War

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  Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov. Left: 1980 (declared KIA). Right: 2013 (found living as a healer in Herat). He had forgotten the Russian language entirely.

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  Adolf Hitler’s Walther PP (.32 ACP), a 50th-birthday gift from the Walther family in 1939, features gold inlays and ivory grips. It sold to a private collector in 1987 for $114,000 and is now estimated to be worth millions.

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  Auschwitz guards having a good time (1944) (1023×682)

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  Hitler says goodbye to Mussolini (they will never meet to again) Germany, 1944.

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  ‘New paradise for children, China and Japan will forever be close.’ Poster depicting a Chinese mother and child welcoming Japanese troops to occupied Beijing (c. 1937)

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  Roman Catholic priest Johann Nepomuk Kühberger, who as a four-year-old saved a boy his age who had fallen into the icy waters near the small town of Passau. According to locals, this boy was Adolf Hitler. Photo from the 1950s.

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  The Moment when Hitler declared war on the USA 1941, December 11th

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  «No More War» American (by Terry and Dennis Newell) Anti-War poster during the Vietnam war, 1970

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  Hitler’s drawings of potential Nazi logos, May 1920

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  (960 x 720) South African Navy submarine BBQ

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  M36 Jackson from the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion stood in front of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg, April 1945

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  A Harvest of Death. Photograph of the dead taken in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863).

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  Luftwaffe aces meet Hitler after an awards ceremony at the Berghof, 1944

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  A French woman has her head shaved by civilians as a penalty for having consorted with German troops, 1944

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  ‘Every Canadian MUST fight!’ – WWII Poster – 1942

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  A French soldier in 1918, equipped with a helmet with chainmail to protect the eyes from shell fragments, stones, and other dangerous elements

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  “The Face of a Modern Crusader- with his hair matted and grit and determination stamped all over his face, an American soldier, injured while landing on a beachhead on the northern coast of France, has his hand bandaged by an American medical officer” June 6, 1944.

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  Four principal classes of Russian Navy surface combatants are seen here, from left to right: a Slava-class guided missile cruiser, a Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser, an Udaloy-class anti-submarine destroyer, and an Admiral Gorshkov-class multirole frigate.

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  Some of the 300 to 500 people who tried to lynch a black teenager charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The lynching was foiled when Tennessee National Guard troops shot and stabbed dozens of the attackers, four of them fatally, after tear gas proved ineffective (Shelbyville, 1934) .

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  Final assembly of Jagdpanzer VI ‘Jagdtiger’ at the Nibelungenwerke tank factory in St. Valentin, Lower Austria, 1944

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