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My wife's grandfather was a member of the Nationalist Sozialist party during WW2. Here are his photos from the time of the Anschluss and the Nuremburg rally of 1938.
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Sergeant Thomas Dawson with his daughter, after being wounded at the Battle of Inkerman (1855, Crimean War) .
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22 college students cram into a telephone booth, 1959. How young people had fun with their phones before the internet.
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28-year-old Marcy Borders, known as the "dust lady, worked at the Bank of America in the World Trade Center and survived its collapse, September 11 2001. Borders passed away from cancer in August 24, 2015. Photographed by Stan Honda
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Carlos Luis Collado, Costa Rican physician, tortured and murdered by the Nazis on October 10, 1944, just five months earlier he graduated as a doctor in the University of Bologna. He gave his life for the allies, remembered by Costa Rica and Italy. .
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Deconstruction of the Italian Tower, built as decoration for an Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, c. 1916.
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A dead Italian soldier holding a photo of his child during the North Africa campaign, 1940s
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A group of Native American schoolchildren are photographed at the Panguitch Boarding School. The school was one of many Native American boarding schools operating in both Canada and the United States, with the goal of assimilating Native Americans, Utah, 1900s .
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A British paratrooper and captured Argentine POW's celebrating the end of the Falklands War, 1982
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Colombian defender Andres Escobar on the ground after scoring an own goal against the USA at the 1994 World Cup. This goal eliminated Colombia from the World Cup. Escobar was killed ten days later in his hometown of Medellín (594 x 346)
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