WW2

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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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  Nazis cutting off earlocks of a Jewish man, Kraków 1939-1945

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  “Good work, sister: we never figured you could do a man-size job!” – American WW2 Poster. Packer, 1944.

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  Your average PSA during WWII.

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  I found this photograph of a Nazi at a thrift store in New York

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  The Egyptian paper Al-Ithnayn wa al-Dunya mistakenly believed that Hitler would not be able to conquer Poland and would be stuck there. “He cannot swallow it.” September 18, 1939

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  WW2 German death card for a German cross in gold winner

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  A female Soviet soldier captured by the Wehrmacht. 1941

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  Rudolf Spanner made soap out of human fat in Danzig during ww2

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  A photo of the swearing-in of the Austrian Nazi government of Arthur Seyss-Inquart following the Anschluss. Anton Reinthaller (fourth from the right) served as the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. After the war, he would found the far-right Freedom Party of Austria, Vienna, 1938 .

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  Nazi postcard depicting a global struggle between National Socialism and Communism. Text at top right reads: ‘Follow this sign and you will win’. (Germany, 1930)

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  Identification of the corpse , 2-6 May 1945. Photo by Morozov

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  “The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Isherwood (DD-520) steams off Ie Shima, during the fighting there in mid-April 1945.” Original color WWII photo of artillery shells hitting Japanese positions on the island of Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa, April 1945.

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  “At a rest stop.” Frenchmen liberated by Soviet troops from Nazi camps are returning to their homeland. 1945. Photo by Ryumkin.

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  Young German soldier WW2

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  On the right in the photo is Ilyin Nikolai Yakovlevich, sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union. He was killed in action on August 4, 1943. He finished with a totally of 494, making him one of the best snipers of WW2.

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  Jewish mothers walking with children past the barracks and the electrified barbed wire destined for the gas chambers at Auschwitz on May 27th, 1944.

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  ”The Hun Cowardly Bully at Work” – Canadian cartoon (artist: Arthur George Racey) showing Hitler punching the Angel of Peace, 1938

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  Two astronauts laugh with Pad Leader Gunther Wendt at Kennedy Space Center a few hours before the launch of Apollo 14. The helmet was a ‘gag gift’ from the astronauts, referring to Wendt’s service in the Luftwaffe during World War 2. January 31, 1971.

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  Munition workers of Allied countries are hitting back at Hitler through British factories! – British WW2 poster.

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