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Staged photograph of the execution of a communist during street fighting during an attempted coup d’etat. Munich, 1919.
An elderly German Volkssturm member holds his outdated Mannlicher rifle that he was issued, October 1944 (1024×1400)
“Teenagers pushing a Ford Model T to get it started, their favorite ride that could carry up to 12 friends, as they head out to a football game,” 1944.
North Korean propaganda painting depicting North Korean and Russian soldiers together holding North Korean and Russian flags. Not sure but probably from the last few years so 2020s
These photographs are practically the last evidence of the ‘quiet’ life in Crimea. Exactly one year later, the Crimean Tatar people will be deported. Crimea, 1943 Magnum Photos/Herbert List Estate Creative Commons

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  • The Nuremberg trials: the Nazis’ last line of defense // Soviet Union // 1945
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  • American soldier returning home from The Great War, ca 1918-19
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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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  • After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, some sailors were trapped on the USS West Virginia and the USS Oklahoma. One group of men survived 16 days, which they tallied on the wall of the storeroom where they were trapped. No one wanted guard duty because of the incessant banging and screaming.
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  • King Neptune oversees a “Line crossing ceremony” for crossing the Equator on USS Lexington CV-16 in Early 1944. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are called Shellbacks or Sons of Neptune. Those who have not yet crossed the Equator are nicknamed Pollywogs.
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  • Stalin in a meeting with his generals (1930’s, nazi germany)
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  • German war criminals laugh at a translation mistake during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945. (962 x 709)
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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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  • Indian soldiers scouting Pakistani positions in Kashmir during the 1999 Kargil War
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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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  • British cartoon showing Churchill embracing the Soviet bear during the Second World War, but condemning it in the interwar and postwar periods, 1946.
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  • A child soldier being captured by American forces in Austria (1945)
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  • A Japanese magazine shows soldiers handing out candy to Chinese children. The magazine is from 1939.
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  • Grandparents after the War
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  • My hometown in Brazil also has a WW2 monument
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  • Siege (battle) of Leningrad: German sentinel next to a sign post ‘Where the german soldier stands is germany’ 01.dec.1941
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  • Soviet Russian invasion of Finland (British Cartoon, 1939)
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  • Chinese-American waitress Ruth Lee with a flag of China to make clear she is chinese and no Japanese and avoid harrasment, December 1941
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