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The top ten iconic photos of WWII. I think the one of Hitler walking in front of the Eiffel tower nails the sense of that whole decade or perhaps Capa's D-Day photo.
I think an iconic video of the time is that one of the Germans marching in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. I'm sure you've seen it.
Two I remember that made a contemporary impact was a photo of a Chinese baby crying in the rubble and another of a Frenchman weeping as Nazi troops marched by. According to some sources on WWII propaganda, the baby was placed there by the photographer, and the Frenchman was a fascist weeping for joy.
Is this the one?
Weeping Parisian from NARA Ww2-81 [Public domain], by Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 - 09/15/1945), from Wikimedia CommonsHere's the caption (my emphasis in bold):French people bid troops of the French Army goodbye as they leave metropolitan France at Marseille harbour, 1941, to reach the French colonies in Africa to be organized as Free French Forces. Incorrectly captioned by NARA as "A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France."
