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Ferenc Szálasi, leader of the Kingdom of Hungary (1944-1945) and Arrow Cross Party during WW2, is garroted for high treason and war crimes in Budapest. He died a slow death (March 12, 1946)(555x384)
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Chinese combat engineers conduct emergency repairs at night using wooden beams for the bombed-out railway bridge no. 185 across the Ch'ongch'on River, Korea, 1951. The bridge had reported been bombed 7000 times during the Korean War.
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French Soldiers Casually Executes Unarmed Algerian Shepherd Near His Tent 1945 (Full video in the comments) (512x358)
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Soviet soldiers sexually harass a German woman in Leipzig, Soviet occupied East Germany (August 1945)(1212x1600)
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Expelled Germans in West Germany protest Yalta and Potsdam border agreements/recognition, as well as the expulsions of Germans. In the background, a map of united Germany, with the Sudetenland, Oder-Neisse, and East Prussia territories included (August 1950)(1280x908)
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Ante Pavelić, head of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and the Ustaše during WW2, in his disguise used for a false passport to escape to Argentina. He was assisted by the Vatican and Roman Catholic Church to escape justice for his genocidal crimes during the NDH (1940s)(672x889)
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Construction of the Rome subway under the grounds of the Colosseum, 1939. Rome subway has just turned 70, being inaugurated in February 1955
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West German Chancellor Willy Brandt at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Poland, showing remorse for German atrocities against Jews during the uprising and war (1970)(1199x674)
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Shiro Ishii, director of Unit 731 at a reunion party of the unit's members after the war - 1946
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The first boundary marker after the Mexican-American War, protected by a fence from the anger of the local population. 1848
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Canadian Protester uses a hockey stick to shoot tear gas canisters back at riot police during the 2001 Quebec City Protests (2001-04-21)
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