TheSourcerer:
I feel this photograph is one of the most iconic photos of the 20th century and arguably the most sobering photo imaginable.

The picture dates to sometime in the summer of 1941 in Ukraine. It depicts in the simplest and starkest terms exactly what war means and what war is. The young man is a trooper in the Einsatzgruppen, a corps of paramilitaries tasked by the Nazi command with ‘liquidating undesirables’ from all newly conquered territories. They followed behind Hitlers conquering horde and more than any other element of Hitler’s ranks made the twisted visions of National Socialism come to life. The horrifying irony is that this meant murder on a scale never seen before and hopefully never seen again.

The unidentified young mother and child were two of the countless human beings that were ripped from their existence by the unprecedented wave of cruelty that engulfed the world between 1914 - 1954.

If war has a face, I feel even it would be streaked with tears should it ever gaze upon this image.

Damn! Wars

we all hide under the pretence of searching for peace

Street in london

Marine blankly stares into the camera.

A member of the Wehrmacht has a little fun with his dog.(If anyone knows the rank please let me know)







Hopefullandlord , Mufasalion, CAPSLOCKED

A Japanese soldier executes an Australian POW

George Bush(sr) in ww2

JFK WW2

German World War I mobilization, 1 August 1914

Soldier fails to place mask on during a gas attack and dies, 1917

London Scottish Regiment charge, 1914

Captured Allied soldier of Anamite (Vietnamese), Tunisian, Senegalese, Sudanese, Russian, American, Portuguese, and English descendant

Black Russian Solider in WW1

Due to hyperinflation, the German mark became worthless

Hitler giving a speech 1935

German troops in Warsaw, 1939

German and Soviet officers shake hands after their invasion of Poland, 1939

A Frenchman sheds tears of patriotic grief as flags of his country's lost regiments are exiled to Africa, 1941

The USS West Virginia during the attack of Pearl Harbor, 1941

USS Yorktown during the Battle of Midway, 1942

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943

Blumau German War Cemetery in Austria

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France

TheSourcerer:
This combination of three photographs shows the reaction of a 16-year-old German soldier after returning home and finding out his family has died, and that his house has been destroyed.

the boy is a hero

TheSourcerer:
A ten-year-old Polish girl named Kazimiera Mika mourns over her sister's body. She was killed by German machine-gun fire while picking potatoes in a field outside Warsaw, Poland, in September of 1939.

am crying

Deaths

Anieke77:
am crying

#hugsTight.

This photo was taken in Germany in 1936. August Landmesser is the sole person in this photo who chooses not to give the Hitler greeting when Adolf Hitler visits Hamburg.

This photo tells us how hard it is to remain loyal to our principles when group pressure, propaganda and a police state all try to push us in a different direction.

I am quite certain I would not have been August Landmesser. This photo humbles me.

Beheading competition


.The Japanese regime glorified violence and a racist ideology. This photo and its use, of two Japanese soldiers in China in 1937, captures something of that glorification.

These two Japanese soldiers, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, held a competition to see who could behead the most Chinese soldiers - most of whom had already surrendered.

Perhaps most chilling is the realization that a Japanese newspaper thought it a good idea to publish this, including the score at the time: 106 versus 105 human beings.

feel this photograph is one of the most iconic photos of the 20th century and arguably the most sobering photo imaginable.

The picture dates to sometime in the summer of 1941 in Ukraine. It depicts in the simplest and starkest terms exactly what war means and what war is. The young man is a trooper in the Einsatzgruppen, a corps of paramilitaries tasked by the Nazi command with ‘liquidating undesirables’ from all newly conquered territories. They followed behind Hitlers conquering horde and more than any other element of Hitler’s ranks made the twisted visions of National Socialism come to life. The horrifying irony is that this meant murder on a scale never seen before and hopefully never seen again.

The unidentified young mother and child were two of the countless human beings that were ripped from their existence by the unprecedented wave of cruelty that engulfed the world between 1914 - 1954.

If war has a face, I feel even it would be streaked with tears should it ever gaze upon this image.

The scientists who created awful weapons

Racist posters to encourage hatred

Greece, 1944: Maria Pantiska, a 19 year old girl from Distomo, Greece, is photographed few months after her town was razed to the ground and her mother was executed by the Nazis—a reminder that survivors are not always the "lucky" ones.