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  18 year old GI John Wauthier with his BAR near Bütgenbach Belgium, January 1945. He survived the war and married Ursula Ann Hoffman, they had ten kids together. John passed away at the age of 71 on Nov 7, 1997 and is buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Cecil, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

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  ‘Try to negotiate with THAT!’ — British cartoon from the Second World War (May 1940) criticising anti-war activists. Drawn by Philip Zec for the Daily Mirror.

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  A photo of the aftermath of the Sétif and Guelma massacre. Immediately after the end of the war in Europe, the French embarked on a mass killing of Algerian independence protesters. Ironically, the massacre started on V.E. Day. Overall, 6,000 to 30,000 people were killed, 1945 .

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  A 1943 short film, titled “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” depicts Donald Duck trapped within the Nazi war machine, forced to work in a munitions factory assembling artillery shells

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  Lepa Radic, a 17 year old Serbian girl about to be hanged. She was asked by the Nazis where her accomplices were to which she replied, “You’ll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.” (1943)

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  “Hitler election poster”

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  The beach on Guadalcanal in 1951, six years after WWII ended. (LIFE Magazine Archives – Howard Sochurek Photographer)

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  ”The fists of the Allies breaking the Nazi swastika”, France, 1945

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  1925 photo of Adolf Josef Langz, Austrian monk and occult white supremacist who was one of the earliest figures in the history of Aryan fascism. He founded the first white supremacist group to use the Swastika as a symbol and eventually described Hitler as being of “inferior racial stock.” (620×620)

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  “A study in Empires”. A nazi Germany poster from 1940.

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  Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972

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  Palestinian boy confronts Israeli tank in Dheisheh refugee camp (Palestinian West Bank), 2 July 2002.

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  Fearing capture by US troops after Nazi defeat, Major Walter Doenicke of the Volkssturm lies dead next to a torn picture of Hitler after ingesting cyanide

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  USS Kearsarge (BB-5) illuminated with electric lights, while visiting Portsmough, England in July 1903.

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  “Hitler came the closest” American poster, artist Boris Artzybasheff, 1943

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  “Section of human skin preserved as ornament. Found at Buchenwald. Evidence submitted by American Prosecution at War Crimes Trial in Nuremberg of 21 top Nazis.” ca. 1945 – 1946.

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  G Gordon Liddy, FBI agent & Watergate culprit known for his macho antics, in 1964. Liddy had a habit of putting his hand over a lit flame to test his pain endurance, & supposedly sang the Nazi anthem upon entering prison to demonstrate his fearlessness. He never apologized for Watergate (2346×2928)

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  Dead Soviet soldier clutching a grenade, June 1941 in Belarus.

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  My Great Great Grandfather in his WW1 uniform. He was born today in 1868.

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  Survivors searching for relatives massacred by roving Nazi murder squads. Kerch, Crimea. January 1942.

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