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Japanese female pearldiver ca. 1900 [506x660]

The frozen corpse of a German soldier being used as an impromptu street sign near

Bodies of student protesters killed by the People's Liberation Army lie in the Tiananmen

NSFL - Unknown prisoner being executed in China (ca. 1912) [1260x729]

The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, Marion, Indiana, 1930 - [3193x2564]

Lithuanian nationalists clubbing Jewish Lithuanians to death - Kovno, Lithuania June

A US Marine still clutches the knife with which he killed a Japanese soldier, in

Mary Ann Vecchio kneels over the body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot by the

Led Zeppelin getting presented with their gold albums in a sex club in Stockholm,

A German soldier holds a camera, standing in front of a destroyed British Mark IV

Bodies of dead civilians lie among mangled bicycles near Tiananmen Square in the

Frank Embree about to be lynched, Fayette, Missouri, July 22, 1899, see comment.

Buchenwald, 1945 by Margaret Bourke-White. [1280x1335]

WWII --- U.S. soldiers in combat with tank support (Germany - 1945) [1200x985]

An American soldier gazes out in company with a dead German soldier and a Moaning

On Christmas Day, 25 December, the Ceaușescus were tried before a drumhead court-martial.

World War 2, Japanese Unit 731. Pregnant woman infected with syphilis and vivisected

Japanese soldiers murder a group of Allied Indian prisoners, WWII Asia. [800x546]

WWII --- U.S. soldier killed while crossing a pontoon bridge over the Rur River (near

Mark II female Tank Number 598 advancing with Infantry at Vimy Ridge [640 × 505]

Autopsy of the Swedish King Charles XII, or "Carolus Rex", from 1916. The

One of the photos unpublished until 2003 of a mass execution of French partisans

Bomb shelter uncovered in Dresden in 1946 [800 × 817]

A critically wounded Marine is given an on-the-spot transfusion by a Navy Corpman

Dutch miners washing each others backs in the showers, a daily ritual at the end

[NSFW] Sally Rand (1904-1979), famous burlesque/fan dancer and star of the 1933 Chicago

a dead German soldier outside a dugout near Beaumont Hamel, November 1916 [800×585]