WW2

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  “Section of human skin preserved as ornament. Found at Buchenwald. Evidence submitted by American Prosecution at War Crimes Trial in Nuremberg of 21 top Nazis.” ca. 1945 – 1946.

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  G Gordon Liddy, FBI agent & Watergate culprit known for his macho antics, in 1964. Liddy had a habit of putting his hand over a lit flame to test his pain endurance, & supposedly sang the Nazi anthem upon entering prison to demonstrate his fearlessness. He never apologized for Watergate (2346×2928)

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  Survivors searching for relatives massacred by roving Nazi murder squads. Kerch, Crimea. January 1942.

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  UK, WW2

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  Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s private secretary, relaxes on the terrace at the Berghof, Hitler’s vacation home on the Obersalzberg, 1943.

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  “We will finish off the Nazi invaders in their den!” USSR, 1944

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  Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division suffering a hangover after celebrating V-E Day at Hitler’s “Eagles Nest” (where they “liberated” a collection of 10,000 bottles of liquor, wine, and champagne amassed by Hermann Göring) in Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1945.

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  “I need a couple guys what don’t owe me no money fer a little routine patrol.” Cartoon of soldiers during WWII, 1939-1945.

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  Nazis cutting off earlocks of a Jewish man, Kraków 1939-1945

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  “Good work, sister: we never figured you could do a man-size job!” – American WW2 Poster. Packer, 1944.

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  Your average PSA during WWII.

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  I found this photograph of a Nazi at a thrift store in New York

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  The Egyptian paper Al-Ithnayn wa al-Dunya mistakenly believed that Hitler would not be able to conquer Poland and would be stuck there. “He cannot swallow it.” September 18, 1939

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  WW2 German death card for a German cross in gold winner

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  A female Soviet soldier captured by the Wehrmacht. 1941

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  Rudolf Spanner made soap out of human fat in Danzig during ww2

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  A photo of the swearing-in of the Austrian Nazi government of Arthur Seyss-Inquart following the Anschluss. Anton Reinthaller (fourth from the right) served as the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. After the war, he would found the far-right Freedom Party of Austria, Vienna, 1938 .

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  Nazi postcard depicting a global struggle between National Socialism and Communism. Text at top right reads: ‘Follow this sign and you will win’. (Germany, 1930)

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  Identification of the corpse , 2-6 May 1945. Photo by Morozov

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  “The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Isherwood (DD-520) steams off Ie Shima, during the fighting there in mid-April 1945.” Original color WWII photo of artillery shells hitting Japanese positions on the island of Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa, April 1945.

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