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Lyndon B. Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so that John F. Kennedy could speak as Kennedy is seen trying to calm him down. Taken during the 1960 presidential campaign in Amarillo, Texas.
A 1934 Finnish police photo of Aarne Kauhanen. During the Continuation War, he was in charge of monitoring foreigners. Kauhanen used his position to torture refugees, especially Jews. He fled to Venezuela after the war, only to later be recognized and killed by one of his victims there .
‘Racism tears Britain apart.’ – 2002 NUS/UJS Poster
Japanese high school students playing mahjong and injecting methamphetamine (Hiropon, ヒロポン) (ca. 1950)
Crews working to remove Dale Earnhardt from his vehicle, following the fatal crash on the last turn of the 199th lap of the Daytona 500 – on February 18th, 2001. (660 x 473)
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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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  • 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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