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Berlin Streets as Russian

 You are wrong if you think that the place in the picture is in the Russia. This is in the Berlin after the end of the World War 2.

Soviets have changed majority of the signboards to Russian alphabet.

паризьен плац =  Parisen
бранденбург  =  Brandenburg
лев =  Lion
рейхстаг =  Reichstag

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Allied soldiers imitated hitler in the balcony. you can see the clothes of hitler and eva braun.

This is how Russia batted open the door of Berlin in the last week's of April the city's last days as the capital of Hitler's life in the unter den linden orders go up for german civilians dazed and beaten based hand at underground entrances which housed many thousands during a bombardment landmarks of the beaten town the rice time the Brandenburg Gate shells hard and broken they were once Germany's pride every guidebook boosted them now the guidebooks can be found littered among the rubble the pompous buildings have paid the price of Hitler's crazy dream of conquering the world for Germany

Raid shelter at the transferee is the spot where the bodies of Hitler and his alleged wife Eva Braun were said to have been burned an SS man says he saw the bodies soaked in petrol and what's umber is this the end of the Hitler legend or is it just another story maybe his ghost will turn up someday and give a repeat performance of those balcony ranting now.

the delight of Allied soldiers the union jack goes up to signalize the taking over by the British troops of their sector of Berlin the date is July the sixth nineteen forty-five a date the history books will remember first into Berlin came the famous Desert Rats...

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Hungarian Soldiers Force Russian Civilians to Dig Their Own Graves

Axis Hungarian soldiers force Russian civilians in the small village of Polnikovo to dig their own graves before being summarily executed as other villagers are forced to watch the proceedings.

Days previously, two Hungarian soldiers were killed in the forest near the village. The Hungarian Army then carried out reprisal killings of all male civilians in the village who had been in or near the forest on the day the Hungarian soldiers were killed. Polnikovo, Ukolovskogo District, Voronezh Oblast (now, Krasnensky District, Belgorod Oblast), Soviet Union. July 1942.

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Marina Ginesta 1936

Marina Ginesta 1936 yılında 17 yaşındayken  Barselona'daki Hotel Colon'un çatısında çekilen fotoğrafıyla, İspanya İç Savaşı'nın sembollerinden olan bir milis oldu.

Fotoğraf Juan Guzmán tarafından tarafından çekildi.

Sırtında taşıdığı silah, Oviedo fabrikası tarafından İspanya ordusu için üretilen M1916 Spanish Mauser.

Marina bu fotoğrafın var olduğunu 2006 yılında  Carlos Fonseca 'nın “Thirteen Red Roses” isimli kitabının kapağında kullanmasıyla öğrendi.

Marina Ginesta ve erkek kardeşi

1919 yılında Fransa Toulus'ta doğan Marina Ginesta, ömrünün son 30 yılını geçirdiği Paris'te 2014 yılınıda 94 yaşındayken öldü.

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Rings from Buchenwald victims 1945

Rings stolen from Buchenwald concentration camp victims, 5 May 1945.


 Buchenwald Concentration Camp is one of the largest concentration camps in German. It was operated as a work camp in Ettersberg near Weimar  between June 1937 and April 1945. During this time, nearly 250,000 people from various European countries were arrested and sent to the Buchenwald Collective Camp to work and wait for death. It is estimated that 56,000 people were killed, including 11,000 Jews. On April 11, 1945, with the support of the 3rd Army, the detainees rescued themselves. As of April 8th, most of the detainees were resisting with boycotting and sabotage, and they wanted help with the radio from the American army.

The source of the picture is Gettyimages

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Marina Ginesta 1936

Marina Ginestà (January 29, 1919 - January 6, 2014) is a militia of the symbols of the Spanish Civil War, photographed by Juan Guzmán in 1936 at the top of the Hotel Colon in Barcelona in 1936.

 The gun she is carrying is M1916 Spanish Mauser, produced at Oviedo factory in Spain for Spanish Army.

Marina did not knew about the photo until 2006, although the iconic image was printed and circulated everywhere, serving as cover for the book “Thirteen Red Roses” by Carlos Fonseca

During the Republican administration in Barcelona (1934-1936) he actively worked in the Catalan United Socialist Party. Shortly after the internal war he started working as a journalist and interpreter, She was transformed into a symbol on the roof of a hotel in Barcelona, with a militia garment and a rifle on her shoulder.

Marina Ginesta and her brother

Ginestà was born in Toulouse on January 29, 1919, into a labor and left-wing family immigrated from Spain to France. Her family was a tailor. He moved to Barcelona with his family when he was 11 years old. Ginestà later joined the United Socialist Party of Catalonia. When the war broke out, Soviet newspaper Pravda's correspondent Mikhail Koltsov served as a correspondent and translator. Before the end of the war, Ginesta was wounded and evacuated to Montpellier. When France was occupied by the Nazis, she run away to the Dominican Republic and married there. In 1946, the dictator Rafael Trujillo had to leave the country because of the persecution he did. In 1952 she married a Belgian diplomat and returned to Barcelona. She moved to Paris in the early 1970s.

