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An 11-year-old girl in Ghor Province, Afghanistan sits beside her fiancee, estimated to be in his 40s, at their engagement ceremony shortly before the couple’s marriage in 2005. Taken by Stephanie Sinclair winning the UNICEF Photo of the year 2007.
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A soldier stands in front of a sign erected by British Forces at the entrance to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany, May 1945 (800x778)
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Soviet soldiers that were captured during the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, held in a German transit camp and will soon be shipped to concentration camps in Germany or occupied Poland (August 1941)(1200x1135)
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Aerial photo of the German Reichstag building in ruins after the Battle of Berlin, May 1945 (784x526)
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Photo of an armed partisan fighter during the occupation of Yugoslavia, 1943 (940x1275)
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A young Cambodian government soldier flees into Phnom Penh, away from the advancing Khmer Rouge, April 1975.
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Stanisław Swianiewicz, a Polish soldier who was an eyewitness to the Katyn massacre, testifying, wearing a mask, to a US House committee. After the investigation, the committee determined that it was the Soviet NKVD responsible for the crime (1952)(968x544)
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Exiled Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia delivering a speech to the National Assembly of the League of Nations, condemning Italian aggression against Ethiopia, and criticizing members for lack of concern and hypocrisy. "It is us today, tomorrow it will be you” (1936)(1099x799)
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Cesare Battisti, an Italian of Austria-Hungary citizenship, after his execution for high treason and Italian irredentism during WW1. His executioner (above him) and other officials, pose and smile for a photo (July 1916)(600x954)
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The boy Slavoljub Slava Ković from Bogatić in Serbia with a carved-in five-pointed star on his forehead immediately before being shot in January 1942 by Germans.
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The wife of Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling, addressing members of the US House of Representatives, calling for maximum efforts in the Allied war against Japan, 1943 (800x523)
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A starved boy from a village in Ukraine during Povolzhye famine, 1921-22.
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