War

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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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  A caricature of the war in Afghanistan, 2019

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  A Rhodesian soldier wearing sneakers takes a smoke break during the Rhodesian Bush War, 1970s

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  Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972.

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  Two Soviet soldiers sitting together Circa 1970

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  U.S. Soldier picking up the corpse of a dead Viet Cong soldier, 1960s

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