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A poor rural family standing at attention for RFK’s funeral train, June 8, 1968

Vladimir Lenin’s last photo. He had had three strokes at this point and was completely mute, 1923

The Nine Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII, photographed on 20 May 1910

The Cross Was Not Heavy Enough by John Heartfield, 1933

This is what the Titanic’s first class menu looked like the day it sunk (1912).

War

Physical training on the quarterdeck of the cruiser HMS Argonaut, Algeria, December 14-19, 1942.
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Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division suffering a hangover after celebrating V-E Day at Hitler’s “Eagles Nest” (where they “liberated” a collection of 10,000 bottles of liquor, wine, and champagne amassed by Hermann Göring) in Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1945.
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“I need a couple guys what don’t owe me no money fer a little routine patrol.” Cartoon of soldiers during WWII, 1939-1945.
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Nazis cutting off earlocks of a Jewish man, Kraków 1939-1945
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“Good work, sister: we never figured you could do a man-size job!” – American WW2 Poster. Packer, 1944.
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15-year-old Hans-Georg Henke breaks down from combat shock, World War Two, 1945.
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“The Unknown Soldier… The Known Soldier…” 2014
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Your average PSA during WWII.
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I found this photograph of a Nazi at a thrift store in New York
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The Egyptian paper Al-Ithnayn wa al-Dunya mistakenly believed that Hitler would not be able to conquer Poland and would be stuck there. “He cannot swallow it.” September 18, 1939
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President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, speaking to the crowds. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. November 19, 1863
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WW2 German death card for a German cross in gold winner
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Loading 406 mm shells in the main guns of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson
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American soldier who was a German POW for three months (April 1945)
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A female Soviet soldier captured by the Wehrmacht. 1941
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Rudolf Spanner made soap out of human fat in Danzig during ww2
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Original poster promoting Mussolini’s invasion of the horn of Africa, 1935
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German soldier in his trench not too fond of the Italian sunshine in 1944
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An American infantry camp in Russia during the Siberian Expedition. The troops were part of the Allied intervention on the side of the Whites during the Russian Civil War, Siberia, December 1918 .
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A Jewish man holds the starved corpse of an infant in the Warsaw Ghetto (1941) (NSFL)
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