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Noël Coward Visits an Adelaide Koala Farm in 1940

Noël Coward Visits an Adelaide Koala Farm in 1940

Nobody in England has the faintest idea what the Australians are like, and when I do get back I am going to make it my business to tell them. They are simple and direct and friendly, and their feeling about England is so deep and touching... this really is being a wonderful experience. ...
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Bostonians Recycle Scrap Metal To Win The War (1942)

Bostonians Recycle Scrap Metal To Win The War (1942)

In 1942 Leslie Jones, a Staff photographer for the Boston Herald-Traveler took pictures of locals supporting the fight by collecting scrap metal, cloth, cooking fat, rubber and anything else that could help. ...
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Thomas Mann Explains Why Nazis Foment Anti-Semitism (1940)

Thomas Mann Explains Why Nazis Foment Anti-Semitism (1940)

Anti-Semitism "is nothing but a wrench to unscrew, bit by bit, the whole machinery of our civilization" ...
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A Child’s Life in Wales 1939-1962

A Child’s Life in Wales 1939-1962

What was it like being a child in Wales during the mid 20th Century? Let's see... ...
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Wonderful Colorized Portraits of Russian Fighters In World War 2

Wonderful Colorized Portraits of Russian Fighters In World War 2

Olga Shirnina's stirring colorized pictures of Russians in World War 2 make the past come alive ...
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Survivors of The Sinai Express : European Exiles In Egypt (1944)

Survivors of The Sinai Express : European Exiles In Egypt (1944)

Photographs of Croats who fled the Germans for the heat and dust of Egypt ...
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An Aid Worker’s Snapshots of the El Shatt Croatian Refugee Camp (1944-1946)

An Aid Worker’s Snapshots of the El Shatt Croatian Refugee Camp (1944-1946)

In 1944, Treva Edgerton, a worker with the UNRRA photographed life at the El Shatt refugee camp near the Suez Canal in Egypt ...
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Erwin Blumenfeld – A Free Soul Who Was In Love with Taking Pictures

Erwin Blumenfeld – A Free Soul Who Was In Love with Taking Pictures

“I was an amateur, I am an amateur, and I intend to stay an amateur. To me, an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.” ...
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The Paratrooper’s Selfies : Snapshots Whilst Falling to Earth in 1944

The Paratrooper’s Selfies : Snapshots Whilst Falling to Earth in 1944

In 1944, Picture Post photographer Haywood Magee boarded an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber at RAF Ringway, Cheshire, England. Already onboard were men of the 10th Battalion Parachute Regiment. As one paratrooper prepared to jump, Magee handed him a camera with the instructions to aim it at his face, don’t drop the thing, and click. ...
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When Albert Pierrepoint met Lord Haw-Haw, Albeit Rather Briefly

When Albert Pierrepoint met Lord Haw-Haw, Albeit Rather Briefly

William Joyce, the man with the infamous nickname ‘Lord Haw-Haw’, had a catchphrase as famous as any comedian’s, and had a facial disfigurement in the form of a terrible scar that marked him as a ‘treacherous villain’ as if the words themselves were tattooed across his forehead. ...
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Raping Levitan: Inside The Jewish Department Store Where Nazis In Paris Bought Stolen Goods

Raping Levitan: Inside The Jewish Department Store Where Nazis In Paris Bought Stolen Goods

The Nazis were thieves. Having rounded up the Jews of Paris and marked them for murder, the Germans and their French lickspittles enacted Möbel Aktion, emptying homes once vacated by Jews and selling the spoils. ...
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The Atlantic Wall: The Architecture of Death in Photos

The Atlantic Wall: The Architecture of Death in Photos

"The war will be won or lost on the beaches. We'll have only one chance to stop the enemy and that's while he's in the water ... struggling to get ashore ... everything we have must be on the coast ... the first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive... for the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day" - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, German Army ...
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