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Ans van Dijk stands trial in 1947. Pretending to be a member of the resistance, she offered to help Jews find hiding places and obtain false papers. She trapped at least 145 people, including her own brother and his family. It has also been suggested that she may have betrayed Anne Frank.
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Self-defense officers work to decontaminate the station immediately after the sarin gas attack on the subway.1995, Japan.
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After a bombing mission to Regensburg, Germany, the ball turret gunner of this 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress was killed when his plane was forced to the ground without landing gear. 1943.
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Sinéad O’Connor (RIP), performing on Saturday Night Live on Oct. 3, 1992, rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II in protest of the catholic church's history of child abuse
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A group of Japanese prisoners of war read a newspaper announcing the impending surrender of Japan, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, September of 1945 (1140x1105)
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French civilians and American troops converse over the body of a dead German soldier killed behind the church in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy during the Invasion of France by Allied forces. 6 June 1944.
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Joseph Stalin layed down, reading, with an unbuttoned coat, 03/07/1920.
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Ah-del-stohne (Straight Shooter), Navajo, 1903. Photo by Adam Clark Vroman.
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Fritz Loew, a 41-year-old German prisoner of war who was captured at Metz. Date unknown. Likely January, 1945.
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Pfc. Frank Vukasin, Great Falls, Mont., stops to load clip in his rifle while advancing through the snow-covered front-line sector at Houffalize, Belgium. Two dead Germans lay in the background. January 1945.
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