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World War II Military Ceremonies

Historic images depict military figures and ceremonies from World War II, reflecting leadership and military parades that showcase the era's military culture.

Impressions from the USSR 1972. Liberation Day from the Nazi Regime, UZB, Uzbekistan, Asia
Impressions from the USSR 1972. Liberation Day from the Nazi Regime, UZB, Uzbekistan, Asia
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Anefo photo collection. Parade Regiment Shock troops in Middelburg (1945). Parade of the Shock troops Regiment in Middelburg. In the foreground the ticket guard .. March 1945. Middelburg, Zeeland
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Josif stalin
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Massachusetts State Troopers in riot gear assault a protester at an anti Vietnam War demonstration in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA in April, 1970. The demonstration turned into a riot as police forcibly cleared the streets.
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Adolf Hitler (* 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn) ( 30 April 1945 Berlin), Leader of the Nazi Party, Reich Chancellor from 1933, also self-appointed "Fuehrer" and head of state of Germany
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The meeting of the Hungarian partisan paratroopers with the troops of the Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front. 1944
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Police Sequesters The Sticks Of The Banners Of The Demonstrators, 1972.
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Mussolini Excavates With A Pick-Axe Starts Work On New Aerodrome - Signor Mussolini inaugurating the excavation work with a pick-axe.Signor Mussolini inaugurated with a pick-axe the work of construction a big new aerodrome at Magliana Vecchia, near the site chosen for the Rome Universal Exposition of 1941. March 27, 1937.
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Copenhagen. July 31, 1952. (Photo by Look Magazine).
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Anefo photo collection. Dutch prisoners war return home Station Enschede. 30, 1940
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Anefo photo collection. Recordings ridden police. September 30, 1955
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Nazi Youth Rally, Germany
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Members of the SS visiting the Eiffel Tower, Paris, July 1940. The photographer is unknown.
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survivors at the Auschwitz death camp, liberated by the Red Army in January 1945
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The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 - September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour. Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements, so-called 'incidents'. Yet the two sides, for a variety of reasons, refrained from fighting a total war. In 1931, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria by Japan's Kwantung Army followed the Mukden Incident. The last of these inciden
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Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command Pilots and ground crew gather around the fuselage Balkenkreuz from No 87 Squadron's first kill, a Heinkel He111 shot down by Flight Lieutenant Robert Voase-Jeff on 2 November 1939. Pilot Officer Dennis David, who damaged another Heinkel on the same day, autographs the trophy. Watching on the right is a new member of the squadron, Pilot Officer Roland Beamont (in flying helmet, with initials on his Irvin flying jacket), a future ace and famous postwar test-pilot.
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A young Chinese patriot gives a pep talk to a fascinated streel audience in China. He is telling them they must al help to drive the hated Japanese aggressors into the sea. August 13, 1942.
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Hoitler at a Nazi gathering in Germany circa 1930-34
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Adolf Hitler Nazi party leader circa 1928/30
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Imaginary drawing of execution of Edith Louisa Cavell 1865 to 1915 British nurse and humanitarian on October 12 1915. Inset Edith Cavell at home with her dogs From The War Illustrated Album deLuxe published London 1916
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Group of refugees walking on the road, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, 1945
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Wearing riot helmets and Nazi armbands, American Nazi Party Members rally to protest the signing of the treaty transfering control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama, Washington, DC, 9/7/1977. (Photo by Warren K Leffler/US News & World Report Collection/GG Vintage Images/UIG)
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09/30/1946. Hans Heinrich Lammers, Hitler's right-hand man, at the Nuremberg trials.
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U.S. Soldiers read of Hitler's death in an 'Extra' edition of 'Starts and Stripes', May 2, 1945. The combat soldiers were at the Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club in Paris. World War 2. (BSLOC_2014_8_103)
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Valentín González, 'El Campesino', fue un militar comunista español que tuvo una destacada participación en la Guerra Civil Española.
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Italian fascist postcard showing a female fascist playing a trumpet circa 1940
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Nazism. Burning of books unrelated with the regime. Drawing.
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Guerra civil española (1936-1939). Burgos. Proclamación en el Gobierno Militar del general Franco (1892-1975) como Jefe de gobierno del Estado español. 1 de octubre de 1937. Francisco Franco Bahamonde.
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Large posters along Nanking Street in Shanghai, China. Posters were used within this major shopping district until the spring of 1967.
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Lieut. Cutler V.C. place wreath on Rock of Remembrance at Mellis Shrine. August 10, 1942.
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Sailors in the National Maritime Union hiring hall for deck and engine hands, watching the board where the jobs are posted. New York, ca. 1955.
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Finns Get Naval Base Back:Two Finnish guards at the frontier at Porkkala Grin as they indicate a frontier sign outside the naval base at Porkkala, in Southern Finland, which was rent to Russia for 50 years after the war. Now Russia's announcement that she is going to return the base to Finland has caused great joy in this small country. The expression on the face of the guard shows how they fell about it! September 20, 1955. (Photo by United Press Photo).
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10/02/1937. Bombing over Valencia.
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Photographic print of a member of the Hitler Youth saluting. Dated 20th Century
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In the style and spirit of the Hitler Youth (HJ) and the so-called Heimattreue Jugend, old and neo-Nazis met in the Teutoburg Forest accompanied by the Viking Youth with drums and fanfares, Germany, Europe
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Captured Nazi Flag from U-805 , Flags. Photographs of the First Naval District
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Munitions Production on the Home Front, 1914-1918
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05/31/1942. The Bishop of Lisbon, the Ambassador of Spain, Don Nicolás Franco and his Wife, and Other Personalities, Attend the Delivery of the Castle of Saint George to the Portuguese Legion.
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Lansing, Michigan, Members of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, rally at the Michigan state capitol building. State police erected chain-link fences and deployed hundreds of police officers to prevent clashes with anti-Nazi protesters.
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BIRD'S EYE VIEW (EV001995_H)
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History of the German Democratic Republic. Parade to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the GDR. October 7, 1989.
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Lt. Merle D. Richey, Dayton, Ohio And Rockway Park, N.J., Describes The Mission Of The Day In A Letter To His Wife, Mrs. Sheila Richey, Rockway Park, N.J., Before Turning In For The Night. The Next Day He Will Be Ready For Another Combat Flight. A Veteran
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Rally of flag carrying Nazi party members circa 1934 Germmany.
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