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"No German customers wanted here until Hitler returns Czechoslovakia!" - a poster placed in the window of a Somerville restaurant by its Czech owner. USA, March 18, 1939.

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Grigory Berman finds the bodies of his wife and children, killed by Nazis from Einsatzgruppe D. Crimea, January 1942.

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Love is love

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No one wants to remember the horrors of war. Poland, Warsaw, 1946.

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A traffic jam at the Brandenburg Gate between East and West Berlin on the first Saturday after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 11, 1989.

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2 men look with bright smiles at a sleeping baby, New York, 1940.

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"I'm going to finish you off soon". Pornographic Japanese propaganda poster from Russo - Japanese war, 1904/1905. NSFW!

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U.S. Marines in Hue during the Tet Offensive, 1968

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I’m sorry I’m not a thirst trap, but this sub needs more actual old school cool. And there’s nothing cooler than my tracksuit. I think about 1983 or so.

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A Palestinian child flashes peace signs at an Israeli-manned bulldozer demolishing a house in Jenin's Old City during an operation by the Israeli army in the northern West Bank town on 25 October 2002.

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My mother (left) and her best friend, Dolores (right) c. 1953

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American photographer and model Elizabeth Miller in Hitler's bathtub, 1945.

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