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Old thread: Preferably high resolution stuff with a caption.

>Vienna in 1900

Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand

German WW1 ace, Manfred von Richthofen, known as the 'Red Baron'

Lincoln meeting with General McClellan during the Maryland Campaign of 1862

Robert E. Lee

Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr

French and American sharing food, 1944

pre WWII polish police riot gear

Snipers fighting in the village of Belloy-en-Santerre, 1918

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mountain infantry

German soldiers captured during fight in village, 1918

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French soldiers after having recaptured Fort Douaumont, 1916

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>mfw aryan women near

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Russia reminds me of Kansas. A lot.

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French soldiers of the 359th Infantry Regiment on "hell's path" (road) taking cover behind earth works on June 11, 1918 in Courcelles-Epayelles. The man facing the camera is Sergeant Jules Heme. In the background is a destroyed Saint-Chamond tank which was disabled by a 77mm shell and soon destroyed by 3 more shells which set it alight.
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Same position, a little while later after having been hit directly by shells...
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afaik, this is a Polish officer, captured by soviet troops during the Polish-Soviet War

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A more well known photo. From a different position, the man in the foreground with his legs torn off is Jules Héme, killed at age 30
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Colonel Desgrées du Lou holding the torn flag of the 65th Infantry Regiment moments before his death on 25th September 1915 at Mesnil-les-Hurlus.

>"On the eve of the attack, on 24 September 1915, Colonel Degrées du Lou had read in front of his soldiers the order of the day of the general who had asked him "if he could count on the 65th" and what he had told him answered "until death"."

>"On the morning of the 25th he attended a mass with 1,500 soldiers, which he had commanded. At the time of the attack, his regiment emerged from the trenches, staggered in 4 assault waves. At the head of the third wave, the colonel climbed onto the parapet, holding in his hand the flag of the 65th. Motionless under the fire, he sees the dead and the wounded crowd in front of the intact network of barbed wire drawn by the Germans during the night. For five minutes - witness the survivors - he will give the orders: left, right, himself admiring the troop. With it, he rushes, a bullet strikes him, he falls dead stiff. The flag was narrowly saved when a German counter-attack was about to seize it."

>"It was the Germans who buried him on 29 September with the honors of the war. Despite the precautions taken by the Bavarian Red Cross for the identification of the tomb, it was never found ."

1989, fall of the Berlin Wall

An unknown Bulgarian veteran, who fought in the battle for mount Shipka (1877) against the Ottoman turks, and in the freedom war and the balcan wars

Bulgarian soldiers on a patrol, Baba mountain, 1917. Armed with rifles Manlicher M95

skipped leg day wtf

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Ol' Blue Eyes

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Palm Springs, California

Israel

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is this aldo moro? or some priest or cardinal?

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Yeah that's Aldo Moro

Seemed like a crazy time in Italy back then

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