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A Canadian Soldier Looks at a Portrait of Adolf Hitler
In this photo, taken February 28, 1945, a soldier of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division is seen in profile looking at a portrait of Adolf Hitler fixed with a knife to the wall of a house in Calcar, Germany.  Larger image
Lieut. Ken Bell, photograph, Calcar, Germany, February 28, 1945

A soldier of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division contemplates a portrait of Adolf Hitler fixed to a house wall with a knife. The image encapsulates on a human scale the conflict that set Nazism against democracy.

Lieut. Ken Bell / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-140881