War

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  One of the propaganda poster from the Turkish War of Independence. The occupied territories are delineated by borders, Turkish woman is thinking sadly in front of the Istanbul skyline. 1920

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  German President Paul Von Hindenburg inspecting troops, 1920s-30s. Hindenburg was the last leader of Germany before Adolf Hitler, and in 1933 he played a crucial role in the Nazis coming to power, appointing Hitler chancellor under intense political pressure. (1292×896)

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  Albert Göring, younger brother of the infamous Hermann Göring in 1940. Serving as the export director of Škoda Works he would use his position and brothers reputation to save over hundreds of jews during WW2 as well as avoid four arrest and one death warrant.

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  German cartoon from the Second World War (ca. 1943) showing an Englishman enjoying his garden unaware of the Soviet train speeding towards him.

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  A Dutch woman refused to leave her husband, a German soldier, and goes with him to Allied captivity. Walcheren, November 1944

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  1940 portrait of Hugo Sperrle, Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe. He survived WWII and was tried at Nuremberg, but was acquitted (2782×3780)

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  The Nuremberg trials: the Nazis’ last line of defense // Soviet Union // 1945

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  American soldier returning home from The Great War, ca 1918-19

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  Catholic cartoon showing the graves of Stalin, Hitler, Bismarck, Attila and Nero all engraved with the words ‘I will destroy the Church’. USA, March 1953.

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  NAZI -> NATO (Christian Hans Herluf Bidstrup, 1958)

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  French anti-Franco postcard (1946) showing a blood-soaked Nazi skeleton casting its shadow over France from Spain.

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  After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, some sailors were trapped on the USS West Virginia and the USS Oklahoma. One group of men survived 16 days, which they tallied on the wall of the storeroom where they were trapped. No one wanted guard duty because of the incessant banging and screaming.

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  King Neptune oversees a “Line crossing ceremony” for crossing the Equator on USS Lexington CV-16 in Early 1944. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are called Shellbacks or Sons of Neptune. Those who have not yet crossed the Equator are nicknamed Pollywogs.

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  Stalin in a meeting with his generals (1930’s, nazi germany)

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  German war criminals laugh at a translation mistake during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945. (962 x 709)

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  “My torturer is on the loose!” Soviet poster about victims of the Nazi concentration camps. 1965.

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  Dead Italian soldier holding a photograph of his child, north Africa, 1940, WWII

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  Indian soldiers scouting Pakistani positions in Kashmir during the 1999 Kargil War

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  1926 photo of Eduard Bloch, Jewish Austrian physician who was the Hitler family’s personal doctor. He treated Adolf Hitler’s mother for breast cancer, reducing or outright eliminating her medical bills. Hitler later declared him an “honorary Aryan” & allowed him to escape to the US. (379×445)

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  British cartoon showing Churchill embracing the Soviet bear during the Second World War, but condemning it in the interwar and postwar periods, 1946.

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