War

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  Aftermath of the Dieppe Raid of August 19, 1943. Bodies of Canadian soldiers lying among wrecked landing craft and Churchill tank.

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  Robert Minor’s “At Last a Perfect Soldier”, 1916.

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  Poor Vietcong soldier vs rich South Vietnam soldier, South Vietnam’s leaflet. Vietnam war, date unknown.

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  British children taking shelter in a trench while watching an aerial battle overhead during the Battle of Britain on September 3, 1940.

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  Recruitment Cartoon for Māori soldiers, December 1915 New Zealand.

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  Kamikaze pilots posing for a signed group photo to immortalise them before their final suicide flights as guided flying missiles in the Pacific War against the American Fleet (1944)

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  “The result! Racial pride fades.” Nazi Germany, pre war (circa 1933-1939)

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  “The National Socialist State in the future will prevent people whose lives are not worth living from being born.” Nazi Germany, date unknown.

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  England, 1944. LtCol Frank Pritchard commanders, captains James Carr, Beauregard King, Robert Finley & and 1stLt Charles L. Thomas. 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

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  Goebbels’ burned corpse, May 1945

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  ”German Consensus – Father chooses Duesterberg. Mother chooses Hindenburg. Children choose Hitler” – German political cartoon from ”Kladderadatsch” magazine, March 1932

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  A Frenchwoman, believed to have been a prostitute, has her head shaved by French civilians to publicly mark her for reportedly collaborating with the Nazis (August 29, 1944)

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  Adolf Hitler meets a group of Hitlerjugend in the chancellery garden during his last public appearance on camera. He would kill himself a little more than a month later (20 March 1945)

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  “We Won” – Russian communist/anti-Putinist poster comparing the Putinist government to Vlasov’s Nazi collabs, Russia, 2010s

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  All that’s left of the Romanian cavalry after the Battle of Stalingrad.

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  18 year old GI John Wauthier with his BAR near Bütgenbach Belgium, January 1945. He survived the war and married Ursula Ann Hoffman, they had ten kids together. John passed away at the age of 71 on Nov 7, 1997 and is buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Cecil, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

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  ‘Try to negotiate with THAT!’ — British cartoon from the Second World War (May 1940) criticising anti-war activists. Drawn by Philip Zec for the Daily Mirror.

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  A photo of the aftermath of the Sétif and Guelma massacre. Immediately after the end of the war in Europe, the French embarked on a mass killing of Algerian independence protesters. Ironically, the massacre started on V.E. Day. Overall, 6,000 to 30,000 people were killed, 1945 .

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  A 1943 short film, titled “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” depicts Donald Duck trapped within the Nazi war machine, forced to work in a munitions factory assembling artillery shells

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  Lepa Radic, a 17 year old Serbian girl about to be hanged. She was asked by the Nazis where her accomplices were to which she replied, “You’ll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.” (1943)

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