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Norwegian Nazi collaborator with the Nasjonal Samling Henrik Rogstad, who shot himself upon learning of the surrender of Germany. 10 Mai 1945
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Joseph Mikulec, Croatian globetrotter who traveled 100K miles across 6 continents on foot, collected 50,000 autographs of famous people (1908-22), including 6 US Presidents and many world leaders. Link to his 60-pound 'Largest Autograph Album & Travel Log Ever Assembled' in comments.
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Holocaust denier and disgraced historian David Irving being deported from Canada, November 1992, he was known at the time because he had found Goebbels Diaries a few months earlier.
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Skull of an presumed Soviet soldier used as an decoration. Taken in Imatra Finland 1941. Photo from SA-kuvat {564x705}
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View from above on the Crown of Saint Stephen. After WWII, the crown was given to the U.S. Army for safekeeping from the Soviet Army. It was held at Fort Knox until it was returned to the Hungarian people in 1978. Photo 8/3/1945.
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Marilyn Monroe visiting injured troops in Japan. This soldier had a broken back but it didn't stop Marilyn. (1954)
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Vincenzo Peruggia in the courtroom. On 21 August 1911, Peruggia stolen the Mona Lisa. He walked into the Louvre and, noticing it had no guards or visitors, took the painting off its pegs, removed it from the frame, and walked out of the museum with it under his arm (Florence, Italy 1914)
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Necmettin Erbakan, then Sharia Prime Minister of Turkiye, signs the decisions taken after negotiations with the secularist and Ataturkist army. February 28, 1997
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Unarmed citizens jeer invading Soviet military forces, shouting, 'Fascists!' and 'Russians go home!'. On 20-21 August 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded by 250,000 Warsaw Pact troops. The invasion stopped Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring liberalization reforms (Prague, Czechoslovakia 1968)
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