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Five SS men are forced to walk past the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering. They’d changed into civilian clothes in a failed attempt to evade capture. According to the photographer, the five men were all shot after this photo was taken (Germany, May 6, 1945) .
Smoking banned in Italy (Chappatte, 2005)
n May of 1945, Private Terry Moore of the 7th Infantry Division takes cover with his BAR as incoming Japanese artillery explodes nearby in the fight to take Okinawa
Survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, poses 2 years after the bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, 1947
Joseph Stalin wearing a traditional Mongolian deel, 1936.
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John Howard Griffin posing as a black man in the Deep South as part of an experiment to see life and segregation from the other side of the colour line. He later published a book about it titled Black Like Me, 1959
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“Americans give us something to eat or we won’t forget Hitler” German graffiti during winter food shortages in Munich (1946)(1400×933)
1st Lt. Thomas Meehan of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on his wedding day in 1942. Meehan was KIA on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
80 years ago today, General Patton during a welcome home parade in Los Angeles – June 9, 1945
Emancipated children in the south during the Civil War – there’s got to be an interesting story here. 1863. .
Anti-MLK/Civil rights cartoon from ‘The Birmingham News’ paper. c.~1960s
Fannie Virginia Cassiopeia Lawrence a “Redeemed Slave” Child with her adoptive mother Catherine Lawrence. She was given to Lawrence when her Mother chose to stay in enslaved because she had a husband and other small children still not free and no one else was able take her in.
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