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Hitler with unidentified Nazis. ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned the flames of World War Two, a series of chilling photos from insid...

Nazi party rally Nuremburg. ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned the flames of World War Two, a series of chilling photos from inside Na...

The Nazi Salute at School (1934). Children were indoctrinated early on. ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned the flames of World War Two...

General Friedrich Christiansen, commander-in-chief of the Nazi-German forces in the Netherlands. ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned th...

Nazi party rally grounds (1934). ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned the flames of World War Two, a series of chilling photos from insi...

Franklin_Roosevelt_signing_declaration_of_war_against_Germany. ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned the flames of World War Two, a serie...

Ernst R?shm 1933. ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned the flames of World War Two, a series of chilling photos from inside Nazi Germany...

Heinrich Himmler inspects a prisoner of war camp in Russia, circa. ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned the flames of World War Two, a s...

Hermann Goering appoints SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler as Gestapo leader. Berlin, April 1934. ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned th...

101st Airborne Division WW2. ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned the flames of World War Two, a series of chilling photos from inside N...

Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States - Kroll Opera House, Berlin, on December 11th 1941. ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the declarations that fanned...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

EMOTIONAL COLOURISED footage showing American troops who were prisoners of war in Vietnam returning home has resurfaced this week, including the repat...

A U-boat under attack by a U.S. Navy PBM in the South Atlantic, May 1943. U-43, under the command of L?zth???s old first watch officer, Hans-Joachim S...

The sinking of the Swedish freighter Sicilia. This sinking was unusual in that L?zth attacked and sank Sicilia in accordance with the obsolete Prize R...

Josef Dick???s shark hangs from the bridge railing. The hunt and capture of this shark was a welcome diversion in an otherwise boring patrol. It meant...

Wolfgang L?zth in an unguarded moment on the bridge of U-181. He is wearing what had become the standard uniform for crews in the Indian Ocean, shorts...

L?zth and Lothar Engel, U-181???s doctor. Engel and most of the crew have just received the Iron Cross; L?zth is wearing his new Knight???s Cross with...

Another shot of U-181???s bridge taken from the main deck. The crew has broken ranks early, but it was an excusable breach of decorum under the circum...

L?zth and his crew were prominent in wartime publications after their return. It was all part of the heromaking process. FASCINATING black and white i...

The petty officers of U-181. They were strangers when the boat was commissioned in 1942; after eighteen months and two long patrols they were more lik...

The Iron Cross Boat. U-9, commissioned in August 1935, was the second of three boats to bear the number. Weddigen???s Iron Cross can be seen at the si...

A rather scruffy L?zth in 1940, standing under U-9???s port running light. The elements have stripped the paint from Weddigen???s cross, but the metal...

An Allied convoy catches the North Atlantic sun. Hundreds of these convoys crossed the Atlantic during the war; most of them in the early years lost s...

A quiet moment in the bridge of U-138. Franz Gramitzki, her first watch officer, is seated at right. A very young Theodor Petersen is above him and in...

Wolfgang L?zth on the bridge of U-43. He looks cold because he is cold. During his last patrol as captain of U-43 in January 1942, his crew had to kno...

Wolfgang and Ilse L?zth. Of all that Wolfgang L?zth ever did, his marriage was to him the most important and the most satisfying. It made him supremel...

The commissioning ceremony of U-181, May 1942. L?zth is on the left, his crew (officers in front) opposite him. By most accounts it was an enjoyable o...

An equator-crossing certificate. Dozens of these, lettered by hand with ordinary ink on ordinary paper, were awarded to crewmen after U-181 crossed th...

L?zth in the bridge of U-181 as she returned from her first war patrol in January 1943. Twelve pennants are flying behind him, one for each of the twe...

The funeral procession for Wolfgang L?zth, shot to death by his own sentry two days before. The six officers of the honor guard are barely visible bes...

AN INCREDIBLE VIDEO from the 1930s in which a doctor claims to have invented a machine that can compare the emotions of blonde, brunette and redheaded...

AN INCREDIBLE VIDEO from the 1930s in which a doctor claims to have invented a machine that can compare the emotions of blonde, brunette and redheaded...

AN INCREDIBLE VIDEO from the 1930s in which a doctor claims to have invented a machine that can compare the emotions of blonde, brunette and redheaded...