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Isaac and Rosa. A black boy and a white girl who were both slaves in the state of Louisiana. Circa 1860. (773×1130)

Workers power, not black power, not white power (Labor party of America 1968)

Russian President Vladimir Putin places a wreath at Ground Zero in New York City, 16 November 2001.

Races of Mankind (1910)

A 116-year-old U.S. Civil War veteran on his deathbed with a cigar in his teeth. Houston, Texas, 1959.

War

On this day in April 1945, Dachau was liberated. Horrified and outraged by the sight of massed corpses and starving survivors, American troops and freed prisoners promptly carried out reprisals against the remaining guards. Roughly 35 to 50 SS guards were summarily executed .
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‘This is not war for oil! This is war on terrorism!’, depicting George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin. Seppo Leinonen, 2003.
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Soviet soldiers celebrating the victory over Germany at the Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945 (1799×1227)
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‘Russian troops root out another Chechen terrorist’, with a Russian soldier holding a baby by its leg infront of a city in ruins. 26/10/1999.
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American cartoon from the Second World War (1941) showing Mussolini spending twenty years preparing for war only to complain in 1941: ‘We weren’t ready!’
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The corpse of Mussolini, April 30, 1945
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Heinz Barth, a former German SS officer, in East German court being charged with massacring an entire French village during WW2. Sentenced to life imprisonment, but was later awarded a ‘war victim’ pension and released in reunited Germany. (1983)(612×489)
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Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq, March 31, 2003
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Exiled former German Emperor Wilhelm II (door), greeting German soldiers during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He gave himself credit for the success of the German military in WW2 before dying in June 1941 (photo May 1940)(640×410)
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‘Come out you cuckold | Cuckolds we come!’ – Flag from the english civil war, (obverse & reverse), Carried by Sir Horatio Cary, referring to Robert Devereux, the 3rd Earl of Essex. 1642
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Panzer IV tank abandoned after backing up into a house for cover during combat in north Italy
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Jozef Tiso, the former president of the Slovak Republic during WW2, in court arguing his defense that he doesn’t remember anything as president. He was later hanged for war crimes and state treason (1947)(1280×1280)
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ROK Military Police, KPA POW’s, and civilians recovering the bodies of dead Koreans that were massacred by retreating KPA troops in Hamhung during the Korean War, 1950
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Bodies of suspected communists massacred by the South Korean troops and police. Between 60-200 thousand people were executed under watch of US troops. The event remained tabboo for 40 years. Bodo League Massacre, South Korea, 1950
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A U. S. tank carrying the bodies of fallen Marines moves out, following hand-to-hand combat with North Vietnamese troops near Con Thien, July 1967
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Soviet soldier photographed wearing an SN-42 Steel breastplate body armor with three bullet impacts
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Photo of Jews, accused of being involved with the NKVD, before being massacred by Lithuanian paramilitaries and German soldiers in Lietūkis garage, June 1941 (1771×1200)
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World War II war correspondent Ernie Pyle shortly after he was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on the island of Ie Shima on April 18, 1945.
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A Soviet soldier announcing the formal surrender of defeated Germany on the streets of Berlin, May 1945 (1140×750)
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“Parade of the Defeated” German POWs captured by Soviet soldiers during Operation Bagration, being paraded and mocked in Moscow (July 1944)(1300×874)
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