Buffalo Calf Road Woman is a Native American warrior who is credited with helping kill U.S. Army Colonel George Custer during the American Indian Wars in 1876. Custer was responsible for massacring Native American civilians and allowing his men to commit rape indigenous women [600 × 916].

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A photo of Abdul Wali, an Afghan farmer. In 2003, he was falsely accused of being a terrorist. Hoping to clear his name, he turned turned himself in to the Americans. A CIA contractor would brutally torture Wali to death over the course of 3 days, beating him until he begged for death [596 x 420].

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A crowd of about 4000 Nazi sympathizers, some with their children, protest outside Landsberg Prison, demanding amnesty for the hundreds of Nazi war criminals being held there. When Jewish people counter-protested, the crowd chanted Nazi-era slogans and attacked them, West Germany, 1951 [700 x 394].

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A photo of Mbaye Diagne, a UN peacekeeper who disobeyed his orders to stand down during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. He is credited with singlehandedly saving the lives of as many as 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus [1024 x 746].

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Nazi camp overseer Gerda Steinhoff (center middle) stifles a smile as she goes on trial for torturing and murdering prisoners. Most of the accused female overseers for the Stutthof camp did not take their trial seriously. They laughed and joked throughout the proceedings, Poland, 1946 [1461 x 799].

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Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In 1947, he became the chief prosecutor in what was called the biggest murder trial in history. He spent his entire life fighting for justice for the victims of war crimes. He died this week [1199 x 674].

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Jewish-Nazi collaborator Ans van Dijk stands trial for treason. During the war, she baited fellow Jews out of hiding and got them arrested by the Gestapo. Dijk, who was paid for every Jew she caught, sold out at least 145 people, including her own brother, Amsterdam, 1947 [804 x 1000].

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German student Kalistros Thielecke has his mugshot taken after murdering his mother, whom he stabbed 17 times. He later joined the Dirlewanger Brigade, an SS unit composed of convicted violent criminals. They committed atrocities so brutal that even other SS units were horrified, 1930 [1462 x 941].

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That's the dirty bastard that killed my brother - An injured Nick Kuesis immediately recognizes and points to James Morelli, who killed his brother and shot him in the neck. Morelli and two other men were implicated in five shootings, three of which were fatal, Chicago, 1947 [2048 x 1150]

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Pele and President Gerald Ford play with a soccer ball in the Rose Guard, White House, 1975 [791 x 1200]

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A death squad mercenary stops for a lunch break in El Salvador. The photographer said he bought the man a beer and “took three shots before he went ballistic”, 1980s [1177 x 1760].

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Japanese serial rapist, serial killer, Navy veteran, and self-confessed war criminal Yoshio Kodaira, whose face is concealed with a straw hat, is escorted into court. In addition to killing several Japanese women, Kodaira said he committed various war crimes while in China, 1947 [1206 x 1414].

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A photo of Father Hans Schmidt, a Catholic priest who emigrated from Germany due to scandals. In 1913, he gained international notoriety after murdering a woman and drinking her blood. For this, he became the first and only Catholic priest to be executed in the United States [766 × 1024].

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A white mob, consisting of thousands of people, many of whom are hoping to participate in or witness a lynching, stands outside the courthouse as a black man stands trial for murdering a white girl. At least one person in the crowd was seen carrying a rope, Kentucky, 1920 [740 × 435].

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Piotr Chemy, a young Polish man who survived a concentration camp, is readied for his execution after being convicted of murdering a German family. The family had found him wandering on a snowy night, fed him, and gave him a bed. Chemy killed them as they slept, Landsberg Prison, 1947 [840 x 1200].

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Itamar Ben-Gvir, a 19-year-old Kahanist, holds an ornament which he stole from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's car. On live TV, he declared, We got to his car, and we'll get to him too. Weeks later, Rabin was assassinated. Ben-Gvir is now Israel's Minister of National Security, 1995 [1389 x 589].

