Nothing Seems As Pretty As The Past.

the-seed-of-europe:

WWI postcard.

lostsplendor:

Lincoln Memorial Construction, 1914-1922 (via Retronaut)

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Letter to Adolf Hitler, written by Gandhi at the outset of the Second World War.

Einstein and his therapist

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” - Hemingway

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mythologyofblue:

“We saw Hiroshima today — or what little is left of it.”

-LIFE’s Bernard Hoffman to the magazine’s long-time picture editor, Wilson Hicks, in New York, September 1945.

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lostsplendor:

Paddington Station, London 1939 (by brizzle born and bred)

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Stacks of cannon balls during The American Civil War

demons:

After being released from Allied detention, German POW Heinz Pelschner reunited with his wife, June 1945.

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histoire-fanatique:

Tribute to Erwin Rommel a.ka The Desert Fox(1891-1944)

It was his leadership of German and Italian forces in the North African campaign that established the legend of the Desert Fox. He is considered to have been one of the most skilled commanders of desert warfare in the conflict. He later commanded the German forces opposing the Allied cross-channel invasion in Normandy. As one of the few generals who consistently fought the Western Allies (he was never assigned to the Eastern Front), Rommel is regarded as having been a humane and professional officer. His Afrikakorps was never accused of war crimes. Soldiers captured during his Africa campaign were reported to have been treated humanely. Furthermore, he ignored orders to kill captured commandos, Jewish soldiers and civilians in all theaters of his command.

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houseofrandom:

Some of the German officers who participated in the 20th July/Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler

Generalfeldmarschall Ludwig Beck, Generalmajor Henning von Tresckow. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris ,Generalfeldmarschall Erwin von Witzleben, General der Infanterie Friedrich Olbricht, General der Infanterie von Stülpnagel, Generaloberst Erich Hoepner, Generalleutnant Paul von Hase