WW2

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  A German survivor from the U-448 sub, after it was sunk by depth charges, on the deck of the Canadian HMCS Swansea. WW2, April 14, 1944

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  ‘The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi’ — Allied sticker (or gummed label) from the Second World War, ca. 1943-44.

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  ‘Never forget that England imposed this war on us’ – Goebbels speaks at the NSDAP district rally in the Berlin Sportpalast, 4 December 1942.

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  Hitler looking at a model of Linz in the Reich Chancellery Basement in Berlin, February 9 1945

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  American illustration (1939) showing Uncle Sam walking in on Nazis decorating American heroes and monuments with swastikas

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  A Nazi Einsatzgruppen aims his rifle at a mother desperately shielding her child. Ivanhorod, occupied Ukraine, 1942.

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  Chinese poster showing Yasukuni Shrine (a controversial Japanse WW2 memorial) being destroyed by a cross with Nanjing massacre date engrained on it, China 2020.

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  A Swedish woman, whose mother had survived Auschwitz, hitting a neo-Nazi with her handbag. (1985)

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  A tank crew with the 11th Armored Division next to their M4 tank during the Battle of the Bulge. 1/12/45

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  Fanatical Japanese ultranationalist, mass murderer, and war criminal Hiroo Onoda finally surrenders. After World War II, he and others murdered up to 30 people in a 29-year terrorist campaign. Onoda would be pardoned for his crimes by the dictator Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines, 1974) .

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  ‘Hail Caesar! Those who are about to die salute you’, Allied flyer dropped over Italy, quoting the ancient Roman gladiatorial greeting and depicting Mussolini as Hitler’s puppet while Italian soldiers march off towards Russia, Libya and death, 1942

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  ‘These shameful deeds: your fault!’, US propaganda poster issued in occupied Germany immediately after WWII, meant to confront the population with Nazi atrocities and foster collective guilt as part of the denazification process, 1945

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  Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.

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  ‘Oh, what a pleasure to be a German SA boy!’—Austrian anti-Nazi propaganda alleging that the Nazis were homosexuals, early 1930s

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  Soviet New Year’s card from the Second World War (1942) showing Ded Moroz decorating his tree with Nazis.

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  ‘Hitler was a far – leftist. Contrary to the communist propaganda hitlerites had nothing in common with right – wing’, cover from a conservative magazine, Poland 2017.

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  Dutch Nazi movement members and shaven ‘Moffenmeids’ (women who had relationships with German occupiers) being publicly shamed after the liberation of The Netherlands, 1945.

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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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  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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