#circa 1945

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Allied soldiers mocking Hitler (Balcony of the Reich Chancellery, 1945)

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Soviet soldiers shell the Berlin quarter with a Maxim machine gun.

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De Havilland Mosquito XVI, in SEAC (South East Asia Command) colors, 1945.

➤BRITISH AIRCRAFT SERIES: https://dronescapes.video/British

[davidcashuk]

Early 1945

An American sentry guarding the entrance of Balintawak Beer Brewery to prevent anymore GIs from drinking beer. The advance into Manila was temporarily delayed when the first wave of 37th Infantry Division soldiers came across the brewery with its vats of ice cold beer. 🍺

Balintawak Beer Brewery, was a Japanese-owned company that once replaced San Miguel Brewery during WWII. They used this place to brew Asahi beer. 🇯🇵

After the war, the Balintawak Beer Brewery was liberated from the Japanese, and San Miguel Brewery took over again. 🇵🇭

[oldfarmhouse]

The New Yorker Cover - October 27, 1945

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Avenida Dantas Barreto com Avenida Guararapes, Bairro de Santo Antônio- Centro do Recife Em 1945.

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Der Untergang (2004) - Facts and Details I

Here's something starkly different from what I usually post, but I thought about filling the silence of my blog with some tidbits about my favorite movie.

In one of the scenes of this excellent historical drama, we see how, during Eva Braun's letter-monologue to her sister, Adolf Hitler’s (Bruno Ganz) adjutants burn the leader’s personal correspondence. Otto Günsche (Götz Otto, on the right) smokes a cigarette, but upon seeing the leader, reluctantly throws it into the fire.

This directorial choice was dictated by Hitler’s real opinions. In his youth, he was a heavy smoker—he smoked 20 to 40 cigarettes a day—but decided to quit the habit due to financial circumstances. Throughout his career, he was a staunch opponent of smoking. He often expressed concern about the smokers around him, including his lover and later wife, Eva Braun. Although he did not ban smoking in the Wehrmacht ranks, he openly stated his disapproval. A quote from March 2, 1942:

"It is not true that a soldier needs to smoke to survive."

During the height of his party's rule, German doctors conducted the country’s first studies on the harmful effects of smoking, which resulted in funding and later dissemination of the findings. The anti-smoking campaign in Germany lasted throughout the National Socialist rule until the fall of Berlin, depicted in the film.

It is said that even a broken clock is right twice a day. Whatever one may say about the circumstances, the funds for research contributed to the development of medical knowledge on the effects of smoking and were invaluable for the advancement of oncology.

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AI images generated to look like 1945 era photos of two men sitting on a sand dune at the beach.

Bing AI & DALL-E

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- Two women from the WAC, on the back of the photograph : “March 1945. Washington D.C. in cherry blossom time. Germaine (the apartment mate) and I. Love, Billie.”

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In 1945, a Marine shares his water canteen with a little girl on Okinawa. 🪖

The girl had been found inside a cave & was taken to a settlement that was setup to help the local civilian population.

[oktay2k]

Zitat.

Ein Mann, der nicht trainiert, ist kein Mann.

Zitat ende.

GÄNSEHOSEN

[bucklemonster2]

20th Century Paintings part 2 / Schilderijen uit de 20e eeuw deel 2

Previously I posted some old paintings of my great grandfather and his contemporaries. It were works that were not that good, and would be thrown away. Now I present to you his better works that decorate the house of my family members. I took pictures, and I upload them here, because it is important to archive and remember history. Eerder plaatste ik enkele oude schilderijen van mijn overgrootvader en zijn tijdgenoten. Het waren werken die niet zo goed waren en weggegooid zouden worden. Nu presenteer ik u zijn betere werken die het huis van mijn familieleden versieren. Ik heb foto's gemaakt en die upload ik hier, omdat het belangrijk is om de geschiedenis te archiveren en te onthouden.

English and Dutch are in ONE DOCUMENT this time, to save time. Engels en Nederlands zijn in ÉÉN DOCUMENT deze keer, om tijd te besparen.

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RED ARMY enters Danzig, Poland on 30 March 1945

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De Havilland DH.100 Vampire TG/278 tested by Geoffrey de Havilland, Jr. in 1945.

This aircraft, modified and piloted by John Cunningham, broke the altitude record set by Italian pilot Colonel Mario Pezzi ten years earlier in a Caproni Ca.161 biplane (17,083 meters (56,047 feet)).
The new Vampire’s record (18,119 meters (59,446 feet) was set on the 23rd of March 1948

The DH.100 was powered by a centrifugal turbojet based on Sir Frank Whittle’s invention (https://youtu.be/G0T4-XG612Q)

The Vampire was retired in 1990 (Swiss Air Force)

The Vampire was also used by legendary test pilot Eric “Winkle” Brown to set some world records (https://youtu.be/003o4h5__Lw) ➤BRITISH AIRCRAFT VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/British

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https://www.axios.com/2023/07/20/j-r-oppenheimer-movie-new-mexico-hispanics

Henry Herrera witnessed the Trinity Test. Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos: Russell Contreras/Axios, Bettmann/Contributor and Corbis via Getty Images

The mushroom cloud of the Trinity test in New Mexico. | Location: Alamogordo, New Mexico. Photo: Corbis via Getty Images

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Soul mates

Written by Lorelai Fulmer

Romanticizing photos you don't even know

Living in memories from so long ago

You found love in 1945

Weren’t even there but

You remember their eyes

Something about them reminds you of home

Now you are searching for love you’ve never really known

Pulling at memories from your lover’s soul

Writing down stories that they always told

Listening to music to remind you of their style

And accidently kissing the corners of their smile

You fear you’ll never meet this girl you dreamed

Watching her run down past the stream

I found love in 1945

I wasn’t even there

But I remember your eyes

Something about you reminds me of home

Now I’m stuck searching for this life I don’t even know

I remember your fingers on my skin

Nothing compares to life back then

Maybe I’m crazy or maybe I’m dumb

But I think you remember the time of us

We found love in 1945

We weren’t even there

But we stood side by side

Something about us makes me feel whole

Now we’re out looking for the other piece of our soul