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German General Heinz Guderian sharing a laugh with Soviet General Semyon Krivoshein (who was also Jewish) during the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk on September 22, 1939.

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Horatio Robley, seated with his collection of severed heads (1895)

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Kids opening Christmas gifts in the 80s

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For three months in 1973, the Dutch government banned cars on Sundays to curb oil consumption.

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My dad in 1968 and same orange trees 57 years later

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"Respect each other!" - Soviet poster (1989)

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Christer Pettersson arrives at his apartment outside Stockholm, Sweden, in 1989 after the appeals court freed him from his life sentence and conviction for the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme

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My 3x great-aunt, Blanche, with her younger twin brother and sister, Edwin and Edna in 1907, watched her parents be murdered after she couldn’t stop their killer. She was left guardian of her six siblings at eighteen years old.

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Life Magazine 1947, "The Most Beautiful Suicide", Evelyn McHale at the bottom of the Empire State Building.

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A swastika adorned door knocker to hit the carving of a jewish caricature, Nürnberg, 1938

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My 2x great uncle, Kennie. This photo was taken in 1933. Two years later, in 1935, he died of an ear infection at age ten.

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“So, how does life under capitalism treat you?” (Russian Communist Party billboard) // Russia // 2010

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