“Why we must have a League of Nations” American cartoon about Germany not being allowed in the new League of Nations after WW1 (1919)

Parisian mothers cover their children from German snipers 1944

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)

Soldiers of the Swedish Landstorm guarding the coast, Furuskär, ca. 1916

One of the only known photos of Subha Talfah, the mother of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taken sometime in the 1950’s or 60’s. Subha unsuccessfully tried to abort Saddam before he was born. (594×424)