War

War means suffering, for anyone even near it. It's pointless.
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Ustasha!!! - Page 2
Father Petar "Pero" Brzica (born ca. 1917) one of the guards in the Jasenovac concentration camp. He held the rank of Lieutenant. He is notorious for having won a contest in which he used a curve-bladed knife, also called a srbosjek, to kill newly-arrived concentration camp prisoners. Brzica boasted of winning the contest by killing the largest number of prisoners - 1360 people. Source: http://nekropole.info/en/Petar-Brzica In case of reproduction the hyperlink to source is mandatory.
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Yad Vashem: the page is not found
Warsaw, Poland. Rovenek Reisfus, nephew of the submitter, 1938. Perished in the Holocaust
John Withers. The Black World War II veteran risked a dishonorable discharge and the loss of his academic career in order to hide and save two dying Jewish teens he liberated from the Dachau concentration camp. They were reunited decades later, sharing their experiences with their families. People, Ww2, Military History, World War Ii, American Heroes, World War Two, Army Supply, Honor
John L. Withers, 91; Sheltered Two Young Victims of WWII
John Withers. The Black World War II veteran risked a dishonorable discharge and the loss of his academic career in order to hide and save two dying Jewish teens he liberated from the Dachau concentration camp. They were reunited decades later, sharing their experiences with their families.
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The Civil War, Part 2: The People
Confederate Soldiers on the march through enemy occupied Frederick, Maryland in 1862. This is a very rare photo.
a group of men in hats and suits posing for a photo with one holding a cup
Confederate Soldiers, 1861. (fineartamerica.com)
a group of men standing next to each other wearing uniforms and holding baseball bats in their hands
African American Civil War Soldiers
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Vietnam War AN PRC-25 RTO (Around 1967)
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Another creepy photo of Hitler with a child: Twelve-year-old Helga Goebbels, who was killed by her parents in the Berlin bunker as the Nazi empire crumbled. Joseph Goebbels, Chancellor, Deutschland, Luftwaffe, Nazi Propaganda
Another creepy photo of Hitler with a child: Twelve-year-old Helga Goebbels, who was killed by her parents in the Berlin bunker as the Nazi empire crumbled.
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Magda Goebbels - Wikipedia
Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels, wife of Dr Paul Joseph Goebbels, Germany's Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. After the Soviet Red Army entered Berlin, she was offered to have her children (Helga, Hilde, Helmut, Holde, Hedda and Heide) escape the bunker. She refused. "I would rather have my children die, than live in disgrace, jeered at". She drugged them with morphine and then killed them by cyanide. She and Joseph Goebbels then committed suicide.
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Goebbels children
two men are hugging each other in front of a brick wall and trees, while another man is wearing a hat
A Polish man embraces an Allied soldier, kissing his cheek, after...
April 1945: A Polish man embraces an Allied soldier, kissing his cheek, after being liberated from a Nazi forced labor camp in Germany during World War II. (Photo by Tony Vaccaro/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Two interned Roma boys play violins for departing and arriving detainees at a camp (possibly Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp or Pithiviers internment camp) in German-occupied France. The genocide of Roma people cost the lives approximately 220,000 to 1,500,000, most of whom died in concentration camps, with thousands more interned in camps and ghettos throughout occupied territories. France. Circa 1940-1944.
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Ukrainians from Kovel taken to Germany to work as slave labourers (Ostarbeiter) Read more: http://histomil.com
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Stolen by the Nazis: The tragic tale of 12,000 blue-eyed blond children taken by the SS to create an Aryan super-race
Stolen by the Nazis: The tragic tale of 12,000 blue-eyed blond children taken by the SS to create an Aryan super-race Folker Heinecke
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A teenager German gunner receives a pat down after surrendering to the US Army near Berlin, April 1945. Note the boy standing on the right who is wearing army boots but civilian clothing waiting his turn.