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Rarely Seen History: Racism and Nazism

This is an attempt to grasp the absurdity of these two interlinked ideologies without showing dead bodies or fighting armies. Instead, I used some rarely published photographs that I find extremely fascinating.

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Farmers waiting for the opening of a slave fair in St. Louis, Missouri (1852).

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Flogged slave showing his wounds (1863).

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Slave torturing devices. The collar may have been used to prevent him from escaping through narrow openings, like windows, etc. (1863)

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Swastika women’s ice hockey team (1916). (As the date of the next post suggests, they didn’t use the swastika as a nazi symbol.)

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Adolf Hitler’s designs for the nazi symbol (1920).

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Mussolini is greated with a giant letter M in a small village in Piemonte (1928).

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Message for Churchill on a German bomb during the Battle of Britain (1940).

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A Canadian Soldier searches Jacob Nacken, the tallest soldier in the German Army, captured at Calais (1944).

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A German Rail Wolf destroying rail tracks in Italy (1944).

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Soviet soldiers with Hitler’s globe at the end of WWII (1945). (Why are they pointing at the US…?)

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Segregation in North Carolina (1950).

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Paula Hitler, Adolf Hitler’s only sibling alive at the time (1954).

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A sign warning white residents in Johannesburg during apartheid times (1956).

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Holocaust survivor lady bonking a skinhead on his skinhead (1985).

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