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WW2 South African fighter pilot ace (with 35 nazi aircraft kills), Adolph 'Sailor' Malan, being carried by fellow veterans to one of the earliest major anti-apartheid protests. ~1952, South Africa.
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On Feb 8, 1943, 17yo partisan Lepa Radić was hanged by the Germans in Bosnia. Offered her life for names of other fighters, she replied: “I am not a traitor of my people. Those you're asking about will reveal themselves when they succeed in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man.”
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A French soldier fills the hands of American soldiers with candy, in Rouffach, France, after the two Allied armies met following the closing of the Colmar pocket. February 5, 1945.
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Serbian farmer continues his work as NATO bombs FR Yugoslavia during “Operation Allied Force” (1999)
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38 captured Poles being executed by the German army and Danzig police after defending a Polish post office in the former Free City of Gdańsk/Danzig (October 1939)(1000x659)
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Soviet partisan soon to be executed by a Finnish firing squad. Hanko 1941
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The Last gathering of Kings, 1910, at the funeral of Edward VII of England
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The first Polish President after WW2 - Bolesław Bierut with a fawn in a park, 1947
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Bosnian Serb commander playing around with his son during the Siege of Sarajevo (1992)
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Fascist Italian soldiers carry a man's severed head as a trophy. Ethiopia, August 6, 1936. .
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A Polish fighter is pulled from his hiding place in a sewer and taken prisoner by German soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising. He was probably executed. (1944)(1536x1151)
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Holocaust Survivor Josef Guttman Reunites with His Liberator and Adoptive Father, Master Sergeant William Best, December 24, 1948
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