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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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  President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, speaking to the crowds. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. November 19, 1863

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  WW2 German death card for a German cross in gold winner

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  Loading 406 mm shells in the main guns of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson

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  American soldier who was a German POW for three months (April 1945)

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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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  Original poster promoting Mussolini’s invasion of the horn of Africa, 1935

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  German soldier in his trench not too fond of the Italian sunshine in 1944

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  An American infantry camp in Russia during the Siberian Expedition. The troops were part of the Allied intervention on the side of the Whites during the Russian Civil War, Siberia, December 1918 .

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  A Jewish man holds the starved corpse of an infant in the Warsaw Ghetto (1941) (NSFL)

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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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  Benito Mussolini’s corpse laying in a pine wood coffin, 1945

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  German troops inspecting a British Daimler Scout Car captured during the failed raid on Dieppe, France, late Aug 1942

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  A Supermarine Walrus amphibian airplane being catapulted from the RN light cruiser HMS Bermuda

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  Vapor trails over Kent, England after an aerial dogfight during the Battle of Britain, September 3, 1940.

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  U.S. Marines – “Soldiers of the sea” (Bruce Moore; between 1914 and 1918)

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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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  Barracuda aircraft landing on HMS Formidable after attacking Tirpitz, Norwegian Sea, Aug 1944

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  Chinese propaganda leaflet dropped onto US troops during the Korean War

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