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After being extradited to Italy from Argentina, Erich Priebke, a former German SS officer, being charged for involvement in massacring Italian civilians and POWs during WW2. He was sentenced to life imprisonment (1998)(920x734)

Posted 16 days ago
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Joe DiMaggio at Marilyn Monroe's funeral (1962)

Posted 16 days ago
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Identity card of Maria (Miezi) Bihari, 5 year old Romani girl, who was deported by Nazis in 1940/41

Posted 16 days ago
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A mass grave at Bergen-Belsen after the camp's liberation, April 1945

Posted 17 days ago
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Photo of Lavrentiy Beria holding Joseph Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana, with Stalin and Nestor Lakoba in the background. Beria was known for being a murderer and sexual predator while leading the NKVD. (1931)(1552x1080)

Posted 17 days ago
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Danish policemen, May 7, 1945

Posted 18 days ago
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German women forced to repave the streets of Prague after WW2 (1945)(591x470)

Posted 18 days ago
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People line up outside a butcher shop to buy horse meat (no World War II rationing coupons needed) in North Cheam, Surrey, England, on April 17, 1942

Posted 19 days ago
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Jozef Tiso, the former president of the Slovak Republic during WW2, in court arguing his defense that he doesn’t remember anything as president. He was later hanged for war crimes and state treason (1947)(1280x1280)

Posted 19 days ago
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Survivors in Dachau berate an SS guard captured by U.S. troops, while in the background American soldiers summarily execute other camp guards. April 29, 1945

Posted 19 days ago
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A few months before the annexation, Konrad Henlein and other Sudeten German Party members welcoming German Chancellor Adolf Hitler during his visit to the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, February 1938 (1000x1411)

Posted 20 days ago
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“I was the executioner of Poles at Bayers (factory) in 1939" German concentration camp commandant, Adolf Wilhelms, forced to hold a sign before his execution in Poland, April 1945 (800x800)

Posted 20 days ago