile attack on a residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava.

     On February 1st 2025, Ukrainian rescue workers discovered another body at the site of the Russian missile attack on a residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava. Paramedics spent the night rescuing 22 people from the rubble and carrying them away on stretchers. Firefighters and dozens of rescue workers searched through the rubble and carried the dead away on stretchers.

   A missile hit a high-rise apartment building in the city of Poltava and it exploded. The first to fifth floors of the building were destroyed, and most of it turned into rubble, causing a fire. Eighteen nearby apartment buildings and a kindergarten were also damaged. Smoke rose from the piles of rubble outside the building, and some of it was twisted lumps of metal and construction materials. The number of Ukrainian casualties from the Russian rocket attack on Poltava reached 14, including two children aged 9 and 12. A further 20 people were injured, four of whom were infants aged just three months.

    The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine reported that, according to preliminary data analysis, the Russian military had attacked with Kh-22 supersonic cruise missiles. The Russian military regularly attacked Ukrainian regions with various weapons, extensively destroying civilian facilities in Ukraine with drones, rockets, artillery and various types of bombs. Russian authorities deny targeting civilian Ukrainians. Even though President Donald Trump advocated for an immediate ceasefire at the White House, the fighting in Ukraine did not subside.

Warning: Rescuers found another body at the site of a Russian missile attack on a residential building in Poltava / Photo by the SES

During the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, Japanese soldiers launched a surprise attack on the American army's tent encampment to the south of the western village in the early hours of March 26, 1945. The Japanese army was annihilated in a suicidal charge, and the number of abandoned bodies came to 196.

 　During the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, the American military used tanks and flame throwers to wipe out the Japanese soldiers hiding in the cave positions. The Japanese soldiers, cornered by the American military, launched a surprise attack on the tent positions of the American Marine Corps and Army Air Corps to the south of the western village in the early morning of March 26th 1945. The battle lasted for about three hours, and although some of the Japanese troops managed to break through to Wonsan and Chidori Airfield, they were eventually annihilated. The number of Japanese soldiers' bodies abandoned by their comrades reached 196. The bodies of the Japanese soldiers, who had been scattered around the American tents, were left lying around in a pitiful state after the battle.

　　On March 17, the American forces reached the northernmost tip of Iwo Jima, known as “Kitanohana”. Tadamichi Kuribayashi was promoted to the youngest-ever Army General of the Japanese Army and Navy with special permission dated March 17. On March 17, the final orders were sent to the various units, with the intention of launching a final general offensive. From March 18th onwards, the American forces ceased their naval bombardment and air raids, and withdrew their marines to the rear, switching to a strategy of firepower blockade using tanks and mortars, in order to avoid close combat with the Japanese forces. The Japanese forces judged that the time was right for an attack on March 24th, and decided to launch a general offensive at night on March 25th.The Japanese soldiers were ordered to release all remaining food and water supplies, and to quench their thirst and hunger.

　　General Tadamichi Kuribayashi led the troops out of the underground bunker at around 2am on March 26th. The 400-strong Japanese army continued its advance. At 5:15am, they discovered the American camp and launched a full-scale attack. The battle became a huge melee in the pitch dark, throwing the American troops into chaos. Reinforcements arrived from the US army, and after three hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese army's attack force was repelled. The US army suffered 53 casualties and 119 wounded. After the final general attack, 262 bodies of Japanese soldiers were left behind, and 18 were taken prisoner.

At the end of World War II, the bodies of American soldiers were found in the Rhine River near Koblenz in western Germany on April 20th, 1945. Soldiers from the 209th Field Artillery Regiment of the US Army collected the bodies in boats.

 第二次世界大戦末期の西部戦線にて、ドイツ西部のコブレンツの付近を流れるライン川において、1945年4月20日にアメリカ軍兵士の死体が発見された。アメリカ軍の第209野戦砲兵大体の兵士らが、舟艇で死体を収容した。コブレンツはドイツの都市で、ライン川中流域とモーゼル川の支流にある。第二次世界大戦の間、ドイツ軍陸軍B群司令部が置かれ、多くの連合国軍軍から、激しい爆撃を受けた。

　1945年3月16日から3月19日にかけては、アメリカ軍第87歩兵師団がランバージャック作戦を執行するためにドイツ軍と激しい戦闘を行った。ランバージャック作戦は、1945年3月1日から3月25日にアメリカ軍がライン川西岸を占領し、ドイツの主要都市を占領することを目的とした軍事作戦であった。

