“Croatian Legion - Stalingrad” – 🇭🇷 #Croatian stamp from 1943 depicting soldiers fighting at the Battle of Stalingrad.
The Croatian Legion (Hrvatska Legija) was a unit of the German Wehrmacht - officially the 369th Reinforced Infantry Division - that fought on the #EasternFront during the Second World War.
The unit was composed of Croatian volunteers from the Axis puppet Independent State of #Croatia, whose name you can see at the bottom of the stamp (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska)
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'The Yellow Peril' — American cartoon published in Puck magazine (23 March 1904) comparing an oppressive and backwards Russia with a modern and progressive Japan. Artist: Udo Keppler.
Russia is depicted with a flail labelled 'Absolutism', 'Persecution' and 'Tyranny', while Modern Japan is depicted in the rays of 'Justice', 'Progressiveness', 'Humaneness', 'Enlightenment', 'Tolerance' and 'Religious Liberty'.
Clouds reading 'Finland' and 'Poland' are also depicted in the distance on the Russian side, and victims of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom appear at the bottom left. Beneath Japan is the vanquished figure of 'Medievalism'.
Panamanian illustrations published in 1989 by the Panama Defense Forces.
'The Canal is ours!'
Soldiers of the elite Macho de Monte Infantry Company, one of them wearing a t-shirt reading 'Hasta la muerte comandante coño' (which I'm told in this context means 'Until death, Commander, damn it!')
'What Germany Wants' — British propaganda map from the First World War (ca. 1918) showing a German-dominated 'Central Europe' and 'Central Africa'.
The map was adapted from a similar map published in 'The German Plot Unmasked', an anti-German propaganda book written by French journalist André Chéradame in 1916.
Some details. Area shaded red is territory allegedly sought by Germany as part of its 'German Central Europe and Central Africa Scheme'. Hamburg-Constantinople-Baghdad railway is also shown, plus 'Other Railways', 'Former Colonies' and 'Uncompleted Railways'.
'Does the bicycle make women cruel?' — American cartoon published in the Los Angeles Herald newspaper (13 June, 1897) showing a woman callously cycling over another.
The cartoon illustrated an article about an alleged 'new mania which is afflicting women who ride bicycles', with the author reporting on cases of the mania developing in France.
'The physicians found that the first known case of the mania developed last January … That it was cycling that brought the mania on there seems no question. Only wheelwomen have been afflicted with it, and oddly enough, in every instance, they have been over 30 years of age'.