Posts Tagged ‘WWII’

123rd Officer Cadet Training Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1942

A group portrait of the R.A. from 1942, an inauspicious time to go through training

What is this photograph showing?

It is chilling once you figure it out

Twenty weeks of WWII at The Atlantic

All sorts of visual surprises remain of one of the most documented moments in history


Chocolat Pupier Asian cultures album, France, 1936

A 1936 collectible album for children, embedded with the politics of its age

What wartime propaganda looked like

How atrocities radicalize moderates and create social unity

Letter from Japan the day WWII ended

My grandfather’s firsthand account of the destruction of Japanese cities


French diary from WWII

The cramped hand suggests a shortage of paper, the mysterious letters and numbers hint at a code

Malcolm Gladwell’s inexplicable indulgence of an anti-Semite

Was the L’Oréal founder and Nazi collaborator merely a pragmatist, as Gladwell contends?

Yen notes and coins: Japan, c1940s

Japanese yen brought home to America after WWII