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A mass grave at the Pilice collective farm near Srebrenica in 1996

‘Anyone who disturbes the peace of Germans will be shot!’ German poster at occupied territories, date unknown

In 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer was arrested after killing two people in San Diego, California. When asked why she did it, she replied, ‘I just don’t like Mondays.”

Two Soviet soldiers sitting together Circa 1970

An executioner from India in 1903.

War

German troops assaulting soviet positions in Stalingrad, 1942
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One of the Sonderkommando photographs: Women on their way to the gas chamber, Auschwitz II, August 1944 (1257 × 814)
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A soldier with a Panzerfaust from the Panzer Division Hermann Göring smiling to the camera, Russia, 1944.
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After the Battle of Saipan, Marines found the body of Japanese Lt. General Yoshige Saito in a cave and gave him a funeral with full military honors. Here they prepare to lower his flag-draped coffin into its resting place. 13 July, 1944 (Official USMC Archives photo)
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A British soldier looks down at the burnt corpse of a German Fallschirmjäger killed during the first stages of Operation Mercury. 20 May 1941, Crete.
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WW2 Nakajima Kikka in late 1945, 1st Japanese turbojet aircraft. Interestingly it was a IJN plane, although for pure metropolitan defense, the IJN had no operational carriers and barely experienced pilots. Still envisioned foldable wings (to hide in caves) and only 1 prototype flew on 7-Aug-1945
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Bernhard Sindberg posing with Chinese soldiers during the Battle of Shanghai, 1937
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Soviet soldier alongside his comrade in Afghanistan (1980s)
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Question about this famous photo from the invasion of Algeria
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An allied soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to have a bath in the port city of Tobruk Libya. 17 February 1942.
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German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper embarking troops for the invasion of Norway, April 6th 1940
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“Thank you Kiwis for defending our man rights.”, Guy Body, cartoon relating to the War in Afghanistan and New Zealand involvement, 2009.
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A US Navy diver, covered in oil after returning from the USS Arizona after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 1941
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US M1911 struck by a bullet from a Japanese MG during the Battle of Okinawa
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Dead USN sailor, Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941
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My great uncle with his girlfriend before he went to war and died in 1941.
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A dead German soldier lies on a corner in Stavelot, Belgium, on 2 January 1945.
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A Soviet poster from 1944 depicting legions of German soldiers fated to die in the Russian winter thanks to Hitler’s orders.
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Final resting place of an Unknown English Soldier near Arnhem Bridge 1945.
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These two WW2 propaganda posters, 1950s
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