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The booking photos of German Communist and street-fighter Albrecht Hohler, taken after his arrest for killing Nazi Party member Horst Wessel. The killing of Horst Wessel is notable since the Nazis turned him into a martyr for their cause, Weimar Republic, 1930 [1380 × 667].

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Ronald Clark O'Bryan is escorted from a courtroom after being convicted of murdering his son with Halloween candy laced with cyanide. It is the only known instance of someone poisoning others with Halloween candy. O'Bryan was later nicknamed The Man Who Ruined Halloween, Texas, 1975 [1200 x 1510].

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Edward Delafield Smith was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and federal prosecutor. While a prosecutor, he combatted the slave trade by prosecuting slave traders as pirates. In 1861, he gained international attention after one case resulted in a slave trader being sentenced to death [848 x 1278].

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Werner von Clemm was a prominent and well-connected banker who smuggled diamonds stolen from Holocaust victims in the Netherlands and Belgium into the United States. Werner was one of countless bankers who helped smuggle Nazi loot from occupied territories, New York, 1942 [1041 x 1280].

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Paul Gruninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders to save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they came when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Gruninger was fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension, 1930s [360 x 480].

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In the late 2000s, peanut company CEO Stewart Parnell caused a salmonella outbreak by knowingly selling tainted products to save money. Nine people died and 714 others got sick. At a hearing, Parnell refused to say anything as one representative asked him to eat his peanuts in front of everyone.

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A Chinese tin worker carrying ingots at a British smelting plant in Malaya, 1941 [720 x 873].

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Gavrilo Princip's parents in front of their house, Bosnia, 1910s/1920s [645 x 890]

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Christine Collins was a California mother whose son went missing in 1928. Five months, police found a boy who claimed to be her son. After Christine said he wasn't, the police asked her to try the boy out. After Christine insisted, she was committed to a mental hospital [602 x 777].

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A view inside the Muskogee Federal Courthouse during the trial of members of a lynch mob. In an extremely rare prosecution for the era, dozens of men were indicted for their roles in the torture-killings of two Native American teenagers, Oklahoma Territory, 1899 [1374 x 912].

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Saddam Hussein speaks at an emergency session of Ba'ath Party leaders, which he convened. He claimed to have discovered a planned coup. Saddam then read out the names of the 68 alleged conspirators, who were taken out of the room. Twenty-one of them were later shot, Iraq, 1979 [1289 x 912].

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William Walker was an American doctor who invaded Central America in the 1850s. After failing to conquer parts of Mexico, Walker, with his own army, overthrew the Nicaraguan government. He became President for 10 months, relegalized slavery, and made English the official language [720 x 1024].

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An American infantry camp in Russia during the Siberian Expedition. The troops were part of the Allied intervention on the side of the Whites during the Russian Civil War, Siberia, December 1918 [1600 x 1195].

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Kurt von Schuschnigg, the former fascist dictator of Austria, announces that he is retiring and returning to Austria. After World War II, Schuschnigg moved to the United States, where he worked as a professor of political science at St. Louis University for nearly 20 years, 1967 [2048 x 1362].

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Nationalist troops aboard the SS Castillo de Olite. In March 1939, they prepared to dock in a city they thought was in their control. The men were too busy celebrating their upcoming victory to heed Republican warning shots. Eventually, a shots sank the ship, killing 1,476 Nationalists [720 x 585].

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An African man points a defendant at the Luanda Trial. The trial is only time that anyone has been tried for crimes against peace since World War Two. Thirteen Western mercenaries, mostly from Britain and the United States, were tried by an Angolan tribunal for war crimes, 1976 [2048 x 1429].

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Austrian police and soldiers stand outside the RAVAG studio in Vienna. The building was overtaken by a group of 15 Nazis during the July Putsch, an attempt by the Nazis to forcefully annex Austria. A small war broke out, with over 100 people on each side being killed, July 25, 1934 [960 x 691].

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Paul Gruninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders so he could save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they arrived when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Gruninger was later fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension.

