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Lynching postcard from Texas (1908) 1080×1691

Joe Arridy, the ‘happiest prisoner on death row’, gives away his train before being executed, 1939

Ernst Röhm and Adolf Hitler inspecting the Sturmabteilung in 1933, Röhm is considered to be the first widely recognized gay political figure in the world.

\America First by Dr Seuss/ (1941)

Last known photo of Hitler at the entrance to the Bunker where he died hours later 1945

War

Jewish-American soldiers conduct services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Germany on March 18, 1945.
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Soviets open the tomb of Timur in Uzbekistan, the Mongol founder of the Timurid Empire, which apparently started a curse a week before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Timur was reburied a month before the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, which apparently ended the curse. (June 1941)(900×600)
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French soldiers from the 157th Alpine Rifle Regiment bury their comrades in a shell crater in Bouzonville, France. September, 1914.
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Actor John Wayne visiting US troops in the Philippines, 1958. The man standing in the doorway in the background of the photo is a young Lee Harvey Oswald. (605×600)
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Exhausted German soldiers sprinkled with water to cool off after a long training march in France
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German troops setting up beach defences run as an RAF reconnaissance plane flies overhead, Normandy, June 1944
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The German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk: an official ceremony held by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on September 22, 1939, during the invasion of Poland
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Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs the documents for the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, ending 5 years and 8 months of war in Europe. May 8th 1945
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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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