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Georges Bonnet (1889-1973) was a French politician and minister of finance, pictured with 47th French Prime Minister Camille Chautemps (1885-1963) on the left, and with Leon Blum (1872-1950), another French Prime Minister.

Generally known as Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), the French Marshal and Prime Minister/Chief of the French State from 1940-1944 is pictured here with US General John J.
Pershing (1860-1948), leaving Pétain’s inauguration ceremony.

Princess Juliana of the Netherlands (1909-2004) and her husband Prince Bernhard (1911-2004) are pictured staying in Poland, in the mountains of the Beskids.

Hermann Goering (1893-1946) was a German political and military leader as well as one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party. Pictured with the winner of the German Derby in Hamburg.

Then-Princess (and current Queen) Elizabeth (1926-) and Philip
Mountbatten (1921-) of Great Britain, pictured with Edward VIII, visiting the sports grounds of the Osram factory near Berlin.

King Boris III (1894-1943) was the Tsar of Bulgaria from 1918 until his death. Pictured greeting an Archbishop at the international land of the Black Sea, for a tribute to fallen warriors.

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Führer of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He initiated World War II and was responsible for the mass killings of Jews and other minorities throughout Europe. He is pictured here speaking to the Reichstag, driving in a…

A Nazi demonstration in Berlin.

Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) was a Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany, directly appointed by Hitler, from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Hitler’s most devoted underlings. Pictured addressing a crowd in Berlin.

A photograph of Michinomiya Hirohito (1901-1989), Prince of Japan from 1921 to 1926, and Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989 after his father Yoshihito's death. He was the figurehead of the government as Japan entered World War II alongside Germany…