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During the Rwandan Genocide, Mbaye Diagne, a UN peacekeeper, disobeyed his orders to stand down. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. He is credited with singlehandedly saving the lives of as many as 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

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It is official. Biden is now more right-wing than Ronald Reagan.

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What Palestine Showed The World

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The Battle of Broken Hill has been described as Australia's first terrorist attack. Two Afghan camel drivers who supported the Ottoman Empire went on a shooting spree in New South Wales. They killed four people before being gunned down by the police. These were their rifles, 1915 [1200 x 748].

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Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is strapped to a post moments before his execution by a firing squad for war crimes. Dostler was convicted of having 15 POWs summarily executed (Italy, December 1, 1945)

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Yakov Melkumov was an Armenian who fought for the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. In 1922, he would command the unit which killed Enver Pasha, who was one of the main architects of the Armenian genocide [856 x 1345].

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Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In 1947, he became the chief prosecutor in what was called the biggest murder trial in history. He spent his entire life fighting for justice for the victims of war crimes. He died this week.

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A group of Native American schoolchildren are photographed at the Panguitch Boarding School. The school was one of many Native American boarding schools operating in both Canada and the United States, with the goal of assimilating Native Americans, Utah, 1900s [723 x 500].

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Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza.

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On This Day in 1945, the Red Army Captured Warsaw, Poland

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Norman Le Brocq was the leader of the Jersey Communist Party and the head of a resistance movement during the German occupation of the Channel Islands. He later expressed frustration that his efforts had been ignored, whereas officials who helped deport Jews and other prisoners were knighted.

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Officials in England examine fingerprints to see if they match a bottle they found next to a toddler's cot. The girl had been abducted, raped, and had her head smashed against a well. Over 40,000 fingerprints were examined, which was every single male in the town over the age of fifteen.

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French General Henri Dumesnil toasts Charles Sweeny, an American mercenary, before his departure to Morocco to fight in the Rif War. Sweeny was the leader of a 17-man squadron of Americans who bombed Moroccan villages and cities for the cause of the white man's civilization, 1925 [932 x 1024].

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On This Day in 1945, the Red Army Captured Warsaw, Poland

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The founding members of the Iron Guard, fascist movement in Romania, pose for a group photo. The Iron Guard was founded in 1927, and would reach a membership of nearly 300,000 in the late 1930s [1000 x 627].

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Buffalo Calf Road Woman is a Native American warrior who is credited with helping kill U.S. Army Colonel George Custer during the American Indian Wars. Custer was responsible for massacring Native American civilians and allowing his men to commit mass rape against indigenous women.

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Three Chicago teenagers are photographed after their arrest for robbing and murdering an elderly man in an apparent thrill-killing. The murder caught national attention at the time. All three teens were released from prison within 10 years. All three met different fates afterwards (1965).

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She's a Coffee Addict and an Occasional Drug User (by pantamonte)

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Dreemurr Kids (by departedetermination)

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A long line of Dutchmen volunteering to join the Waffen-SS. Between 22,000-25,000 Dutchmen volunteered to fight in the Waffen-SS, more than any in Western Europe. Contrary to popular myths, the majority of them were middle class and true believers who sought to establish a New Europe (1941).

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Captured Chinese soldiers beg for their lives to a South Korean soldier, thinking they are going to be executed (Korean War, 1951).

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The Royal Children (by guplrki)

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The death mask of Maximilien Robespierre. He was one of the key figures in the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror (1914).

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Extremely Rare French W

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Troll Chara (by emihead)

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German student Kalistros Thielecke has his mugshot taken after murdering his mother, whom he stabbed 17 times. He later joined the Dirlewanger Brigade, an SS unit composed of convicted violent criminals. They committed atrocities so brutal that even other SS units were horrified (1930).

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Four SS men pose for a group photo in the Treblinka extermination camp. Each one of them personally committed mass murder. Paul Bredow (leftmost) shot 50 Jews every day for target practice. Josef Hirtreiter (rightmost) smashed the heads of infants against walls, 1940s [840 x 557].

