WW2

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  ATF agent John Osburg with a gun and a Nazi flag confiscated from Operation Red Dog conspirators. The conspirators were white supremacists trying to sail to Dominica and stage a paid coup there. April 1981

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  Adolf Hitler in a class photo in 1901 (back row, farthest right)

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  Original color photograph of “Armored Knights” participating in the “2000 years of German Culture” exhibition organized by the Nazis in Munich, 1937. (986×1185)

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  7 Oct 1943, Ottla Kafka, beloved sister of author Franz Kafka, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid

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  (Date unknown, ww2 era) Stalin as a lion tamer whipping the nazi leadership

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  Clemens August Graf von Galen, the German Catholic Bishop who openly resisted Nazi rule (c. 1940)

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

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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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  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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  My hometown in Brazil also has a WW2 monument

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  Joseph Goebbels glares at Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1933.

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  1939A hard defence to crack, Britain WWII(1939)

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