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Brigitte Helm cooling off on the set of Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'', 1927.
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Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Romanian fascist organization the Iron Guard (originally the legion of the Archangel Michael) inspecting his "legionnaires" in 1934. In 1938 he was assassinated by the Romanian government, with his corpse being dissolved in acid & buried in concrete. (1180x842)
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American soldier taking a nap on a bed belonging to German General Hermann Goering after elements of the US 3rd Army captured his lodge. Germany, May 3, 1945.
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Vietnamese Navy Petty Officer 2d Class Phan Thi Bich Duyen helps process American-donated food, soap, clothing, and tooth paste supplies for distribution to Vietnamese made homeless by war, c. 1966.
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Vietnam War at its peak, A US Air Force Lieutenant is held captive by a young North Vietnamese girl soldier. 1967.
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Portrait of the Italian philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926 where he remained until his death in 1937 (Italy 1920s)
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"Shy bandit, dangerous bandit"- self-portrait of Polish painter, photographer and playwright Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz "Witkacy" (1885-1939). He's portraying two different personas. Poland, 1931.
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Swedish soldiers (under UN flag) interrogating a Katangese mercenary sniper they caught hiding in a tree, Congo 1961.
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Kurt von Schuschnigg, the former fascist dictator of Austria, announces that he is retiring and returning to Austria. After World War II, Schuschnigg moved to the United States, where he worked as a professor of political science at St. Louis University for nearly 20 years, 1967 .
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Colonel George S. Patton III and his father visit the grave of his Grandfather and Uncle, both were Confederate Colonels who fell in the war (his Uncle, at Gettysburg), buried in the same grave. 1919
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