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Lieutenant Audie Murphy,the most condecorated man of US army history,1945
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Soviet Belarusian painting (1987) showing a Red Army solider liberating a concentration camp. Artist: Mikhail Savitsky.
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The last public execution by guillotine. June 17, 1939 at Versailles France.
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Dan Mitrione was a USAID "public safety advisor" for Uruguay in 1969/1970 who taught torture methods to the police to crack down on communist guerrillas. A Cuban agent who infiltrated the CIA said he had homeless people used as guinea pigs and personally tortured four of them to death .
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John F. Kennedy smoking a cigar. He’d buy 1,200 Cuban cigars the day before signing the US embargo on Cuba, banning all imports from Cuba, 1962.
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Two 12-year-old Viet Cong soldiers during the Vietnam War in 1968, in Dong Nai, Vietnam
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Hitler's 50th Birthday celebration in Berlin (April 1939) Colorized Newsreel
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Argentine dentist Ricardo Barreda during his trial on August of 1995 for the 1992 murders of his wife, two daughters, and mother in law in the city of La Plata. He committed the murders with a rifle after reportedly being insulted. He was released from prison in 2011.
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A father is greeted by his family after returning home from work, Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1949.
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A defeated German soldier sits in front of a burning Reichstag in Berlin in May, 1945. (720×900)
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Alexei Nikolaevich, (3rd from right) son of the Tsar Nicholas II, smacks another boy in the face for making a mistake during a cadet drill, 1917. 600x293)
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