#second world war

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A Marine fires his Thompson submachine gun at enemy positions on Peleliu, September 1944.

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Ethnographic map of Ukraine, circa 1945, that was circulated among displaced people in post-WWII Germany. Millions of Ukrainians had been taken by the Nazis for slave labour between 1941 and 1945, and had nowhere to go at the end of the war. X

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

Spot on, by Ben Jennings for The Guardian.

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[stone-cold-groove]

Cutaway drawing of an RAF Supermarine Spitfire - 1938.

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British Woman’s Royal Army Corp member shows off her new tattoo to fellow enlistees.

[lostmementomemori]

Allied soldiers mocking Hitler (Balcony of the Reich Chancellery, 1945)

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Things World War II was about:

-the post-ww1 reorganization of Europe

-Japan and the USA's long-term cold war over who gets to claim the South Pacific as their sphere of influence

Things World War II was not about:

-saving the Jews

-fighting the Communists

-defeating white supremacy