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Japanese soldiers waiting in line outside a ‘comfort station’. Occupied China, late 1930s-early 1940s.
The Parade of the Vanquished
A photo of inventor Franz Reichelt just before his death after jumping off the first deck of the Eiffel Tower, 187 feet or 57 meters above ground (February 4th, 1912) .
In 1939, during the Winter War, Finnish soldiers positioned the frozen body of a Soviet soldier as part of psychological warfare.

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  • Feminists’ satirical poster from 1915 arguing against men’s voting rights
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  • Tibetan monks with Czechoslovak motorcycle Jawa 250 in 1956. Czechoslovakia donated as gift two motorcycles Jawa 250 to Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. In return, Czechoslovak delegation received as a gift two Leopard pups. (720×960)
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  • ‘The Greens in the European Parliament!’ (German poster by unknown artist for the German green party campaign (die Grünen) in the 1984 European Parliament election. Federal Republic of Germany, 1984).
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  • 1979 ad by a Pakistani airline about flying to New York.
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  • Wilhelm Dorr, formerly an SS warden in Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Dora-Mittelbau, and Bergen-Belsen, is forced to make an announcement for a British newsreel while standing in front of a truck filled with prisoners’ corpses. 1945 (1251 x 1200)
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  • Distant cousin fixing the wheel on the car. Early 1920s. One hundred years ago!
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  • One of the propaganda poster from the Turkish War of Independence. The occupied territories are delineated by borders, Turkish woman is thinking sadly in front of the Istanbul skyline. 1920
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  • German President Paul Von Hindenburg inspecting troops, 1920s-30s. Hindenburg was the last leader of Germany before Adolf Hitler, and in 1933 he played a crucial role in the Nazis coming to power, appointing Hitler chancellor under intense political pressure. (1292×896)
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  • This summer, MORE women are turning to MEDS! 1941
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  • A woman and a baby smiling for the camera. Early 1900s.
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  • Albert Göring, younger brother of the infamous Hermann Göring in 1940. Serving as the export director of Škoda Works he would use his position and brothers reputation to save over hundreds of jews during WW2 as well as avoid four arrest and one death warrant.
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  • Marines on Iwo Jima when they got word that the Japanese had surrendered, March 1945
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  • German cartoon from the Second World War (ca. 1943) showing an Englishman enjoying his garden unaware of the Soviet train speeding towards him.
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  • A Dutch woman refused to leave her husband, a German soldier, and goes with him to Allied captivity. Walcheren, November 1944
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  • “She’s so lucky…has three phones!” Bell, 1950s
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  • My PopPop in 1974 (with the white tshirt)
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  • My great uncle Eugene and his wife Virginia on their wedding day. Guessing late 1930s, not sure.
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  • “Symphony of the 6th Blast Furnace” – Soviet Union, 1979 (by E. Sedukhin)
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  • A father and son from the same German regiment reading a letter from their wife and mother, 1915. The son is a volunteer in the same company in which his father is a regular.
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  • My brother, circa 1970
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