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“Parade of the Defeated” German POWs captured by Soviet soldiers during Operation Bagration, being paraded and mocked in Moscow (July 1944)(1300x874)

Archive / 3521Added Mar 19, 2025

“Parade of the Defeated” German POWs captured by Soviet soldiers during Operation Bagration, being paraded and mocked in Moscow (July 1944)(1300x874)

Soviet civilians in Moscow hearing the radio announcement that Germany has started the invasion of the Soviet Union (June 22, 1941)(900x1238)

Archive / 3522Added Mar 18, 2025

Soviet civilians in Moscow hearing the radio announcement that Germany has started the invasion of the Soviet Union (June 22, 1941)(900x1238)

Omer Khawar is holding his infant child as their city has suffered a chemical attack by Iraqi forces. Halabja, Iraq. March 16, 1988

Archive / 3523Added Mar 18, 2025

Omer Khawar is holding his infant child as their city has suffered a chemical attack by Iraqi forces. Halabja, Iraq. March 16, 1988

US sailors at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station standing behind rolled-out sea bags and awaiting inspection, 1940 (LIFE Magazine photo)

Archive / 3524Added Mar 17, 2025

US sailors at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station standing behind rolled-out sea bags and awaiting inspection, 1940 (LIFE Magazine photo)

“Total War - Shortest War” photo of a pro-war rally hosted by Joseph Goebbels in Berlin, who calls for a full mobilization of German civilian society to support the war effort after the lost Battle of Stalingrad (February 1943)(800x560)

Archive / 3525Added Mar 17, 2025

“Total War - Shortest War” photo of a pro-war rally hosted by Joseph Goebbels in Berlin, who calls for a full mobilization of German civilian society to support the war effort after the lost Battle of Stalingrad (February 1943)(800x560)

Serbian women from Toplica displaying the scars they received from being branded by Bulgarian soldiers after the failed Toplica Uprising in 1917. (1919 photo)(1024x754)

Archive / 3526Added Mar 17, 2025

Serbian women from Toplica displaying the scars they received from being branded by Bulgarian soldiers after the failed Toplica Uprising in 1917. (1919 photo)(1024x754)

The remains of killed Serbs during an exhumation in 1926. An estimated 2,000-3,000 Serbs were massacred in Surdulica by Bulgarian occupation forces during WW1 (1280x971)

Archive / 3527Added Mar 16, 2025

The remains of killed Serbs during an exhumation in 1926. An estimated 2,000-3,000 Serbs were massacred in Surdulica by Bulgarian occupation forces during WW1 (1280x971)

James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet filming the "door scene" from Titanic (1997)

Archive / 3528Added Mar 16, 2025

James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet filming the "door scene" from Titanic (1997)

An 11-year-old girl in Ghor Province, Afghanistan sits beside her fiancee, estimated to be in his 40s, at their engagement ceremony shortly before the couple’s marriage in 2005. Taken by Stephanie Sinclair winning the UNICEF Photo of the year 2007.

Archive / 3529Added Mar 15, 2025

An 11-year-old girl in Ghor Province, Afghanistan sits beside her fiancee, estimated to be in his 40s, at their engagement ceremony shortly before the couple’s marriage in 2005. Taken by Stephanie Sinclair winning the UNICEF Photo of the year 2007.

A soldier stands in front of a sign erected by British Forces at the entrance to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany, May 1945 (800x778)

Archive / 3530Added Mar 15, 2025

A soldier stands in front of a sign erected by British Forces at the entrance to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany, May 1945 (800x778)

Soviet soldiers that were captured during the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, held in a German transit camp and will soon be shipped to concentration camps in Germany or occupied Poland (August 1941)(1200x1135)

Archive / 3531Added Mar 14, 2025

Soviet soldiers that were captured during the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, held in a German transit camp and will soon be shipped to concentration camps in Germany or occupied Poland (August 1941)(1200x1135)

Aerial photo of the German Reichstag building in ruins after the Battle of Berlin, May 1945 (784x526)

Archive / 3532Added Mar 14, 2025

Aerial photo of the German Reichstag building in ruins after the Battle of Berlin, May 1945 (784x526)

Photo of an armed partisan fighter during the occupation of Yugoslavia, 1943 (940x1275)

Archive / 3533Added Mar 14, 2025

Photo of an armed partisan fighter during the occupation of Yugoslavia, 1943 (940x1275)

A young Cambodian government soldier flees into Phnom Penh, away from the advancing Khmer Rouge, April 1975.

Archive / 3534Added Mar 13, 2025

A young Cambodian government soldier flees into Phnom Penh, away from the advancing Khmer Rouge, April 1975.

Stanisław Swianiewicz, a Polish soldier who was an eyewitness to the Katyn massacre, testifying, wearing a mask, to a US House committee. After the investigation, the committee determined that it was the Soviet NKVD responsible for the crime (1952)(968x544)

Archive / 3535Added Mar 13, 2025

Stanisław Swianiewicz, a Polish soldier who was an eyewitness to the Katyn massacre, testifying, wearing a mask, to a US House committee. After the investigation, the committee determined that it was the Soviet NKVD responsible for the crime (1952)(968x544)

Exiled Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia delivering a speech to the National Assembly of the League of Nations, condemning Italian aggression against Ethiopia, and criticizing members for lack of concern and hypocrisy. "It is us today, tomorrow it will be you” (1936)(1099x799)

Archive / 3536Added Mar 12, 2025

Exiled Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia delivering a speech to the National Assembly of the League of Nations, condemning Italian aggression against Ethiopia, and criticizing members for lack of concern and hypocrisy. "It is us today, tomorrow it will be you” (1936)(1099x799)

Cesare Battisti, an Italian of Austria-Hungary citizenship, after his execution for high treason and Italian irredentism during WW1. His executioner (above him) and other officials, pose and smile for a photo (July 1916)(600x954)

Archive / 3537Added Mar 12, 2025

Cesare Battisti, an Italian of Austria-Hungary citizenship, after his execution for high treason and Italian irredentism during WW1. His executioner (above him) and other officials, pose and smile for a photo (July 1916)(600x954)

The boy Slavoljub Slava Ković from Bogatić in Serbia with a carved-in five-pointed star on his forehead immediately before being shot in January 1942 by Germans.

Archive / 3538Added Mar 11, 2025

The boy Slavoljub Slava Ković from Bogatić in Serbia with a carved-in five-pointed star on his forehead immediately before being shot in January 1942 by Germans.

The wife of Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling, addressing members of the US House of Representatives, calling for maximum efforts in the Allied war against Japan, 1943 (800x523)

Archive / 3539Added Mar 11, 2025

The wife of Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling, addressing members of the US House of Representatives, calling for maximum efforts in the Allied war against Japan, 1943 (800x523)

A starved boy from a village in Ukraine during Povolzhye famine, 1921-22.

Archive / 3540Added Mar 10, 2025

A starved boy from a village in Ukraine during Povolzhye famine, 1921-22.