War

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  ‘Anti-fascist Spaniards salute the forces of liberation,” Deported Spanish Republicans (from Spain and France exiled) welcome US soldiers after the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, May 1945 (1280×1021)

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  A Cossack policeman, to the amusement of Hungarian soldiers, slashes a captured Soviet partisan with a saber, occupied Ukraine SSR, September 1941 (800×607)

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  The Japanese military delegation (one IJA officer and one IJN officer) attending the Red Square victory parade, June 24, 1945. The USSR was not at war with Japan, and Japan sent an awkward delegation to attend the ceremony commemorating the defeat of their German ally.

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  painting of Saddam Hussein with his republican guards planning for war on Kuwait, circa 1990.

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  Ferenc Szálasi, leader of the Kingdom of Hungary (1944-1945) and Arrow Cross Party during WW2, is garroted for high treason and war crimes in Budapest. He died a slow death (March 12, 1946)(555×384)

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  Soviet soldiers sexually harass a German woman in Leipzig, Soviet occupied East Germany (August 1945)(1212×1600)

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  West German Chancellor Willy Brandt at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Poland, showing remorse for German atrocities against Jews during the uprising and war (1970)(1199×674)

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  “The deserter” – American anti – war illustration, 1916

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  German machine gunner fires MG34 strapped to the shoulder of a fellow soldier on the Eastern Front

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  US soldiers play a game of darts during their free time in England, awaiting D-Day, June 1944.

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  A German soldier says farewell to his son before leaving for the front, c. 1940

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  British soldier receiving painful injection from a nurse along the Russian front

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  The girls boldly sit on the tractor and give the soldiers a confident order: – Beat the fascists boldly and skillfully. And we will replace you. USSR 1941

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  French, Polish, and Norwegian troops search German prisoners captured near Narvik, April 1940

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  Monument to fallen soldiers on the Mound of Glory in Nova Odessa, Ukrainian SSR. 1980s

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  Quadruple 14-inch (356 mm) turret of the battleship HMS King George V under construction. April 1940

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  WW2 South African fighter pilot ace (with 35 nazi aircraft kills), Adolph ‘Sailor’ Malan, being carried by fellow veterans to one of the earliest major anti-apartheid protests. ~1952, South Africa.

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  Dr Norman Bethune operating on an injured soldier in the Songyan Kou model ward, Wutai, date approximately 1938-1939, photographed by Sha Fei

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  German prisoners of war support wounded American soldiers near Colmar, France, February 4, 1945.

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  During the siege of Leningrad in 1943, Belle the hippo survived the war thanks to her caretaker, Yevdokia Dashina.

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