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In 1946 Marilyn Monroe worked as a pin-up girl and charged $10 an hour to be photographed as reference for images that were turned into paintings. This is an example of one of the more ‘safe for work’ images. (1080×960)
Soviet Politician Lavrentiy Beria with Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, USSR, 1930s (767×1000)
Volcanologist David A. Johnston, pictured 13 hours before he lost his life during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was the first to report the eruption from an observation post 6 miles away, transmitting ‘Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!’ before being overtaken by the blast
Car Sharing is a ‘Must’! 1942.
Hampton Lee, 24, Hugh Evans, 22, and Willis Evans, 18, are taken into custody for harassing a woman returning home from a party late at night, beating her male friend unconscious for trying to intervene, then kidnapping, robbing, and gang-raping her (South Carolina, September 22, 1940) .

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  • Wounded German soldiers listen to Joseph Goebbels’ “Total War” speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, February 1943 (1220×941)
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  • 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
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  • “South Tyrol, Don’t Forget It!” Austrian poster about the Italianization of South Tyrol under Benito Mussolini, showing a Roman soldier and an enslaved Germanic man (1920s)
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  • The Terror of War, also known as Napalm Girl, is a photograph taken on 8 June 1972. It features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops.
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  • American soldiers paying tribute to the 8 million horses, mules and donkeys that died transporting supplies in WW1, 1918.
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  • A WW2 era Mercedes-Benz propaganda poster showcasing their contributions to the German war machine.
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  • A Japanese soldier beheads a Chinese man after the capture of Nanking in 1937.
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  • Recently liberated American prisoners of war at Aomori camp near Yokohama, Japan, circa 29 Aug 1945
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  • Tactical trick of soldiers during the Mexican Revolution, 1913.
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  • SS troops loot winter boots from killed American soldiers during the Ardennes Offensive, December 1944
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  • German soldier returns home from war only to find his house in ruin and his family perished. Frankfurt, 1946.
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  • Magda Goebbels, wife of Reichminister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, and her 6 children, 1942. All 6 would be murdered by their parents on 1 May 1945 as Soviet troops closed in on the Führerbunker in Berlin.
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  • Photo of postwar deportations of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia. They wear an “N” on their clothes that stands for “Němec,” which means German. (January 1946)(1280×1206)
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  • US soldiers of the 87th Infantry Division trample on a portrait of Hitler in Koblenz, Germany, March 1945.
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  • Finnish soldiers relax in a sauna during the Winter War, 1939 (910×891)
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  • German Shepherd in uniform posed by German soldier, early 1940s
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  • Photo of the charred corpse of a prisoner who attempted to escape a burning barn, which had been set on fire by the Volkssturm and Hitler Youth, Germany, April 1945 (1101×1391)
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  • Photograph entitled ‘Wait for Me, Daddy’. It shows a child running to his father, a Canadian soldier, before being deployed during The Second World War. Behind you can see his mother. October 1, 1940.
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  • This is how a man and wife slept in 1947. Simmons Beautyrest with prewar quality!
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  • A dying man in Buchenwald was given a cigarette by an American soldier during liberation, Germany 1945.
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  • Volcanologist David A. Johnston, pictured 13 hours before he lost his life during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was the first to report the eruption from an observation post 6 miles away, transmitting ‘Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!’ before being overtaken by the blast
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