　ドイツ軍はライン川を渡ろうとする連合軍の奮闘を何度も挫いていた。ランバージャック作戦により、連合軍はモーゼル以北のライン川からドイツ軍を排除した。 連合軍はドイツ軍の第15軍と第7軍の4軍団を壊滅した。予定されていたライン川横断を早めることができた。連合軍は、奇跡的にライン川に残存していたルーデンドルフ橋が3月17日に占領して10日後に崩壊するまでに、連合軍の6個師団をライン川を渡らせた。25人の兵士が死亡または行方不明となり、3人が負傷のため後に死亡、63人が負傷した。

During the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Pacific War, the bodies of Japanese soldiers were exposed to the elements in the trenches of the Japanese army. The Japanese army trenches on the hillside were constructed with logs and earth.

 　During the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Pacific War, the bodies of Japanese soldiers lay exposed to the elements in a Japanese army trench. The Japanese trenches, discovered on a hillside on Guadalcanal Island, were constructed of logs and earth.

　　U.S. forces landed on Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942, and occupied Henderson Airfield, which was under construction by the Japanese. The U.S. forces faced many difficulties due to the harsh jungle environment, limited supplies, and fierce resistance from Japanese forces who counterattacked in an attempt to push back to the sea.The Battle of Guadalcanal soon became a harsh and fierce battle, with both sides suffering heavy losses. Japanese soldiers fought tenacious battles throughout the jungle, repeatedly counterattacking American forces using stealth and ambush tactics. The Japanese sent reinforcements to Guadalcanal with their battleships, but were ultimately unsuccessful. The Americans invaded the treacherous terrain in the face of constant threats from the Japanese.

　　In early November 1942, the Japanese once again organized a convoy of about 7,000 Japanese infantry troops and equipment to Gadar Canal in an attempt to retake Henderson Airfield. Japanese warships bombarded Henderson Airfield in an attempt to destroy Allied aircraft threatening the convoy. In two extremely destructive surface engagements during the night, both sides lost numerous battleships.

　　During the seven months of the Battle of Guadalcanal, until February 9, 1943, when the remaining Japanese forces, numbering about 12,000, withdrew, the U.S. forces suffered heavy casualties, with about 7,100 killed and 8,000 wounded. The Japanese forces suffered approximately 19,000+ killed and an unknown number wounded.

On August 13th 1940, the German army shot dead Poles in Urszyna, near Warsaw, Poland. The victims were knocked down, blindfolded and had plaster put in their mouths. They were shot dead from a short distance of about 2 meters by a firing squad.

    On August 13th 1940, the Germans shot dead Poles in Urszyna, near Warsaw, Poland. The victims were knocked down, blindfolded and their mouths stuffed with plaster. They were shot dead from a distance of about two meters by a firing squad. The bodies of the victims were examined and collected in a hollow in the field.

    In the vicinity of the forest near the village of Apollonka, near Janów, the Gestapo and the Security Police executed 15 young Poles by shooting them as part of Operation AB (Abnormal Pacification). This was a measure taken in all the territories of Poland occupied by the Germans. Polish prisoners of war captured in Operation AB were to be killed near the place of their imprisonment. The killing of prisoners was disguised as the execution of a sentence, and was preceded by a summary trial procedure carried out by the police.

     In places such as Czestochowa in Poland, Operation AB began on the night of June 3rd to 4th, 1940. The arrests were carried out by police officers and Gestapo officers based on a list of people to be arrested. This included people who had already been imprisoned by the Gestapo. The prisoners were taken to the prison in Czestochowa. The arrests spread to the intelligentsia and the working world, and suspected of being involved in the resistance movement. On June 28, June 29, July 1, July 3, July 4, August 13, August 16, and September 25, 1940, executions were carried out in which around 90 Poles were shot dead in the villages of Olsztyn, Apollonka, and Wigoda (near Cieśkowa).

Leningrad was besieged by the German army for 872 days from June 22, 1941 to January 27, 1944. Starvation devastated the city, and people collapsed in the streets and died, their bodies scattered around.

   On June 22, 1941, the German army launched Operation Barbarossa, an invasion of the Soviet Union. The Wehrmacht advanced and reached the gates of Leningrad on September 8, and the city was besieged for 872 days until January 27, 1944. Starvation devastated the city, and people collapsed in the streets and their lifeless bodies lay scattered about. The bodies were collected to be buried in the mass graves at the Volkhov Cemetery. They began to slowly fall to the ground in the streets and died of exposure. The citizens had become completely accustomed to death and walked by indifferently. Since there was no one to clear away the bodies, they lay there for a long time.

