War

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  The Type 42 destroyer HMS Manchester alongside the cruiser HMS Belfast on the Thames, London, c. 1984.

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  Young Neo-Nazis salute Hitler at a rally in Chicago’s Marquette Park, in 1978. The “National Socialist Party of America” was led by Frank Collin, whose conviction on child sexual abuse charges a year later led to the collapse of the organization.

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  Soviet soldier wipes his boots with Nazi flag, Breslau, 1945

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  15-year-old Léon Merdjian, a member of the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism during the Battle of Moscow, 1941.

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  ‘His Struggle, Your Death’ — Soviet photomontage from the Second World War (ca. 1941) by Aleksandr Zhitomirsky.

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  A Mk-38 shoots during a live-fire exercise aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), Dec. 5, 2025.

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  Guided missile cruiser USS Columbus (CG-12) on sea trials, December 1962

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  A photo taken of Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger shortly before he was sent to a concentration camp for child molestation. Dirlewanger was later freed due to his Nazi Party connections and placed in charge of a Waffen-SS unit composed mainly of convicted murderers and rapists (Germany, 1934) .

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  Heavy cruiser USS Astoria (CA-34) at Puget Sound Navy Yard, 25 September 1939

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  Suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem being escorted by South Vietnamese soldiers, just moments before his infamous execution, which was caught on camera. Saigon during the Tet Offensive, February 1968.

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  African-Americans protest against the Vietnam war during the Harlem Peace March, 1967

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  South African Navy Warrior-class inshore patrol vessel SAS King Shaka Zulu (1600×1148)

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  US WW1 Poster : True Blue. 1919.

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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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