War

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  7 Oct 1943, Ottla Kafka, beloved sister of author Franz Kafka, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid

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  This is a photo of Lou Conter, who passed away today at the age 102. Lou was the last remaining survivor of the USS Arizona, which was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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  “Dad, about Afghanistan…” A sad caricature of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, 2021

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  The priest fires a machine gun. South Lebanon (Lebanese Civil War), May 1985 .

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  (Date unknown, ww2 era) Stalin as a lion tamer whipping the nazi leadership

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  Clemens August Graf von Galen, the German Catholic Bishop who openly resisted Nazi rule (c. 1940)

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  Star Wars Separatists propaganda. Date unknown

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  Royal Marines taking part in invasion exercises in 1943.

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  Wilhelm Dorr, formerly an SS warden in Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Dora-Mittelbau, and Bergen-Belsen, is forced to make an announcement for a British newsreel while standing in front of a truck filled with prisoners’ corpses. 1945 (1251 x 1200)

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  One of the propaganda poster from the Turkish War of Independence. The occupied territories are delineated by borders, Turkish woman is thinking sadly in front of the Istanbul skyline. 1920

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  German President Paul Von Hindenburg inspecting troops, 1920s-30s. Hindenburg was the last leader of Germany before Adolf Hitler, and in 1933 he played a crucial role in the Nazis coming to power, appointing Hitler chancellor under intense political pressure. (1292×896)

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  Albert Göring, younger brother of the infamous Hermann Göring in 1940. Serving as the export director of Škoda Works he would use his position and brothers reputation to save over hundreds of jews during WW2 as well as avoid four arrest and one death warrant.

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  German cartoon from the Second World War (ca. 1943) showing an Englishman enjoying his garden unaware of the Soviet train speeding towards him.

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  A Dutch woman refused to leave her husband, a German soldier, and goes with him to Allied captivity. Walcheren, November 1944

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  1940 portrait of Hugo Sperrle, Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe. He survived WWII and was tried at Nuremberg, but was acquitted (2782×3780)

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  The Nuremberg trials: the Nazis’ last line of defense // Soviet Union // 1945

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  American soldier returning home from The Great War, ca 1918-19

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  Catholic cartoon showing the graves of Stalin, Hitler, Bismarck, Attila and Nero all engraved with the words ‘I will destroy the Church’. USA, March 1953.

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  NAZI -> NATO (Christian Hans Herluf Bidstrup, 1958)

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  French anti-Franco postcard (1946) showing a blood-soaked Nazi skeleton casting its shadow over France from Spain.

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