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newyorkthegoldenage · 1 month

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Nine-year-old Helen Stor, clad in Bohemian native dress, holds coin boxes against Hitler that will circulate on March 25, 1939, when a "Stop Hitler" parade was planned. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise was honorary grand marshal for the parade, which was sponsored by the American Council to Combat Nazi Invasion. They said they expected 250,000 to attend. Unfortunately, it took more than a parade to stop Hitler.

Photo: Associated Press via the Berkshire Eagle

#vintage New York #1930s #anti-Hitler #March 25 #25 March #parade #coin box #American Council to Combat Nazi Invasion #pre-WWII #Nazis #anti-Nazi #vintage NYC

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septembergold · 2 years

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#Berlin #cafes #culture #germany #20th century #historic #pre-WWII

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carbone14 · 3 months

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Pilotes soviétiques devant un chasseur Polikarpov I-16 – 1930s-1940s

#WWII #avant-guerre #pre-war #armée de l'air soviétique #soviet air force #aviation militaire #military aviation #chasseur #avion de chasse #fighter #polikarpov I-16 #I-16 #polikarpov #1930's #1940's

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lotus-pear · 6 months

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HI UHM HELLO… [taps mic] is this thing on….?? ………ok! [leans in] writer mutuals! i’m in dire need of assistance rn. how do you write a story. i have to write a plot for english and it’s due next thursday and i’m not sure where to start. are there any rules i should be following. plot points that are crucial outside of the basic exposition/rising action/climax/falling action/resolution??? how to format your individual chapters?? how to develop the story and where to get inspo??? how do some of you get inspo??? PLS HELP ME

#THINK OF IT LIKE I NEED TO WRITE A RLY GOOD FANFIC FOR MY LIT TEACHER #NOW BASED ON THAT.. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE A PERSON STARTING A FIC FOR THE FIRST TIME #for reference it needs to be connected to pre wwii and the actual war itself so like the 1935-1945 time period #bro i’m so bad at writing fiction forget HISTORICAL fiction #this is going to be sm fun if i get this right it it could explode in my face and i’ll never be allowed in the classroom again if i fail #drop thoughts below what should the plotline be i will take anything #we can craft a story together :]

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comicgoblinwrites · 1 year

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Hans Vogel is Dead by Sierra Barnes

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It's been a joy to work on this comic with Sierra to bring this edition of Hans Vogel, and I'm excited to see where it goes next! So go and get your copy—Pre-Order or talk to your local comic shop! Support your local and/or indie comic creators!

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ciaheyhimm · 5 months

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Luca Basile as Italo Balbo in "Oltre la Bufera" (2019)

#ww2 #wwii #historical #reichblr #ww2 italy #italo balbo #balbo #fascist italy #wwii italy #oltrelabufera #oltre la bufera #movies #pre-wwii movies

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winteratdusk · 11 months

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Totally forgot to share this when I first posted, but chapter 2 of my new fic is now up! Some Steve/Bucky hurt/comfort, as always.

It was November of 1941, the air was bright and clear and cold, and Bucky was starting to feel like he was living at the end of the world. Or, with the world at war, responsibility on his shoulders, and the draft looming closer by the day, Bucky's just trying his best to stay afloat. Drinking seems to help, until it doesn’t.

Main, overarching warning for depictions of unhealthy alcohol use as a coping mechanism. More specific warnings are in the tags and chapter notes, so please be sure to check those as well! Chapter 2 snippet below the cut:

Bucky sat slouched over the bar, staring into the depths of his drink.

It was a dive bar close to the docks, one Bucky always glanced over his shoulder before entering, afraid Jack or someone else from work might be passing by and see him go in. Since he and Steve had finally gotten over themselves, taking the plunge into the relationship that, to Bucky, had always felt halfway inevitable, they went out dancing a lot less. It was both exhausting and unfair, inviting out girls just to keep up appearances. They now spent more time out at bars like this instead – places where Bucky could run his hand up Steve’s thigh or link their hands together under the table and know that nobody would bat an eye.

There had been a time when Bucky had loved it, the openness they found in these places when everywhere else they had to be so careful. He was enjoying it far less now that he had to spend his evening listening to Steve animatedly talking politics to the shiny-haired boy sitting next to them at the bar, leaving Bucky to either try and fail to keep up or drink in silence.

“It’s bullying, is what it is,” Steve ranted, that familiar bit of Irish starting to creep into his voice. “Hitler thinks he can push everyone in Europe around, just like he’s already been doing to his own people!”

The boy beside him was nodding intensely, dark eyes fixed on Steve’s face. Bucky knocked back the rest of his drink and tried to subtly flag down the bartender.

“Exactly,” the boy agreed. “It’s not about glory or adventure or anything, like other guys keep saying. It’s about justice. We’ve finally got the chance to do something good. You’re joining up, right?”

Bucky saw Steve deflate for a moment before quickly squaring his shoulders again. “Trying. Wouldn’t take me the first time around, but I’m gonna prove them wrong.”

“And you?”

The boy beside Steve addressed Bucky just as the bartender handed him his next drink. Bucky winced, hoping that neither Steve nor his new friend had caught on to the fact that most of the empty glasses in front of them were Bucky’s already, or that somewhere along the line he’d switched to ordering doubles.

He wasn’t trying to get drunk, not really — it had just felt so good to loosen up a little, and he could hardly fault himself for not wanting that feeling to stop.

“Buck?” Steve asked, expectant.

“I, uh… yeah,” Bucky said. “Yeah, I think I will. Just gotta make sure my folks are taken care of first. And I mean, I already signed up for the selective service last summer when they told us we all had to, so…”

Bucky knew it wasn’t the righteous answer Steve’s friend was looking for. He only hoped he was imagining the matching frown echoed on Steve’s face.

