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A photo of inventor Franz Reichelt just before his death after jumping off the first deck of the Eiffel Tower, 187 feet or 57 meters above ground (February 4th, 1912) .
In 1939, during the Winter War, Finnish soldiers positioned the frozen body of a Soviet soldier as part of psychological warfare.
The skull of King Charles XII of Sweden, 1917
The evolution of British postal uniforms, from 1840 (left) to 1940 (right)

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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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  • “At a rest stop.” Frenchmen liberated by Soviet troops from Nazi camps are returning to their homeland. 1945. Photo by Ryumkin.
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  • Young German soldier WW2
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  • On the right in the photo is Ilyin Nikolai Yakovlevich, sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union. He was killed in action on August 4, 1943. He finished with a totally of 494, making him one of the best snipers of WW2.
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  • Jewish mothers walking with children past the barracks and the electrified barbed wire destined for the gas chambers at Auschwitz on May 27th, 1944.
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  • ”The Hun Cowardly Bully at Work” – Canadian cartoon (artist: Arthur George Racey) showing Hitler punching the Angel of Peace, 1938
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  • Two astronauts laugh with Pad Leader Gunther Wendt at Kennedy Space Center a few hours before the launch of Apollo 14. The helmet was a ‘gag gift’ from the astronauts, referring to Wendt’s service in the Luftwaffe during World War 2. January 31, 1971.
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  • Munition workers of Allied countries are hitting back at Hitler through British factories! – British WW2 poster.
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  • Belgian Nazi Propaganda Poster: showing SS symbol knifing through Flemish lion, 1940s
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  • 2008 – You don’t recognize nazis at first sight
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  • The body of Hermann Göring, Oct. 16, 1946. (2845 × 2208)
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  • World War 2 vets at the Legion. My wife’s uncles.
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  • Siniristi (Blue Cross) was a Finnish Nazi magazine published between 1931 & 1939
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  • Their Death is the Birthday of World Peace! Japan, WW2
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  • ”THE RED BOGY” – anti-Nazi cartoon made by Polish-American artist Arthur Szyk, circa November 1943
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  • The body of The Goebbels family 1945. (1080 × 763)
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  • Winston Churchill perched on the remnants of Hitler’s chair in 1945.
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