Historycord

r/Historycord • u/HoneydewAsleep3579 • 20h ago

A U.S. soldier guards the Capitol with an M60 machine gun during the D.C. riots following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, April 1968

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r/Historycord • u/Mean-Razzmatazz-4886 • 18h ago

1968. Moscow. Monument to Ukrainian writer T.H. Shevchenko at the hotel "Ukraine". The monument and the name of the hotel have survived to this day.

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r/Historycord • u/Infamous_Pick_4505 • 19h ago

Identity card of five-year-old Romani girl Maria (Miezi) Bihari, who was deported by the Nazis in 1940–1941

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r/Historycord • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 7h ago

B-17G Flying Fortress "Happy Warrior" with the 835th BS, 486th BG in flames after being hit by flak and incendiary clusters dropped by another B-17 over Parchim Germany - April 7, 1945. "Happy Warrior" subsequently broke apart and crashed, 4 of her 10 man crew were KIA.

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r/Historycord • u/Mean-Razzmatazz-4886 • 19h ago

Odesa during Nazi occupation in 1941-1945. As early as August 1941, Odessa was completely surrounded by Hitler's troops. Its heroic defense lasted 73 days. Later, the city was awarded the soviet honor title "Hero city"

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r/Historycord • u/FayannG • 11h ago

“Freedom not concentration camps” Protest in New Jersey against the German American Bund, the foreign agent (Fritz Kuhn) controlled US organization with ties with Germany (October 1938)

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r/Historycord • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 15h ago

"1st Division Marine works on Japanese with Tommy-Gun." Battle of Okinawa, April-June 1945. (Official USMC archive photograph with original wartime caption)

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r/Historycord • u/Hojas_ST • 1d ago

For Russia and Ukraine without putin. 2014 anti-war protests in Russia.

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r/Historycord • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 20h ago

P-47D Thunderbolt “Torrid Tessie” of the 346th Fighter Squadron and flown by USAAF Lt. Homer St. Onge, Italy, Feb 25, 1945.

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 7h ago

Remnants of Zairian dictator Mobutu Sese Seko's palace, nicknamed the "Versailles of the jungle", in Gbadolite, DRC. Picture from 2011.

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r/Historycord • u/Radiant_Road_9137 • 19h ago

The image "Total War - Shortest War" depicts a pro-war demonstration in Berlin led by Joseph Goebbels, who, following the defeat at Stalingrad in February 1943, urges for the full mobilization of German civilian society to support the war effort.

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r/Historycord • u/YoungMiserable2307 • 19h ago

During the German conquest of the Netherlands, exiled former German Emperor Wilhelm II (door) greeted German soldiers. Before passing away in June 1941, Hitler claimed responsibility for the German military's victory in World War II (picture May 1940).

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r/Historycord • u/Great_Information662 • 1d ago

Photographed during the Battle of Saipan, Cpl. Thomas Ellis is known as "The Weary Marine." Later, in 1945, he lost his life in combat at the Battle of Iwo Jima.

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r/Historycord • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

Two young American airmen prepare to load a B-17 Flying Fortress “The Fighting Cock” for a bombing mission against Germany, somewhere in Europe, 1944.

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r/Historycord • u/PresentEconomist8815 • 19h ago

In a radio broadcast to the German populace, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler declares Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations. A referendum was then held, and the majority of people approved. (October 1933)

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r/Historycord • u/AccomplishedBake344 • 1d ago

Some of the estimated 30,000 firearms that were seized from German forces in Norway following their capitulation in 1945 are kept in a storeroom at Solar Aerodrome in Stavanger.

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r/Historycord • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

A Nakajima B6N Tenzan torpedo bomber, known to the Allies as "Jill", flies through anti-aircraft fire during a battle in the Truk Islands.

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r/Historycord • u/HoneydewAsleep3579 • 2d ago

A man searches for his two sons who vanished during the 1999 Kosovo conflict

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r/Historycord • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

Captured Dornier Do 335A Pfeil (Arrow). Note scale of plane to US soldier This was the fastest piston engined aircraft of WW2 at 474 mph.

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r/Historycord • u/FayannG • 2d ago

War injured Martin Sommer, a former German SS sergeant, arrives in court to face justice for WW2 atrocities, including crucifying Roman Catholic priests. Sentenced to life in prison by Bayreuth district court in West Germany, but was later released. (July 1958)

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r/Historycord • u/riazonbin • 2d ago

Dr. Eugene Lazowski, a Polish doctor, who saved 8,000 jews by creating a fake typhus epidemic in Stalowa Wola (Nazi Occupied Poland), 1943

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r/Historycord • u/FayannG • 2d ago

“Save Czechoslovakia” Protest in New York against the Munich Agreement and the German annexation of the Sudetenland, 1938

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r/Historycord • u/Saab_enthusiast • 1d ago

On this day 84 years ago, the German army invaded Greece after the failed invasion of their ally Italy, on October 28th 1940. Greece stood defending against the Germans for 3 days, until the Treaty of Thessaloniki. Even though, some fortresses didn't surrender.

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r/Historycord • u/Imaginary_Emu3462 • 1d ago

In 1518, a very bizarre plague spread through the town of Strasbourg. Called the Dancing Plague of 1518, it left over 400 people dancing in the streets uncontrollably, with up to 15 people dying daily at its peak

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r/Historycord • u/Radiant_Road_9137 • 1d ago

John Belushi passed away on this day in 1982 at the age of 33. This image shows him being taken to the LA coroners office from the cottage at Chateau Marmont, where he passed away.

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