Bucky was saved from having to sit through any more of the conversation when someone sat down at the old, out-of-tune piano in the corner of the bar. As the first off-key notes of a drinking song permeated the room, the atmosphere shifted, faraway problems disappearing in favor of current celebration.

Steve’s new friend had turned around, talking to another man on the other end of the bar, and Steve’s eyes were on Bucky again. They were glassy and framed with long eyelashes. Their deep blue looked dark in the low light, and Bucky’s stomach swooped with a sensation like falling as he felt himself leaning towards them, tunneling into them.

Steve’s lips parted, saying something that could hardly be heard over the raucous music. They were bright pink, glistening with the last sip of his drink, and Bucky wanted so badly to kiss them, to claim those lips for himself. He forced himself to hold back, pressing a hand flat to the sticky surface of the bar beside his drink to keep himself from touching Steve anywhere he could reach.

#stucky #established steve/bucky #pre-war stucky #steve rogers #bucky barnes #wwii #1940s #hurt/comfort #angst and hurt/comfort #fic #writing #ao3 #alcohol use tw #addiction themes tw #mind the tags

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fandom-space-princess · 24 days

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spent the morning tentatively constructing an essay in my head about the differences between Golden Age and New Wave science fiction and their conflicting approaches to the concepts of utopia and cultural perfection. and then realized that it's yet another thing I'm happier daydreaming about than actually writing. alas.

#old sci fi is a lifelong special interest for me and i am full of feelings about it #anyway the tldr of that essay would have been that the cold war transformed the broader cultural ideal in the west #of what a perfect future should look like and how it should serve the people living in it #there's this sense in a lot of the really popular scifi pre-WWI that the future is perfect bc as a species we've perfected ourselves #(*pre-WWII. 2. typo)#but coming into the 60s you notice that change dramatically #there's this odd background mixture of hope and dread. sort of a feeling that the species might be one foot in the grave already #but also a refusal to accept that. the way people dreamed about how they should live started to shift. you can watch it happen!#there's this feeling that our stewardship of the future must be possible-inevitable even-as imperfect people. imperfect societies.#that we can't achieve utopia but we can find a way to keep going anyway #i don't know. i'm emotional about it. it's a time capsule for an era of radically shifting desires on an international scale #you read stories from that time and you can feel people not wanting to give up. you can feel how badly they wanted tomorrow to include them #i think it's beautiful #fsp speaks

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sciencefantasy93 · 1 month

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As The Night Shatters update for whoever is reading: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54479680/chapters/138405439

#lockwood and co #save lockwood and co #lockwood & co #lucy carlyle #anthony lockwood #lockwood netflix #locklyle #renew lockwood and co #l&co #holocaust #pre wwii

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stone-cold-groove · 9 months

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March at the Brandenburg Gate. Berlin, Germany - 1936.

#vintage photography #berlin #germany #the 30 #pre-war germany #brandenburg gate #nazi germany #wwii #ww2 germany

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official-lauchzwiebel · 3 months

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When you're researching for a story and your findings end up complimenting it perfectly

#btw does anybody here know stuff about czech funeral traditions pre WWII or where i could find helpful resources.#i'll look up stuff at the local library tomorrow we'll see

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carbone14 · 9 days

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Le croiseur lourd USS Chicago (CA-29) - Mare Island Naval Shipyard – Vallejo – Californie – Avril 1931

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nychthemeron-rants · 4 months

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I think we should start making composition dolls again and just... not cover them in lead paint this time. I mean, yeah, they're heavy compared to plastic baby dolls, but not so much so that a child couldn't still carry and play with it. They last generations and are sturdy as hell (I collect them). Plus they're made out of composition and cloth, not plastic, so they're almost certainly more sustainable than plastic baby dolls and we could use sustainable toys that aren't sad beige.

#besides see again the whole 'they last generations' thing #two of mine are dated to pre-WWII and the only issues are paint chipping #so you know #just give them more durable non-lead paint this time #plus I collect dolls in questionable condition #plenty are still in great condition #composition dolls #antique toys #antique dolls #vintage toys #vintage dolls

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moviesiveseenandwanttoremember · 5 months

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Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises” July 20, 2013.

#Hayao Miyazaki #The Wind Rises #2013 #2010s #Studio Ghibli #Animated #Pre WWII #WWII #World War II #Drama #Romantic Drama #Stills

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sayitwithsarcophilus · 10 months

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The thing about making generalizations about the aesthetic and cultural sensibilities of people who lived 100-150 years ago is that people of the post-Industrial Revolution, pre-digital age left behind a crapton of written ephemera, so it's not hard to find primary sources even if you don't have the full resources of an academic historian.

If I want to know what kinds of housewares middle-class Edwardian Americans were buying and how fancy they got, I can consult my reprinted 1906 Sears catalog, and armed with the magic of primary sources I can safely say that minimalism was not the dominant American middle-class aesthetic in the early 1900s.

#how the heck did that person come to this conclusion anyway?#did they assume the model T looked like that for aesthetic reasons #and not to facilitate mass production?#did they see one excerpt of an edwardian decorator talking about the virtues of simplicity and not realize #that they meant “simple compared to the late Victorians?”#was their only exposure to pre-boomer material culture #wwii utility furniture?

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dirjoh-blog · 6 months

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85th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

On the morning of 7 November, a young Jewish man, Herschel Grynszpan, wrote a farewell postcard to his parents and put it in his pocket. Grynszpan went to a gun shop in the Rue du Faubourg St Martin, where he bought a 6.35mm revolver and a box of 25 bullets for 235 francs. Then went to the German embassy IN pARIS and asked to see an embassy official. After he was taken to the office of Nazi…

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#History #Kristallnacht #Pre WWII #World War 2

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