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  These photographs are practically the last evidence of the ‘quiet’ life in Crimea. Exactly one year later, the Crimean Tatar people will be deported. Crimea, 1943 Magnum Photos/Herbert List Estate Creative Commons

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  “Reunion in Vienna” American cartoon about the German annexation of Austria, March 1938

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  As the ceremonies for the formal surrender of Japan concluded 9/2/45, MacArthur told Halsey ‘Start ’em now’ which was the order for the final display of airpower. Hundreds of carrier-based planes and B-29 bombers filled the sky over Tokyo Bay to punctuate the day’s events.

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  Yugoslav WW2 Poster – 1945

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  My mom and her siblings 1940 (she’s the big one holding her sister)

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  After the Fall: A Photo from inside of Hitler’s Bunker, Berlin 1945,

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  Central African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa & his wife Catherine during his coronation as ‘Emperor of Central Africa,’ 1977. The ceremony was so extravagant that it cost a 3rd of the country’s entire annual budget to carry out. None of the world leaders invited to the event attended (1920×1080)

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  Germans removing ruins in front of the Reichstag (1946)

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  ‘Aid to the Starving, American Style.’ Soviet Union, c. 1970s

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  King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and his wife Queen Elena outside their house in Alexandria (Egypt) where they lived in exile, 1947

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  ‘Grandmother with the Soviet flag’, painting, 2022

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  Chinese-American waitress Ruth Lee with a flag of China to make clear she is chinese and no Japanese and avoid harrasment, December 1941

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  ‘The Spanish Brute’, Anti-Spanish propaganda, July 1898

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  Crew of an upended Sherman II of the 7th Armoured Brigade enjoy a ‘brew’ with a US Soldier while waiting for a recovery team near the Gothic Line in Italy, 13 September 1944

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  The transformation of the Jolly Green Giant

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  One of the only known photos ever taken of British Queen Victoria smiling, 1897. Despite her reputation as a serious, humorless monarch (epitomized by the apocryphal quote ‘We are not amused’) those close to her considered the Queen to have quite a sense of humor. (1727×1348)

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  “Monica was easy, Serbia’s defeat will not be” White House protest sign about Bill Clinton’s sex scandal and his decision to bomb Serbia, March 1999

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  GE Widescreen 1000 — General Electric’s Performance TV from 1978

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  Funeral procession for Horst Wessel: beginning of the stylization of the murdered NSDAP and SA member as a “Blutzeuge” (martyr), Berlin, March 1930. (580×405)

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  ‘Soviet propaganda’ 1944-1945

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