Concrete Orange

Lydia Lunch Japanese article

Town Hall (1968-71) in Offenbach, Germany, by Maier, Graf & Speidel

Bowie ‘75

The Slits Palmolive and Ari Up at the Royal Variety Performance, 1977

Equipt for the trenches. A French sergeant and a dog, both wearing gas masks, on their way to the front line. 1914-1918. Library of Congress.

The execution of Japanese war criminal Hiroshi Matsumoto for his role in the massacre of over 200,000 Chinese citizens at Nanking, China. The Chinese army wore helmets the nazis sold to them in the 1930’s.

Four German soldiers with unfathomable levels of drip, 1917.

Running in gas masks, 1972. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

During the early stages of WW2 there was a real fear in Britain that Germany would use gas during their air raids. Here, British soldiers from the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) undergo anti-gas suit training - England 1940