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allthingseurope:

Quedlinburg, Germany (by schreibtnix)

historical-nonfiction:

At the height of staggering inflation in the 1920’s, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.

itsjohnsen:

The German Army marches out. Potsdam, 1933.
Martin Munkácsi

itsjohnsen:

A 1942 photo of Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst - members of the student resistance group, “White Rose”. The group distributed pamphlets across Germany appealing to the public’s sense of moral duty, calling for resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, and demanding an end to the war.

Sophie would be caught and reported to the Gestapo on the 18th of February, 1943 at Ludwig Maximilians University. All three would then be sentenced 5 days later and beheaded.
George Witt

the-seed-of-europe:

Mervyn Peake sketching in Germany, 1945.

lostsplendor:

Rubble Women, Post-War Germany (via Retronaut)

hilaryshistoryarchive:

Volunteer of 15, From Brandenburg (LOC) (by The Library of Congress)