WW2

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  American Marines posing with a collection of Japanese skulls, Pacific Theater, WW2. Trophy-taking was so widespread that by 1944, declaring bones at Hawaii customs had become routine procedure. (600×453)

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  The United States Navy’s Pacific Reserve Fleet in San Diego became one of the largest “Mothball Fleets” after World War II.

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  Hitler coming out of his bunker, last days of the war, 1945.

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  Future WWII hero & French president Charles De Gaulle with his daughter Anne in the 1930’s. Anne was born with down syndrome but was never institutionalized, as was common at the time, & lived with her family until the end of her life. She died of pneumonia in 1948 at the age of 20 (1310×900)

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  ‘The Woman with the Handbag’ – A 38-year-old woman, Danuta Danielsson, hits a marching Neo-Nazi with a handbag in Växjö, Sweden. April 13, 1985.

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  Happy Easter Adolph!, 1945, WW2, American Soldiers Show off Personalized Easter Eggs

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  A crowd arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. May-June 1944.

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  Child gives another child a picked dandelion in Auschwitz, 1944

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  ‘we’ll be back’—Neo-Nazi graffiti on Hitler’s 57th birth anniversary, 20th April 1946

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  Prague-born restaurant owner Fred Horak of Somerville, MA putting up a sign barring German customers from entering his property until ‘Hitler the Gangster’ returns the lands seized from Czechoslovakia

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  A Wehrmacht officer of the 707th Division hangs two Belorussian teenagers in Nazi-Occupied Minsk, photographed during Operation Barbarossa. October 26, 1941.

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  ‘The If-Hitler-Loses-We’re-Sunk Corporation’—American cartoon from the Second World War, June 1941

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  Adolf Hitler at age 35 after his release from Landsberg Prison. Weimar Republic, December 20, 1924. This photograph was taken shortly after Hitler finished dictating ‘Mein Kampf’ to Rudolf Hess.

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  American Trotskyist cartoon (1938) showing Stalin and Hitler standing on the skulls of their victims.

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  Speech in which Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States, 1941.

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  Adolf Hitler with Helga Goebbels during a walk on Heiligendamm beach. 13th July, 1935. Helga would be murdered by her parents in May 1945.

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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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