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The dead body of Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu moments after his execution via firing squad by local forces, 1946. Antonescu was responsible for the implementation of the Holocaust in Romania, which killed up to 400,000 people, mostly Jews and the Romani (1301x1192)
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The dead body of Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu moments after his execution via firing squad by local forces, 1946. Antonescu was responsible for the implementation of the Holocaust in Romania, which killed up to 400,000 people, mostly Jews and the Romani (1301x1192)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 12 hours ago
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The monster eating a galaxy in the "WWYD in this situation?" meme was originally a concept art photo of the Kraken from the 2010 movie 'Clash of the Titans'

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 17 hours ago
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Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu and his ministers just moments before their execution, being led to the clearing in which they would be shot dead by a Soviet firing squad, 1946. Antonescu was responsible for the implementation of the Holocaust in Romania, which killed up to 400,000 people

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 17 hours ago
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1930 portrait of Romanian fascist leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, who founded both the 'Legion of the Archangel Michael' in 1927 & the 'Iron Guard' in 1930. In 1938 he was strangled to death or shot on the orders of King Carol II, his corpse being disfigured with acid & buried in concrete (1135x720)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 17 hours ago
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German Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945. Throughout WWII Rundstedt had been aware of, but never supported or opposed, various plots against Hitler. By the end of the war he was the German army's most senior member, with 52 years of service (1000x1254)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 17 hours ago
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'Buonaparte at Rome giving audience in state.' 1797 cartoon by British caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank condemning Napoleon for his ruthlessness in conquering Rome & the Papal states. In the background a French soldier can be seen urinating into a container of holy water

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 17 hours ago
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"The Prophet of the Hebrews, the Prince of Peace, conducting the Jews to the Promis'D Land." 1795 Gillray cartoon mocking religious activist Richard Brothers, an early advocate of 'British Israelism,' which espoused a belief in the British people's descent from the ten lost tribes of Israel

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 17 hours ago
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"In the Dreyfus Affair, the more that is exposed, the more Judah is embarrassed." 1899 Antisemitic caricature from the Viennese magazine 'Kikeriki,' portraying Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish army officer convicted, and later exonerated, of being a foreign spy.

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 1 day ago
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'Rothschild.' Anti-semitic caricature by French artist Charles Lucien Leandre showing the Rothschild banking dynasty, a golden calf on it's crown, with the world in its grasp. 1898

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"Die Fremdsprachigen Ausgaben des Buches" A poster displayed by the Nazis at the 1936 Olympic games (carefully scrubbed of any explicit antisemitic message) showing the variety of countries into which Hitlers autobiography and manifesto 'Mein Kampf' had been translated

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 1 day ago
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An American soldier pointing out a sign to German civilians that memorializes the 800 prisoners shot by the SS near the town of Nammering, 1945. In the background, other German civilians walk among corpses exhumed from the mass grave. (1537x1200)

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A young German army officer posing with American athletes at the Berlin Olympic games, 1936. (1194x741)

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SS commander & Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp director Amon Göth surveying the site on horseback, between 1943-44. Göth became notorious for his extreme abuses of power while serving as director, such as periodically shooting random prisoners from the balcony of his room with a sniper (1643x1200)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 1 day ago
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The leaders of the major western powers in Paris, 1959. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, US President Dwight Eisenhower, French President Charles De Gaulle, and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1800x1080)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 3 days ago
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US Presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt chatting with farmers near Warm Springs, Georgia, during the 1932 presidential campaign. FDR ran on the promise of bringing a wide variety of much needed improvements to rural Americans. (3586x2968)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 4 days ago
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US and French Generals George S Patton and Charles De Gaulle in Paris, shortly after it's liberation, 1944. (1178x1072)

u/zig_zag-wanderer — 4 days ago