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German General Heinz Guderian sharing a laugh with Soviet General Semyon Krivoshein (who was also Jewish) during the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk on September 22, 1939.
Posted 11 days ago
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For three months in 1973, the Dutch government banned cars on Sundays to curb oil consumption.
Posted 12 days ago
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Christer Pettersson arrives at his apartment outside Stockholm, Sweden, in 1989 after the appeals court freed him from his life sentence and conviction for the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme
Posted 13 days ago
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My 3x great-aunt, Blanche, with her younger twin brother and sister, Edwin and Edna in 1907, watched her parents be murdered after she couldn’t stop their killer. She was left guardian of her six siblings at eighteen years old.
Posted 13 days ago
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Life Magazine 1947, "The Most Beautiful Suicide", Evelyn McHale at the bottom of the Empire State Building.
Posted 13 days ago
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A swastika adorned door knocker to hit the carving of a jewish caricature, Nürnberg, 1938
Posted 13 days ago
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My 2x great uncle, Kennie. This photo was taken in 1933. Two years later, in 1935, he died of an ear infection at age ten.
Posted 14 days ago
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“So, how does life under capitalism treat you?” (Russian Communist Party billboard) // Russia // 2010
Posted 14 days ago
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