Marina Ginestà died in Paris in January 2014 at the age of 94.

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Listening aircraft with a huge acoustic locator

Finland had three major battles during World War II. The first two were against the Soviet Union. The last battle was against Germany, which was allied.

The Finnish soldiers were using acoustic locator to find the soviets aircrafts.

Acoustic location is the science of using sound to determine the distance and direction of its source or reflector. Location can be done actively or passively, and can take place in gases (such as the atmosphere), liquids (such as water), and in solids (such as in the earth).

As World War II neared, radar began to become a credible alternative to the sound location of aircraft. For typical aircraft speeds of that time, sound location only gave a few minutes of warning. The acoustic location stations were left in operation as a backup to radar, as exemplified during the Battle of Britain. Today, the abandoned sites are still in existence and are readily accessible.
After World War II, sound ranging played no further role in anti-aircraft operations ( source wiki )

They looking out toward approaching aircraft with binoculars and listening with a huge acoustic locator.

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P40 Fling Tigers

The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945.

The USA helped China against Japan with their aircraft P-40 Flying Tigers.

Soldier guards a row of Curtiss P-40 'Warhawks' flown by the 'Flying Tigers' of the American Volunteer Group (AVG). July, 1942.

Source of the picture- National Archives and Records Administration - 535531. Colorized by Tom Thounaojam from India)

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P-40 Warhawk Flying Tigers in China 1942

The picture was taken by AVG pilot Robert T. Smith in China in 1942.

The P-40 Warhawk model is nicknamed as  The Flying Tigers.

These airplanes, which were used in 1942, could go very slowly, like in a movie shoot.

At the time of drawing, all Flying Tigers came to the same line. All pilots looked at the same cameraman who took the picture.

The group of these aircraft used by the United States against Japan was collected by Colonel Claire Chennault under the name "American Volunteer Group" (AVG). (American Volunteer Group). There were a maximum of 100 airplanes together and most of them were decorated with a dogfish mouth as pictured.

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Easter Eggs for Hitler 1945

These two black American soldiers  prepare a special gift of “Easter Eggs” for Adolf Hitler and the German Army. ( Colorized by Johhny Sirlande from Belgium )

The name of the soldiers are Technical Sergeant William E. Thomas and Private First Class Joseph Jackson.

Easter eggs for hitler

Photo has taken in 10th of March 1945 during the Battle of Remagen. Scrawling such messages on artillery shells in World War II was one way in which artillery soldiers could humorously express their dislike of the enemy. Easter Saturday, March the 10th 1945, during the Battle of Remagen.

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Hugo Boss

Did you know these informaton about the Hugo Boss brand?

In 1924, Hugo Boss began working as a clothing company in Metzingen.

Hugo Boss Designer for Nazi Clothes

Hugo Boss brand has same name with its founder. Hugo Boss became a member of the Nazi party in 1931. In the period when Nazi Germany and Hitler ascended, the work of Hugo Boss began to improve.

Hugo Boss SS

He became a offical supplier of SS troops that made Hitler's personal guard. He also designed clothes for SA, Hitler Youth and party clothes.

Hugo Boss Hitler

The prisoners from the occupied Poland and France worked in Hugo Boss factories.

Hugo Boss Collection

After Nazi Germany lost the war, he was prosecuted in 1946 for his support to the Nazi party and sentenced to 100,000 German Marks($70,553 U.S. dollars). Hugo Boss died in 1948.

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Red Army Child Soldier 1943

A Russian child soldier of Red Army. He use standard issue PPSh sub machine gun, he proudly poses as smiling for the photographer in 1942.

A number of child soldiers served in the Soviet Union's armed forces during World War II. In some cases, orphans also unofficially joined the Soviet Red Army. Such children were affectionately known as "son of the regiment" (Russian: сын полка) and sometimes willingly performed military missions such as reconnaissance. Officially, the age of military conscription was lowered to 18 for those without secondary education and 19 for those who had been educated beyond that ( source wiki )

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Finnish Child Soldier and His Dog

Finland participated in three major battles during World War II. The first two were against the Soviet Union. The last battle was against Germany, which was allied.

As a result of the wars, Finland managed to defend its independence, but it had to transfer about 10% of its territory, including the second largest city, Viipuri. He also had to pay a large amount of war compensation to the Soviet Union. After this loss of land, many Fin residents in the region left their land.

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Flamethrower in village of Niinisalo July 1 1942

A flame or lava weapon is a device designed to fire and to mechanically control the flame flow for a very long time. These machines have been widely used since being used during World War I.

In some models, the flow of flame is formed by flammable liquids, and in some models the system works with gas. Flammable liquids have been used in most military flamethrowers, but natural gas and pressurized propane are considered safer at higher levels in commercial flame engines. The controlled burning capacity used by the military has been used by other people in agriculture (eg sugar cane fields) or other field work. These machines can either be carried by an operator or they can be designed to be installed by truck.

