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44 Amazing Photos Showing the Tremendous Tragedy of the Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy ofContinue reading “44 Amazing Photos Showing the Tremendous Tragedy of the Holocaust”

The Story Behind the Photo of Winston Churchill With Cigar and Tommy Gun in July 1940

The photograph of Winston Churchill with the Thompson submachine gun was taken during his visit to the coastal defense positions near Hartlepool on 31 July, 1940. The interesting thing about this picture is that both the British and the Germans used it for propaganda purposes. The British edited out two soldiers standing next to Churchill,Continue reading “The Story Behind the Photo of Winston Churchill With Cigar and Tommy Gun in July 1940”

50 Amazing Vintage Photos From the 1940s Volume 2

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Amazing Photographs of the Tuskegee Airmen at an Air Base in Italy During WWII

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36 Amazing Photos Showing Children During World War 2

An untold number of children were touched by the atrocities of World War II. Throughout the war, the proportion of civilian deaths to military deaths is said to have been as high as three to one — and some countries were definitely affected much worse than others. The country most affected during the war wasContinue reading “36 Amazing Photos Showing Children During World War 2”