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My beautiful grandma and her dog circa 1930’s

A man in Afghanistan is condemned to death for being a supporter of the communist regime. He would later be shot and beheaded 1980.

‘Let’s protect children from the priest’s claws!’ (USSR, 1962)

Johnny Clem, the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” who shot and killed a Confederate officer and rose through the ranks to Major General at the time of his retirement in 1916.

Spitfires ready for action in 1939.

War

German soldier returns home from war only to find his house in ruin and his family perished. Frankfurt, 1946.
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Magda Goebbels, wife of Reichminister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, and her 6 children, 1942. All 6 would be murdered by their parents on 1 May 1945 as Soviet troops closed in on the Führerbunker in Berlin.
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Photo of postwar deportations of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia. They wear an “N” on their clothes that stands for “Němec,” which means German. (January 1946)(1280×1206)
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US soldiers of the 87th Infantry Division trample on a portrait of Hitler in Koblenz, Germany, March 1945.
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Finnish soldiers relax in a sauna during the Winter War, 1939 (910×891)
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German Shepherd in uniform posed by German soldier, early 1940s
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Photo of the charred corpse of a prisoner who attempted to escape a burning barn, which had been set on fire by the Volkssturm and Hitler Youth, Germany, April 1945 (1101×1391)
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Photograph entitled ‘Wait for Me, Daddy’. It shows a child running to his father, a Canadian soldier, before being deployed during The Second World War. Behind you can see his mother. October 1, 1940.
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This is how a man and wife slept in 1947. Simmons Beautyrest with prewar quality!
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A dying man in Buchenwald was given a cigarette by an American soldier during liberation, Germany 1945.
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Beginning in 1932, Oskar Speck kayaked 50,000km over seven years from Germany to Australia. Just three weeks before his arrival in Australia, Germany invaded Poland. Upon his arrival, he was congratulated, then arrested by Australian police and spent the duration of the war in a POW camp
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British troops pose with a captured soldier of the 12th SS Panzer Division, 1944.
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A USCG member explores tunnels on Iwo Jima in 1983, nearly 40 years after the devastating battle against Japan. Live artillery shells untouched since the war are at right. The tunnel itself still had live munitions and Japanese remains from where they fell in battle.
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In Pyongyang, North Korea (2012), a child aims a toy gun at a depiction of a U.S. soldier while playing a game
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Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany inspecting troops (circa 1915)
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A British soldier scolding a German civilian for laughing at a screening of concentration camp conditions. She was ordered to rewatch the film. (May 1945)(1296×958)
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Hugh Thompson, the hero who stopped a massacre committed by US troops in the Vietnamese village of My Lai by landing his helicopter in the line of fire, 1968.
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3 girls strolling past two British soldiers keeping watch for snipers after a spate of rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (1981)
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‘Come on in, I’ll treat you well!I used to know your daddy! ‘ Anti-war poster by C. D. Batchelor from 1936 showing how European young men are getting involved in war
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A boy carrying oversized pretzels in post-war Germany, 1950s. A symbol of recovery, resilience, and the joy of simple things.
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