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Bryant Bowles holds his daughter at a pro-segregation protest. Bowles, the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, said his daughter would never attend a school with Negroes as long as there is breath in my body and gunpowder will burn (Delaware, 1954).

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This is U.S. General Jacob Smith. During the Philippine-American War, he ordered his troops to kill everyone after being ambushed. He told his Major I wish you to kill and burn. When the officer asked for an age limit, Smith replied 10 years. His troops would massacre at least 2000 civilians.

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German student Kalistros Thielecke has his mugshot taken after murdering his mother, whom he stabbed 17 times. He later joined the Dirlewanger Brigade, an SS unit composed of convicted violent criminals. They committed atrocities so brutal that even other SS units were horrified (1930).

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Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is strapped to a post moments before his execution by a firing squad for war crimes. Dostler was convicted of having 15 POWs summarily executed (Italy, December 1, 1945)

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A group of Filipino men point to a well in which women and children were thrown, then crushed with rocks, during a massacre committed by Japanese occupation forces. Between October 1944 and May 1945, the Japanese slaughtered nearly 25,000 civilians in the Batangas Province.

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A photo of Englishmen Peter Poole after his arrest for murdering his black houseboy in Kenya. Poole was one of countless Kenya cowboys, young British men who moved to Kenya so they could hunt and kill black people for sport (British Kenya, 1960).

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Soft Paws (by milkgrids)

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Hot Chocolate (by dynjir)

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Liberian commander Jungle Jabbah (middle w/sunglasses) poses with his men. During the First Liberian Civil War, they raped, tortured, enslaved, murdered, and cannibalized hundreds of civilians. Jabbah would sometimes force the widows of his victims to boil the hearts of their dead husbands.

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A photo of General Jacob Smith. During the Philippine-American War, he ordered his troops to kill all Filipinos after an ambush, stating I wish you to kill and burn. When his subordinate requested an age limit, Smith replied 10 years. At least 2,000 civilians were killed, 1900 [750 x 1024].

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LISA Game Covers (by vinegardraws)

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A board counting the number of Japanese holdouts killed by the Guam Combat Patrol. By April 1946, they had 176 kills, but only 12 captures. In turned out the patrol, which consisted entirely of indigenous people, hated the Japanese so much that they were killing holdouts even when they surrendered.

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The Red Army raises the flag over Budapest, Hungary. Other than Nazi Germany and the Independent State of Croatia, Hungary was the only Axis Power in Europe which fought to the bitter end. Yesterday was the 79th anniversary of the flight of the remaining German forces in Hungary.

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Presents (by uma_psd)

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Arthur William Hodge was a British plantation owner, slave owner, and serial killer whose victims were his own slaves. He brutally tortured them, including multiple children. According to surviving slaves, Hodge once dunked a 10-year-old boy in boiling liquor until his skin peeled off.

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Alabama Governor and presidential candidate George Wallace lies on the ground after being shot. The shooting effectively ended Wallace's campaign and would leave him crippled from the waist down for the rest of his life (Maryland, 1972).

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An artist's depiction of the execution of Nathaniel Gordon, a convicted slave trader. Gordon was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of African men, women, and children. Africans who didn't survive Gordon's voyages would have their bodies thrown overboard (New York, 1862).

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German war criminals are readied for their public executions in front of a massive crowd. A Soviet military tribunal sentenced them to death for their participation in the murders of tens of thousands of Jews and other civilians (Kiev, January 29, 1946).

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In 1954, William Unek massacred 21 people in Africa before escaping. In 1957, he went on a second rampage, claiming another 36 victims. This is Iyumbu Ikumbu, who ended his rampage. Ikumbu somehow held a conversation with Unek for nearly two hours, buying time for the authorities to be notified.

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Mark Twain Saw The Future

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Chara Expressions (by missfujoshilove)

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At Least He's Still Beautiful on the Inside

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Am I Supposed To Feel Bad For These People?

