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A mother with her 8 sons, who all served in World War 2. They all came back, safe and sound.(680x603)

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Croatian soldiers of 111th brigade during assault on Serbian bunkers in january of 1993. in operation Maslenica

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US Combat Correspondent with a pair of Colt SAA Artillery Model revolvers he picked up from the rubble during the Battle of Manila - February 1945.

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A deported Ingush family, mourning next to the body of their deceased daughter, in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1944 (940x630)

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Emil Hácha (left), the symbolic President of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, along with other officials, giving the Nazi salute at the funeral of Reinhard Heydrich, June 1942 (640x543)

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"Civillians suffocated in the cellar of their home during a bombing by the Soviet trained Afghan Air Force", Afghanistan, 1988. Photo made by Radosław Sikorski, today polish Foreign Affair Minister during his visit in this country as a war reporter.

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Postmortem photograph of Deputy Sherriff Bird Daugherty, center, and his sons, Willie and Fisher in their caskets. The men were ambushed and murdered by Daniel Britton Daugherty, a relative whose son they had recently arrested for “moonshining” during Prohibition. Morgan Co, Tenn, 1922.

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The Japanese military delegation (one IJA officer and one IJN officer) attending the Red Square victory parade, June 24, 1945. The USSR was not at war with Japan, and Japan sent an awkward delegation to attend the ceremony commemorating the defeat of their German ally.

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“No Germans” a Czech man and his restaurant in Massachusetts after Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia, March 1939 (1000x767)

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Class photo of Czech children from the 2nd grade in Lidice, taken on June 2, 1942. A week before the start of the destruction and massacre of the village by German occupiers. Only 17 children from Lidice survived (1000x620)

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Russian president Boris Yeltsin kisses the ribbon of wreath he laid at a Katyn monument in Warsaw, dedicated to Polish officers massacred by Soviet authorities during WW2 (August 1993)(543x807)

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The funeral for OUN-B leader Stepan Bandera in West Germany, who was assassinated by the KGB using cyanide gas (October 1959) (2048x1353)

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