WW2

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  Fanatical Japanese ultranationalist, mass murderer, and war criminal Hiroo Onoda finally surrenders. After World War II, he and others murdered up to 30 people in a 29-year terrorist campaign. Onoda would be pardoned for his crimes by the dictator Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines, 1974) .

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  ‘Hail Caesar! Those who are about to die salute you’, Allied flyer dropped over Italy, quoting the ancient Roman gladiatorial greeting and depicting Mussolini as Hitler’s puppet while Italian soldiers march off towards Russia, Libya and death, 1942

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  ‘These shameful deeds: your fault!’, US propaganda poster issued in occupied Germany immediately after WWII, meant to confront the population with Nazi atrocities and foster collective guilt as part of the denazification process, 1945

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  Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.

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  ‘Oh, what a pleasure to be a German SA boy!’—Austrian anti-Nazi propaganda alleging that the Nazis were homosexuals, early 1930s

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  Soviet New Year’s card from the Second World War (1942) showing Ded Moroz decorating his tree with Nazis.

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  ‘Hitler was a far – leftist. Contrary to the communist propaganda hitlerites had nothing in common with right – wing’, cover from a conservative magazine, Poland 2017.

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  Dutch Nazi movement members and shaven ‘Moffenmeids’ (women who had relationships with German occupiers) being publicly shamed after the liberation of The Netherlands, 1945.

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  Young Neo-Nazis salute Hitler at a rally in Chicago’s Marquette Park, in 1978. The “National Socialist Party of America” was led by Frank Collin, whose conviction on child sexual abuse charges a year later led to the collapse of the organization.

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  Soviet soldier wipes his boots with Nazi flag, Breslau, 1945

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  A photo taken of Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger shortly before he was sent to a concentration camp for child molestation. Dirlewanger was later freed due to his Nazi Party connections and placed in charge of a Waffen-SS unit composed mainly of convicted murderers and rapists (Germany, 1934) .

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  Adolf Hitler’s Walther PP (.32 ACP), a 50th-birthday gift from the Walther family in 1939, features gold inlays and ivory grips. It sold to a private collector in 1987 for $114,000 and is now estimated to be worth millions.

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  Auschwitz guards having a good time (1944) (1023×682)

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  Hitler says goodbye to Mussolini (they will never meet to again) Germany, 1944.

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  Roman Catholic priest Johann Nepomuk Kühberger, who as a four-year-old saved a boy his age who had fallen into the icy waters near the small town of Passau. According to locals, this boy was Adolf Hitler. Photo from the 1950s.

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  The Moment when Hitler declared war on the USA 1941, December 11th

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  Hitler’s drawings of potential Nazi logos, May 1920

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  Luftwaffe aces meet Hitler after an awards ceremony at the Berghof, 1944

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  ‘Every Canadian MUST fight!’ – WWII Poster – 1942

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  Winston Churchill perched on the remnants of Hitler’s chair in 1945.

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