War

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  A day after his execution on this day in 1967, Che Guevara’s corpse was displayed to the news media in the laundry house of the Vallegrande hospital, Bolivia.

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  For almost 70 years, the young girl in this post-war photograph was unidentified. Research traced her identity to Teresa Adwentowska, from Warsaw, who was severely affected by wartime trauma. In a residence for disturbed children, she drew a picture of ‘home’ on the blackboard. 1948.

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  Colonial chief Waruhiu Kungu (Kenya)lies dead in his Hudson car after being shot by Mau Mau, Oct 7th,1952 ,the first shots of the Kenyan independence war

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  In 1970, troops from the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed people at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others

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  U.S. soldiers posing with the bodies of Moro men, women & children following the Bud Dajo massacre on Jolo Island, Philippines, March 7, 1906

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  British cartoon about Joseph Stalin ignoring the signs of a German led invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941

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  An ethnic German girl in a transit camp before being deported from Czechoslovakia during postwar expulsions, August 1946 (2457×2013)

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  The dead bodies of Leipzig Deputy Mayor Ernst Lisso, his wife Renate & their daughter Regina after committing suicide by cyanide in his office to avoid capture by US troops. April 18, 1945 (2813×1875)

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  Deployed in Labrador by a nazi U-Boat in 1943, the weather station Kurt will remains here until being finally discovered by Canadians in 1981 (640×465)

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  Wounded German soldiers listen to Joseph Goebbels’ “Total War” speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, February 1943 (1220×941)

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  North Korean propaganda painting depicting North Korean and Russian soldiers together holding North Korean and Russian flags. Not sure but probably from the last few years so 2020s

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  “South Tyrol, Don’t Forget It!” Austrian poster about the Italianization of South Tyrol under Benito Mussolini, showing a Roman soldier and an enslaved Germanic man (1920s)

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  The Terror of War, also known as Napalm Girl, is a photograph taken on 8 June 1972. It features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops.

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  American soldiers paying tribute to the 8 million horses, mules and donkeys that died transporting supplies in WW1, 1918.

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  A WW2 era Mercedes-Benz propaganda poster showcasing their contributions to the German war machine.

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  A Japanese soldier beheads a Chinese man after the capture of Nanking in 1937.

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  Recently liberated American prisoners of war at Aomori camp near Yokohama, Japan, circa 29 Aug 1945

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  Tactical trick of soldiers during the Mexican Revolution, 1913.

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  SS troops loot winter boots from killed American soldiers during the Ardennes Offensive, December 1944

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  German soldier returns home from war only to find his house in ruin and his family perished. Frankfurt, 1946.

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