Soldier using flamethrower for smoke 1917

Military Flame Machines

The first military flame machines were used in close combat between the trenches during World War I, II. World War II has expanded its usage areas. Portable ones consist of two parts; The tank that the user carries on his back and the gun he holds. The reservoir part usually consists of two or three different cylinder shaped tubes. In two-cylinder systems, there is a combustible gas (usually nitrogen) compressed in one of the cylinders, and a diluted combustible liquid in the other. In the three-cylinder system, compressed gas is in the middle tube, and the other two are inflammable liquid in the outer tube. The pressurized gas pushes the fuel out of the cylinder and conveys it to the cylinder through the flexible fuel hose. The flame is sprayed with the retraction of the throttle. The flame machine is physically extremely painful for the user exposed to it, psychological for the user. So much so that they were forbidden at that time. As a consequence of the spraying of flame-retardant, flammable liquid compositions comes up to an effective range of 50-80 meters.

Military flame machines bring many risks for the user;

• One of the biggest disadvantages is the weight that limits the user's mobility.
• Because they consume fuel very quickly, use requires special care and attention. The soldier who uses it must use it sparingly.
• It's very easy to spot it on battlefields. This makes the user an obvious target, especially for sharp markers.
• Soldiers carrying flame machines are always a priority target for wars.
• Since the range is much shorter than other weapons, the user who has to approach as close as possible to the target will have to risk his life.

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Georges Blind mock execution 1944

Georges Blind was born on November 17, 1904 in Belfort.

In 1941, he became a member of the Resistance of Ferrand Group. He operated during the night between the territory of Belfort and Alsace with the ambulance of the fire brigade. he was carrying officials of the Resistance, wanted people, weapons, intelligence and clandestine newspapers.

He was arrested by the Feldgendarmerie on 14 October 1944 in Belfort.

He underwent a mock execution between October 15 and October 23, 1944 before the citadel of Belfort. A photo immortalizes the fact as being the 'Smiling Shot'. This simulacrum was meant to make him speak to denounce his comrades.

This was a mock execution as an attempt to get Georges Blind, a French resistance fighter, to talk.

You can noticed that how Nazi soldiers placed Georges Blind at the corner of the building rather than against the stereotypical flat wall.

Georges didn’t talk.  Georges did not divulge any information. He was later sent to a concentration camp, where he was selected for termination on arrival, and he died in later November 1944.

Place where the smiling shot was taken in Belfort

Place where the smiling shot was taken in Belfort. This phote has taken in 2015 and source of this picture is Wikipedia.

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The last days of prisoners in Nazi Germany concentration camps.

Nazi concentration camps (German Konzentrationslager, briefly KZ) were established by Nazi Germany to engage in forced labor in Germany and occupied territories during World War II. At the same time, the term is also used to denote the destruction camps (German: Vernichtungslager), which were established to mass destruction of the political or ideological enemies of the Nazis, especially the Jews. With the introduction of more Jews, Roma, some Slavic races, and those thought to be mentally ill are among the victims. The gay people were killed here. The reasons for the killing were not to be a contribution to the uremia. A large part was in Poland.

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Cambodian border March 1965

This above photo was taken by the German photographer and twice by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Horst Faas. Demonstrating that the US Army has deployed an army helicopter that holds the helicopters of the US Army to the tree line to meet the progression of the South Vietnamese troops while attacking Viet Cong camp, eighteen kilometers away from Tay Ninh  on the Cambodian border on March 1965.

War child in vietnam

Does anyone have any idea what's in this picture of May 14, 1966?

Henri Huet Vietnam War

The corpse of an American soldier killed while landing on a parachute in the Cambodian border is being removed by a helicopter from the region. Phote has takeb by Henri Huet.

American paratroopers try to cross river

American paratroopers are trying to cross the river in Vietnam. Henri Huet, the French war photographer who took this powerful image, died in 1971 when the helicopter he and three other photojournalists were in was shot down.

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Simone Segouin 1944

Simone Segouin, known as nom de guerre Nicole Minet (born October 3, 1925, Thivars, Eure-et-Loir) is a former French resistance fighter who served in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans group.

Simone Segoui was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on August 23, 1944 in the fall of Chartres and at the Liberation of Paris [1], and was awarded the Croix de Guerre engagement. Her name given a name on a street in Courville-sur-Eure.

Simone Segouin

The gun she’s holding is a German MP-40. Many German weapons were captured and used by the French Resistance. The gun was effective in close quarters, due to its automatic fire and moderate stopping power against regular infantry enemies. The MP-40 was often called the “Schmeisser” by the Allies, after weapons designer Hugo Schmeisser.

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Lonely orphan child in England 1945

In World War II, this child who has been lost and lost his family of the destroyed building is playing with the teddy bear, England 1945

Here is the colorized version of this picture

Lonely orphan child in England

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A Victim of American Bombing is Carried

After a American bombing,  Cambodian guerrilla is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp in this Viet Cong haven on the Ca Mau Peninsula.

It has photographed by Vo Anh Khanh on September 15th 1970.

The colorization of the picture made by Marina Amaral.

Here you can find the original version of the photo below.

A Victim of American Bombing

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