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Also Comes in Khaki! – Fascinating British WW2 Adverts

Also Comes in Khaki! – Fascinating British WW2 Adverts

"All you fellows seem to take the whole business so casually and yet so capably." ...
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Women At War: Lush Kodachrome Photos Of Engineers At The Douglas Aircraft Company

Women At War: Lush Kodachrome Photos Of Engineers At The Douglas Aircraft Company

"American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, California" ...
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A Second Bill of Rights To Save Racist America From Fascism (1944)

A Second Bill of Rights To Save Racist America From Fascism (1944)

On January 11 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used his State of the Union address to outline his Second Bill of Rights. ...
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Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Jazz was entartete musik (“degenerate music”), or as Nazi spin doctor Joseph Goebbels put it, jazz was "jungle music" ...
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‘I Will Avenge Their Deaths’: Reading An Auschwitz Inmate’s Buried Letters

‘I Will Avenge Their Deaths’: Reading An Auschwitz Inmate’s Buried Letters

“I wanted and I want to live, to revenge the deaths of Dad and Mum, and that of my beloved little sister Nelli" - Marcel Nadjari, Auschwitz 1944 ...
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The Extraordinary WW2 Sketchbook of Victor Lundy

The Extraordinary WW2 Sketchbook of Victor Lundy

For D-Day Lundy and his company were thrown into the infantry. Lundy couldn't believe it and recalled during an oral history interview that during lectures, he "never listened, I was busy sketching." But soon, "I sort of took to it. ... war experience just hypnotizes young men." ...
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Portraits of London At War by Toni Frissell – January 1942

Portraits of London At War by Toni Frissell – January 1942

“I became so frustrated with fashions that I wanted to prove to myself that I could do a real reporting job” - Toni Frissell ...
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Tank Training at Fort Knox in 1942

Tank Training at Fort Knox in 1942

In June 1942, Office of War Information photographer Alfred T. Palmer (1906–1993) visited Fort Knox, ...
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Greet the Dawn! – Labour Party Election Posters from the 20th Century

Greet the Dawn! – Labour Party Election Posters from the 20th Century

Industry must serve the people. Not enslave them! ...
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The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

The Banality of Evil : Hannah Arendt On How To See Evil And Survive It

In 1961, The New Yorker commissioned Arendt to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem ...
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Dennis Wheatley, the Prince of Thriller Writers, and How He Helped Defeat the Nazis

Dennis Wheatley, the Prince of Thriller Writers, and How He Helped Defeat the Nazis

Wheatley was pretty well a quasi-fascist during most of the 1930s (Hermann Goering was a fan of his books and once invited him to Germany to meet the Nazi leaders) but somehow, and with the recommendation of his wife who was an MI5 driver, he ended up working in the offices of the War Cabinet. ...
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Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

"I've always felt that photographs for me were primarily for reproduction and for mass distribution. A photograph is something for lots and lots of people to see." ...
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