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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An elderly German Volkssturm member holds his outdated Mannlicher rifle that he was issued, October 1944 (1024×1400)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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  • Soviet flamethrower soldiers fight for the city of Küstrin 03/12/1945. Photo by A. Kapustyansky
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  • German soldiers sleep after moving from Holland to Belgium. May 1940
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  • German soldiers in Russia 1942 January
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  • UK, WW2
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  • Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s private secretary, relaxes on the terrace at the Berghof, Hitler’s vacation home on the Obersalzberg, 1943.
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  • Totally Straight Navy sub recruitment, US, 1943
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  • “We will finish off the Nazi invaders in their den!” USSR, 1944
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  • Fritz Loew, a 41-year-old German prisoner of war who was captured at Metz. January 1945.
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  • A cousin of mine was killed on the first day of Operation Cobra on July 26, 1944, when his tank took a direct hit. He was a veteran of the invasions of Sicily & North Africa where he earned the DSC for valor. He served with the 66th Armored Regiment of the 2nd Armored Division. Humbling.
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  • Political cartoon about Russian support of Bashar Al Assad during the Syrian Civil War, 2012
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  • 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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  • One of the only known photos ever taken of British Queen Victoria smiling, 1897. Despite her reputation as a serious, humorless monarch (epitomized by the apocryphal quote ‘We are not amused’) those close to her considered the Queen to have quite a sense of humor. (1727×1348)
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