War

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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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  Dead Soviet soldier clutching a grenade, June 1941 in Belarus.

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  My Great Great Grandfather in his WW1 uniform. He was born today in 1868.

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

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  The Pacific Navy (1907)

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  American soldiers surrender to the SS-Kampfgruppe Peiper . Stoumont, Belgium. 12/19/1944

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  Soviet flamethrower soldiers fight for the city of Küstrin 03/12/1945. Photo by A. Kapustyansky

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  German soldiers sleep after moving from Holland to Belgium. May 1940

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  German soldiers in Russia 1942 January

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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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  Totally Straight Navy sub recruitment, US, 1943

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

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  Fritz Loew, a 41-year-old German prisoner of war who was captured at Metz. January 1945.

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  A cousin of mine was killed on the first day of Operation Cobra on July 26, 1944, when his tank took a direct hit. He was a veteran of the invasions of Sicily & North Africa where he earned the DSC for valor. He served with the 66th Armored Regiment of the 2nd Armored Division. Humbling.

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  Political cartoon about Russian support of Bashar Al Assad during the Syrian Civil War, 2012

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  Physical training on the quarterdeck of the cruiser HMS Argonaut, Algeria, December 14-19, 1942.

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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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