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A group of four recently orphaned boys sit at a county prosecutor's office after telling officials about the murder of their parents. The family were resting alongside Route 66 during a road trip when a man arrived and attacked them as they were sleeping, Arizona, 1961 [1238 x 1188].

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Strongest Fascist vs. Weakest Communist

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Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo's First Prison Mugshot

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Buzzo's Arc in a Nutshell

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Obligatory Reminder That The British Ruin Everything

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Four SS men pose for a group photo in the Treblinka extermination camp. Each one of them personally committed mass murder. Paul Bredow (leftmost) shot 50 Jews every day for target practice. Josef Hirtreiter (rightmost) smashed the heads of infants against walls (1940s).

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Canadian Press When Nazis Die:

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Some Good News

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Christmas In TS!Underswap (by emihead)

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Arthur William Hodge was a British plantation owner, slave owner, and serial killer whose victims were his own slaves. He brutally tortured them, including multiple children. According to surviving slaves, Hodge once dunked a 10-year-old boy in boiling liquor until his skin peeled off.

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Olof Palme was the uncle of Sweden's left-wing Prime Minister and namesake. However, he was almost nothing like his nephew, being a racist proto-fascist. The elder Palme viewed the Finns as racially inferior savages, claiming that in every Finn there hides a bit of barbarian, 1918 [513 x 408].

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Bryant Bowles holds his daughter at a pro-segregation protest. Bowles, the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, said his daughter would never attend a school with Negroes as long as there is breath in my body and gunpowder will burn, Delaware, 1954 [1200 x 965].

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Father Hans Schmidt was a Catholic priest who emigrated from Germany due to scandals. In 1913, he gained international notoriety for murdering a woman, raping her and drinking her blood as she died. For this, he became the first and only Catholic priest to be executed in the United States.

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Four SS men pose for a group photo in the Treblinka extermination camp. Each one of them personally committed mass murder. Paul Bredow (leftmost) shot 50 Jews every day for target practice. Josef Hirtreiter (rightmost) smashed the heads of infants against walls (1940s).

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The Tennessee State Capitol yesterday

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The Red Army raises the flag over Budapest, Hungary. Other than Nazi Germany and the Independent State of Croatia, Hungary was the only Axis Power in Europe which fought to the bitter end. Yesterday was the 79th anniversary of the flight of the remaining German forces in Hungary.

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During the civil war in Mandatory Palestine, Palestinian guerrillas were surprised when, of all people, roughly 100 to 200 British soldiers and police officers in the Mandate joined their ranks. The men had deserted their posts to help them. In contrast, only 20 deserters fought for Israel.

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A long line of Dutchmen volunteering to join the Waffen-SS. Between 22,000-25,000 Dutchmen volunteered to fight in the Waffen-SS, more than any in Western Europe. Contrary to popular myths, the majority of them were middle class and true believers who sought to establish a New Europe (1941).

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Strongest Fascist vs. Weakest Communist

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The Virgin Noelle vs The Chad Frisk (by u/burning_toast_)

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One Last Ride (by brandonzuckerman)

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A group of SS men smile for a photo together in the recreational SS colony in Kleinobringen. The colony was not far from Buchenwald concentration camp, where over 56,000 people were killed. In front of them is a foosball table (1940).

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Chara With Different Hairstyles (by 46)

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There Is No Escape from the Hugs (by uma_psd)

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Arthur William Hodge was a British plantation owner, slave owner, and serial killer whose victims were his own slaves. He brutally tortured them, including multiple children. According to surviving slaves, Hodge once dunked a 10-year-old boy in boiling liquor until his skin peeled off.

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Japanese serial rapist, serial killer, Navy veteran, and self-confessed war criminal Yoshio Kodaira, whose face is concealed with a straw hat, is escorted into court. In addition to killing several Japanese women, Kodaira said he committed various war crimes while in China, 1947 [1206 x 1414].

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