Press photographs, mainly on the Second World War, the Liberation, Germany, France and miscellaneous. Set of around fifty prints, mostly silver, several counter-types, reproductions and documents. Circa 1940-50. On verso of some prints, captions (eg: German prisoners, Pierre Laval landing in Austria, war criminals on trial in Vienna, German soldiers freed by the Russians, the cream of the former German forces, capture of Aachen, police training in Berlin, disarmament of the Luftwaffe, Berlin children evacuated to more hospitable regions, 600,000 Germans expelled from the Russian zone, Night Life in Russian Berlin, Paris celebrated the second anniversary of its liberation, 100 Russian soldiers and officers arrested during a roundup, German aircraft captured, ....) and/or cachet. Various states and formats.

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