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Werner von Clemm was a prominent and well-connected banker who smuggled diamonds stolen from Holocaust victims in the Netherlands and Belgium into the United States. Werner was one of countless bankers who helped smuggle Nazi loot from occupied territories, New York, 1942 .
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Finnish soldier with a Suomi KP/-31, Continuation War, circa roughly 1942.
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Australian soldiers from the 61st Battalion (Queensland Cameron Highlanders) advance along the Mosigetta River on Bougainville Island in March 1945 during the campaign against the Japanese (640×479)
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U.S. Soldiers from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, watch an Iraqi paramilitary unit's headquarters burn during an assault on As-Samawah's north side. Operation Iraqi Freedom 4 April 2003
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c. 1975: Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Jodie Foster on the set of "Taxi Driver," the breakout film for both actors.
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A young girl selling mirrors in the Lixeira area of the Angolan capital Luanda. Lixeira, meaning rubbish, is an area of Luanda built on a huge rubbish tip by internal refugees who tried to escape the Angolan Civil War (Luanda, Angola 2002)
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On the road to Baghdad, a US Marine Corps M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank lay destroyed after a firefight with Iraqi troops, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. 5 April 2003
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Romanov sisters, Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana Nikolaevna aboard the Imperial yacht ”Standart”, 1911.
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My 3x great grandfather, William Joseph demonstrating Nisenan tribe arrow techniques in California. Born in 1857 he was the last in our family to grow up knowing only indigenous life. As a teen he integrated and spent his life teaching the old ways as an ethnographic informant. c1930
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A soldier from Number 1 Company 1st Battalion, The Irish Guards, provides cover as Royal Engineer technicians prepare to cap a burning oil well in Basra, Iraq. 3 April 2003. Photo by WO2 Giles Penfound/MOD
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