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World War 2’s Most Haunting Images – A Historical Thread 🧵

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1 . During World War II, In 1943, the Bengal famine killed 3 million Indians. Churchill diverted food to British troops and blocked aid.

COLONIAL CRUELTY AT ITS WORST.

2 . Photo of Australian (Allied forces) soldiers after their release from a Japanese prisoner of war camp in 1945.

3 . Polish women were forcibly taken and transported in trucks to Nazi-controlled brothels, where they were subjected to repeated sexual violence

4 . A frozen German soldier used as a checkpoint "mark" .

5 . A pile of human bones and skulls lies on the grounds of the Majdanek concentration camp soon after its liberation by Russian troops in 1944.

6 . A victim of the Hiroshima bombing shows his wounds.

7 . This is a permanent shadow of a man at the exact moment the atomic bomb "Little Boy" went off over Hiroshima, 1945.

8 . An Australian Special Forces operator about to be beheaded by Japanese forces .

9 . A starving child lying on the street of the Warsaw ghetto, as photographed by a sergeant in the German armed forces, circa 1941.

10 . All but one of the 22 Nazi leaders prosecuted during the Nuremberg war crimes trials, October 1946.

11 . Soviet children and women being shot by SS.

12 . Prisoners of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp's Boelcke barracks killed during a bombing raid, April 1945.

13 . German doctor Fritz Klein stands amid the corpses of prisoners in one of the mass graves at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp soon after its liberation by British troops in April 1945.

14 . A Russian mother looks after her starved, dying children in the suburbs on Leningrad

15 . Soviet spy laughing through his execution.

No FEAR ON HIS FACE 😲

16 . Soviet citizens looking for their relatives after being brutality killed by retreating German soldiers.

17 . A young mother is pulled by her hair while Japanese forces chop her and her babies head off.

18 . Eyeglasses of prisoners killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp, circa 1945.

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