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A US Army medic administering first aid to a GI in the woods near Tittingen, Germany during the Battle of the Ardennes, 1944.

Posted 9 hours ago
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1946: Margret Zimmermann balancing on a tightrope over the ruins of Cologne in which was then in the British occupation zone in Germany

Posted 19 hours ago
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Sergeant Dawson of the Grenadier Guards, wounded in the Crimean War (1856)

Posted a day ago
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Croatian husband giving his wife homemade pistol for selfdefence during Serbian assault on their village in Slavonia in 1991.

Posted 2 days ago
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Mugshot of a girl who shows signs of being tortured. One of the 20,000 inmates of S21. Tagged, photographed and documented at the prison, they were never seen again, likely forced to sign false confessions and then executed by the Khmer Rouge regime. Cambodia, 1976-1979 Exact date unknown

Posted 2 days ago
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Australian soldiers flying Nazi flag in Afghan mountains, August 2007

Posted 3 days ago
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A Turkish soldier fighting in Korea, together with a Korean monk. 1950

Posted 3 days ago
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Half-starved American POWs being liberated and given medical attention at Berga Concentration Camp near the village of Schlieben, Germany, 1945

Posted 3 days ago
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Young ladies smiling for the camera on their way to class. Iran, 1970s .

Posted 4 days ago
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The three men who the Soviet government considered to be responsible for the Chernobyl Disaster, at their trial. circa July 1987.

Posted 4 days ago
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LBJ signing the Social Security Amendments (aka Medicare). On the right is former President Truman, who was the very first person enrolled in the health insurance program. July 1965

Posted 5 days ago