   The frozen Lake Ladoga was the only route connecting Leningrad to the outside world. The Soviet army secured food supplies along the “Road of Life”, a road made across the ice of Lake Ladoga to get through the cold. The dangerous ice road, named “The Road of Life” by the Russians, was only passable at night. When the city was liberated in January 1944, more than 90% of the survivors had lost a great deal of weight, and the siege had claimed more than a million lives, including victims of bombing, malnutrition and frostbite. The Leningraders received only 86 tons of food per day.

   From mid-November 1941 to the end of January 1942, the number of famine victims increased rapidly, and more than 4,000 people died every day in Leningrad. More than 1,400 people were arrested on suspicion of cannibalism, and more than 300 people were executed. Decapitated corpses were seen everywhere. The majority of those who broke through the blockade from the Neva River Bridge were killed or injured, and one of the few who returned to active duty in October 1941 was the father of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Col. John R. Hall, Surgeon of 10th Corps, describes affects of atomic bomb on a woman with face burns to members of Far Eastern Advisory Commission, January 26, 1946.

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On March 18, 2025, a relative held the body of a child who had died after an Israeli air strike in the morgue of a hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, while grieving.

     On March 18, 2025, immediate family members grievingly hold the body of a child who died after an Israeli airstrike at a hospital morgue in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The southern city of Khan Younis was engulfed in explosions and plumes of smoke. Ambulances carried the casualties to Nasser Hospital, where patients lay on the floor and screamed.

     Israeli forces launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip in the early hours of March 18, the heaviest offensive in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire took effect in January, targeting Hamas in a hypothetical attack. Palestinian authorities reported that at least 200 people were killed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the airstrikes because of the lack of progress in negotiations to extend the ceasefire. Israeli officials said the operation is expected to be expanded indefinitely. U.S. officials expressed support for Israel's military action. The war has fully resumed, and the fate of some 20 Israeli hostages held by Hamas is now unknown.

     The March 18 airstrikes erupted two months after a temporary cease-fire in the war was reached. For six weeks, the Hamas side released 25 Israeli hostages and eight bodies in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners as the first phase of the ceasefire. When the ceasefire ended two weeks ago, the remaining 59 hostages (35 of whom were killed) were released, and a second phase of the ceasefire could not be agreed upon.

Warning: A man holds the body of a dead child after Israeli airstrikes at the morgue of the hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on March 18, 2025. (Mohammad Jahjouh/Ap)

On the Western Front of World War II, American troops stormed into Nuremberg in central Germany on April 16th 1945. The battlefield of Nuremberg, which ended on April 20th, was strewn with the bodies of German soldiers who had been killed.

      On the Western Front of World War II, the American army stormed into Nuremberg, the birthplace of Nazi Germany, in central Germany, on April 16th 1945. In the city of Nuremberg, a hand-to-hand battle broke out between the American and German armies. The bodies of the German soldiers who had been killed lay piled up on the battlefield of Nuremberg, which ended on April 20th.

     On April 20th, the American army surrounded the old town. In response to the fierce resistance of the German army, the American army deployed heavy artillery and fighter planes. The mayor, Willy Liebel, committed suicide in a bunker. German soldiers were ordered to continue fighting. The American army gave the German army four opportunities to surrender peacefully. The German army realized that they could no longer hold the city, and all German soldiers in the area were ordered to surrender. On the night of April 20th, coincidentally Hitler's 56th birthday, the American flag was raised and the battle officially ended.

    The Battle of Nuremberg was a fierce urban battle that lasted for five days from April 16th to April 20th, 1945 at the end of World War II. At the end of the war, the Allied forces had the advantage in terms of manpower, equipment and vehicles, and they advanced throughout Germany. They cleared out the buildings in the old town and killed the German soldiers who had hidden in the basements and air raid shelters. The Nazi German army had a deluded belief that they would ultimately triumph over the American army. April 20th marked the climax of the battle in the city, which was notorious for its role in the Nazi party. Nuremberg was the birthplace of the Nazi regime, and the German army's surrender dealt a blow to Nazi Germany.

      The Allies used Nuremberg as a symbol of Nazi Germany, and the Nuremberg Trials were held from November 20, 1945, when the 21 defendants appeared in court, until October 1, 1946. After the first international military tribunal, the United States held a further 12 trials in Nuremberg. In total, 199 defendants were tried, 161 were found guilty and 37 were sentenced to death.