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Margarete Buber-Neumann, Survivor of both Nazi Concentration camps and Soviet Gulags(1930)(330*487)
https://redd.it/1pce90l
[OC] Kindhearted Meilun (from my worldbuilding project; lore in OP)
https://redd.it/1p25x1k
Sofia Vergara in Miami, 1998
https://redd.it/1pbvlsm
Actress Susan Anton -- circa 1990s
https://redd.it/1p88xkv
American dream // Soviet Union // 1951
https://redd.it/1pb8wrf
Young Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries (Yemen in this instance) in Beit Lid Ma'abara, temporary refugee camp, 1950 [1200x728]
https://redd.it/1pat7lc
Young Girl 1947, drives about in her Tiny Car, NYC
https://redd.it/1pahqqe
Valeri Kharlamov against Viktor Zinger somewhere in the 70s
https://redd.it/1p9fky6
16th October, 1946. Hermann Goering lay dead after committing suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill he smuggled into his cell, 2 hours before he was due to be hung. Photo by Edward F. McLaughlin. [1483x1200]
https://redd.it/1pa5pk5
M. Vitry, a member of the Departmental Guard, was one of the last surviving veterans of Napoleon's army. He is shown here in full dress uniform, wearing the Saint Helene medal (issued August 12 1857, to all veterans of the wars of the Napoleonic Empire, photographed in 1858 [1200x900]
https://redd.it/1p9t6ad
Middleweight boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter with police in the immediate aftermath of the triple murder he’d be falsely convicted of, June 1966 [983X992].
https://redd.it/1p8w0h6
An American solider, smoking on a ledge overlooking the German town of Cochem. January 9th, 1919. [2339x3000]
https://redd.it/1p94xqw
Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov. Left: 1980 (declared KIA). Right: 2013 (found living as a healer in Herat). He had forgotten the Russian language entirely. [1920*1080]
https://redd.it/1p93kx9
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels sign autographs for members of the Canadian figure skating team at the Winter Olympic Games,Germany, 1936 [820x918]
https://redd.it/1p8la4a
Adolf Hitler’s Walther PP (.32 ACP), a 50th-birthday gift from the Walther family in 1939, features gold inlays and ivory grips. It sold to a private collector in 1987 for $114,000 and is now estimated to be worth millions. [621 × 414]
https://redd.it/1p887cr
US Army soldier Jonathan Millantz (left) and Lt. Phil Blanchard (right) smile as an Iraqi detainee is forced to hold up a large wooden board. Millantz claims the detainee held the board for 45 minutes until his wrists eventually broke from the strain. (Approx 2003) [1170x776]
https://redd.it/1pcchu7
Left-hand amputee soldier of the Spanish Republican Army aiming an 8mm Steyr Mannlicher rifle. Sometime during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) [1024x770]
https://redd.it/1pby5ct
Marguerite Headen sits with a photo of her late husband, John M. Smith, who went MIA with 2 other U.S. Marines in Okinawa in 1945. Their remains had just been identified. The three were murdered in retaliation for raping local women. Headen was in total denial of the story (Ohio, 2000) [522 x 764].
https://redd.it/1pbm1ab
LBJ visiting Eisenhower at Walter Reed after Ike's 7th heart attack in 1968.[1200 x 812]
https://redd.it/1pb8gin
Soviet leadership sign a treaty with 'Finnish Democratic Republic' the day Moscow started the Winter War with Finland, Nov. 30, 1939 [900 x 656]
https://redd.it/1paqlle
2 suspect in police custody following their failed robbery of a Manhattan restaurant,1956 [640x522]
https://redd.it/1pag2vi
HMS Dauntless coming into Portsmouth this morning after her deployment [4032x3024]
https://redd.it/1padubs
Dukakis in search of a running mate (1988)
https://redd.it/1p9rswb
Winston Churchill seen in 1928 building a cottage at his Chartwell estate, used bricklaying to balance his writing, joking he produced “200 bricks and 2,000 words a day.” Later that year he even joined the Amalgamated Union of Building Trades Workers as a bricklayer. [1620×1157].
https://redd.it/1pa0td3
In the 1920s-30s Alfred Cheney Johnston was hired by theatre producer Florenz Ziegfeld to photograph the showgirls from his theatre (otherwise known as the Ziegfeld Follies) - the results are absolutely exquisite and this one example. (640x800)
https://redd.it/1p9r0es
A view of the courtroom at the first war crimes trial of World War II. Eleven Russian and Ukrainian collaborators were tried for treason. They all pleaded guilty and begged the court for mercy. Three were sent to Siberian labor camps. The rest were publicly hanged (Soviet Union, 1943) [990 x 1428].
https://redd.it/1p9bvii
Picture of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved up to 100.000 Hungarian Jews by issuing Swedish protective passports, June 1944
https://redd.it/1p8ypm5
A Xenomorph chilling behind the scenes of Alien 3 (1992)
https://redd.it/1p8szpm
Three Generations || An Australian-Aboriginal family whose photograph was used in a project by the Australian government to show how Aboriginal people can be assimilated into white Australian society by 'breeding out the colour', 1947.
https://redd.it/1p8lifd
This is Katherine McHale Slaughterback, otherwise known as Rattlesnake Kate. She fought off 140 rattlesnakes in 1925 using just three bullets and a “No Hunting” sign. (1024x601)
https://redd.it/1p8dey7