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My Italian Family, circa 1901.

I was waiting for you, warrior-liberator! We will free all Soviet people from fascist captivity. USSR 1943

1984 Chrysler Fifth Avenue. Bring back Plush Pillow Seats

Nguyen Van Thuan, Vietnamese Cardinal who endured nine years of solitary confinement under the Viet Cong, during which he still celebrated Mass with smuggled bread and wine, and passed down messages of hope to his persecuted flock. (c. 1971)

My mother, age 4, in 1949

War

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, some sailors were trapped on the USS West Virginia and the USS Oklahoma. One group of men survived 16 days, which they tallied on the wall of the storeroom where they were trapped. No one wanted guard duty because of the incessant banging and screaming.
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King Neptune oversees a “Line crossing ceremony” for crossing the Equator on USS Lexington CV-16 in Early 1944. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are called Shellbacks or Sons of Neptune. Those who have not yet crossed the Equator are nicknamed Pollywogs.
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Stalin in a meeting with his generals (1930’s, nazi germany)
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German war criminals laugh at a translation mistake during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945. (962 x 709)
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“My torturer is on the loose!” Soviet poster about victims of the Nazi concentration camps. 1965.
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Dead Italian soldier holding a photograph of his child, north Africa, 1940, WWII
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Indian soldiers scouting Pakistani positions in Kashmir during the 1999 Kargil War
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1926 photo of Eduard Bloch, Jewish Austrian physician who was the Hitler family’s personal doctor. He treated Adolf Hitler’s mother for breast cancer, reducing or outright eliminating her medical bills. Hitler later declared him an “honorary Aryan” & allowed him to escape to the US. (379×445)
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British cartoon showing Churchill embracing the Soviet bear during the Second World War, but condemning it in the interwar and postwar periods, 1946.
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A child soldier being captured by American forces in Austria (1945)
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A Japanese magazine shows soldiers handing out candy to Chinese children. The magazine is from 1939.
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Grandparents after the War
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My hometown in Brazil also has a WW2 monument
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Siege (battle) of Leningrad: German sentinel next to a sign post ‘Where the german soldier stands is germany’ 01.dec.1941
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Soviet Russian invasion of Finland (British Cartoon, 1939)
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Joseph Goebbels glares at Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1933.
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The war correspondent Jean Marin observes the corpses of Belgian civilians killed by the Waffen-SS at the Legaye, at Stavelot. 1944 (1387 × 928)
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Italy is in our hands! – Arabic anti-fascist World War Two Propoganda
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1939A hard defence to crack, Britain WWII(1939)
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German POWs captured during the Battle of Aachen being marched through the ruined streets of the city in October, 1944.
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