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  ‘Hail Caesar! Those who are about to die salute you’, Allied flyer dropped over Italy, quoting the ancient Roman gladiatorial greeting and depicting Mussolini as Hitler’s puppet while Italian soldiers march off towards Russia, Libya and death, 1942

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  Wounded French soldiers participating in drills inside the Grand Palais to prepare to return to active duty. (1916)

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  ‘These shameful deeds: your fault!’, US propaganda poster issued in occupied Germany immediately after WWII, meant to confront the population with Nazi atrocities and foster collective guilt as part of the denazification process, 1945

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  Orphaned Child-Soldier Hans Georg Henke after being captured by the allies in 1945.

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  Greek armored cruiser Georgios Averof. Fought the ottomans twice in the First Balkan War in Elli (1912) and Lemnos (1913). Today it’s a floating museum ship in Athens.

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  Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.

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  American M4A1(76)W Sherman medium tanks of the 771st Separate Tank Battalion in Münster. The tower of St. Lambert’s Church is visible in the background.

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  The Sōryū-class submarine are diesel-electric attack submarines. The first boat in the class entered service with the Japanese Navy in 2009.

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  The home of civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Moore after being bombed by the Ku Klux Klan on Christmas Day. Both were killed in the bombing. They were the first civil rights activists to be assassinated during the post-war civil rights movement (Florida, 1951) .

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  ‘Oh, what a pleasure to be a German SA boy!’—Austrian anti-Nazi propaganda alleging that the Nazis were homosexuals, early 1930s

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  Tora! Tora! Tora! Pulled Off a Naval Spectacle Using 40-Foot Miniature Warships

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  Soviet New Year’s card from the Second World War (1942) showing Ded Moroz decorating his tree with Nazis.

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  Japanese Navy today has launched the 12th and final Mogami-class frigate, which carries the name ‘Yoshī’.

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  ‘Long live the Union of Jewish and Arab youth in the war against fascism!’, Palestine Communist Party (PCP),1943

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  Royal Navy Size in 1955

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  The Self Defense Test Ship, Formerly the USS Paul F. Foster (DD-964), is now equipped with the SPY-6(V)2 radar.

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  ‘Oh, yeah! Look what we got!’ 2021 American political cartoon by ‘Americans for Limited Government’, attacking Joe Biden over the promotion of a transgender admiral (not an US Navy one).

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  ‘Hitler was a far – leftist. Contrary to the communist propaganda hitlerites had nothing in common with right – wing’, cover from a conservative magazine, Poland 2017.

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  Heavy cruiser USS Chicago (CA-136) off Philadelphia Navy Yard, 7 May 1945

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  Dutch Nazi movement members and shaven ‘Moffenmeids’ (women who had relationships with German occupiers) being publicly shamed after the liberation of The Netherlands, 1945.

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