“Will He Throw It?” American cartoon about Adolf Hitler starting a war because of Danzig, published one day before the German invasion of Poland (August 31, 1939)FayannG

“Will He Throw It?” American cartoon about Adolf Hitler starting a war because of Danzig, published one day before the German invasion of Poland (August 31, 1939)

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A French reservist gives a farewell kiss to his wife before war mobilization during the Sudetenland Crisis, September 1938

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“Will He Throw It?” American cartoon about Adolf Hitler starting a war because of Danzig, published one day before the German invasion of Poland (August 31, 1939)

A French reservist gives a farewell kiss to his wife before war mobilization during the Sudetenland Crisis, September 1938

A French reservist gives a farewell kiss to his wife before war mobilization during the Sudetenland Crisis, September 1938

A French reservist gives a farewell kiss to his wife before war mobilization during the Sudetenland Crisis, September 1938 (1224x923)

Soviet Germans going for a walk in the Volga German ASSR, 1939

Aftermath photos of the German ‘terror bombing’ of Belgrade during the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, 1941

Soviet revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky (second from left) with his Cheka agents, the first secret police organization in the Soviet Union. The Cheka would gain international infamy for the Red Terror during the Russian Civil War. (1919)

Soviet revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky (second from left) with his Cheka agents, the first secret police organization in the Soviet Union. The Cheka would gain international infamy for the Red Terror during the Russian Civil War. (1919)(1062x708)

“Have you read? We, Germans, are not the pure-blooded race?!” Austrian-Czech cartoon mocking Jews for being “more German than the Germans” because of assimilation and secularism within Austria-Hungary (1904)

“The Mad Dogs of Fascism” Soviet cartoon showing Nikolai Bukharin and Leon Trotsky being controlled by Nazism, published during the Great Purge (1938)

An ethnic Italian refugee leaving Yugoslavia during the postwar Istrian–Dalmatian exodus, September 1947

Yugoslavia’s new leader, Josip Broz Tito, at his office in Belgrade, 1947

Yugoslavia’s new leader, Josip Broz Tito, at his office in Belgrade, 1947 (1080x1309)

Deported Serbian women and children arrive at Daruvar concentration camp during WW2, Independent State of Croatia, 1942

“The Crime of the Ages. Who Did It?” American cartoon showing European states blaming each other for starting World War 1, 1914

An elderly German Volkssturm member holds his outdated Mannlicher rifle that he was issued, October 1944

An elderly German Volkssturm member holds his outdated Mannlicher rifle that he was issued, October 1944 (1024x1400)

Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin and Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka pose for a photo after signing a neutrality pact in Moscow, April 1941

“The Motherland Calls!” Soviet poster during WW2, 1941

Yugoslav footballers reaction to the announcement that president Josip Broz Tito has died. (4 May 1980)

“Reunion in Vienna” American cartoon about the German annexation of Austria, March 1938

Austrian and German officials removing a border barrier during Anschluss, March 1938

Austrian and German officials removing a border barrier during Anschluss, March 1938 (1300x911)

Bulgarian assassin Vlado Chernozemski at a Ustaše training camp in Hungary, a few months before his assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, 1934

A confrontation between a German civilian and a French soldier during the French-Belgian occupation of Germany’s Ruhr region, 1923