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Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.
Posted 15 days ago
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The American flying ace Lt Col Louis Edward Curdes, who shot down planes from all three Axis powers as well as one American. Philippines, 1945
Posted 16 days ago
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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 16 days ago
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For three months in 1973, the Dutch government banned cars on Sundays to curb oil consumption.
Posted 17 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 17 days ago
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