So great was the press of the crowd that police lines were almost broken as chancellor Adolf Hitler opened the new east-west road between Brandenburger and Adolf Hitler square in Berlin on April 19, 1939. Storm trooper reinforcements holding back the spectators. (AP Photo)
Sgt. Radford, British police officer, gives directions to 1st Sgt. Elco Bolton, of the U.S. Army, somewhere in Britain, June 17, 1942. Bolton is an African American whose wife and four children are living in Tampa, Fla. He had been in service for 26 years, and was stationed in Brest during the last war. (AP Photo/Harrison B. Roberts)
Victims of the fire in Coconut Grove Night Club, lie stretched out on a Boston street, Nov. 28, 1942, while spectators and friends hunt for relatives, and ambulance crews check for signs of life. Boston police estimated the death toll would near 150. (AP Photo)
Escorted by two police cars, Dr. Kordt, German charge D’affaires in London, left, the German embassy on September 3, a few hours after a state of war had been declared between great Britain and Germany. Dr. Kordt, German charge Dâ affaires in London, leaving the German embassy on Sept. 3, 1939. Note the police escort. (AP Photo)
These youths, one stripped of all his clothes and the other badly beaten, fell victim to raging bands of servicemen who scoured the streets in Los Angeles, June 20, 1943, looking for and beating zoot suited youths. The servicemen blame the zoot suited youths for numerous unprovoked assaults on their colleagues. (AP Photo)
German secret police uncover false flooring in a Russian home Oct. 17, 1941, during a search for evidence of the activity of soviet partisans behind the German lines. (AP Photo)
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, holds the Cuban order of police merit, with distinctive white of the first class, and wears the lapel button of the order just conferred by representatives of the Cuban President, Maj. Gen. Fulgencio Batista Nov. 30, 1942. Left is Capt. Oscar Gutierrez of the Cuban National Police; right, Dr. Aurelio F. Concheso, Cuban Ambassador. (AP Photo)
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