German Chancellor Adolf Hitler announces Germany’s resignation from the League of Nations in a radio address to the German people. This was followed by a referendum with the majority approving. (October 1933)(783×1080)

My mother and her three sisters on a ship to or from Ireland (from US), late 1940’s

My great grandparents on their 65th wedding anniversary April 23, 1981. They were married 72 years until she passed in May 1988.

A Cossack policeman, to the amusement of Hungarian soldiers, slashes a captured Soviet partisan with a saber, occupied Ukraine SSR, September 1941 (800×607)

Governments of the Soviet Union and Empire of Japan sign the Neutrality Pact on April 13, 1941, a 5 year agreement of nonaggression. Later terminated by the Soviet side in 1945 because of the Yalta agreements (780×520)