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Vladimir Lenin’s last photo. He had had three strokes at this point and was completely mute, 1923

The Nine Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII, photographed on 20 May 1910

The Cross Was Not Heavy Enough by John Heartfield, 1933

This is what the Titanic’s first class menu looked like the day it sunk (1912).

The temporary grave of Theodore Roosevelt in Normandy, soon after his death, July 1944

War

Fearing capture by US troops after Nazi defeat, Major Walter Doenicke of the Volkssturm lies dead next to a torn picture of Hitler after ingesting cyanide
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USS Kearsarge (BB-5) illuminated with electric lights, while visiting Portsmough, England in July 1903.
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“Hitler came the closest” American poster, artist Boris Artzybasheff, 1943
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“Section of human skin preserved as ornament. Found at Buchenwald. Evidence submitted by American Prosecution at War Crimes Trial in Nuremberg of 21 top Nazis.” ca. 1945 – 1946.
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G Gordon Liddy, FBI agent & Watergate culprit known for his macho antics, in 1964. Liddy had a habit of putting his hand over a lit flame to test his pain endurance, & supposedly sang the Nazi anthem upon entering prison to demonstrate his fearlessness. He never apologized for Watergate (2346×2928)
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Dead Soviet soldier clutching a grenade, June 1941 in Belarus.
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My Great Great Grandfather in his WW1 uniform. He was born today in 1868.
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Survivors searching for relatives massacred by roving Nazi murder squads. Kerch, Crimea. January 1942.
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The Pacific Navy (1907)
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American soldiers surrender to the SS-Kampfgruppe Peiper . Stoumont, Belgium. 12/19/1944
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Soviet flamethrower soldiers fight for the city of Küstrin 03/12/1945. Photo by A. Kapustyansky
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German soldiers sleep after moving from Holland to Belgium. May 1940
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German soldiers in Russia 1942 January
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UK, WW2
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Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s private secretary, relaxes on the terrace at the Berghof, Hitler’s vacation home on the Obersalzberg, 1943.
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Totally Straight Navy sub recruitment, US, 1943
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“We will finish off the Nazi invaders in their den!” USSR, 1944
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Fritz Loew, a 41-year-old German prisoner of war who was captured at Metz. January 1945.
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A cousin of mine was killed on the first day of Operation Cobra on July 26, 1944, when his tank took a direct hit. He was a veteran of the invasions of Sicily & North Africa where he earned the DSC for valor. He served with the 66th Armored Regiment of the 2nd Armored Division. Humbling.
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Political cartoon about Russian support of Bashar Al Assad during the Syrian Civil War, 2012
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