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My grandpa (11) and his grandfather (70) posing in the garden in 1945

Posted 19 days ago
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20 year-old Dolly Parton in a recording studio in 1966

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Hitler says goodbye to Mussolini (they will never meet to again) Germany, 1944.

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Farmers hang nooses at a foreclosure auction to intimidate outside bidders. Michigan, 1936. (891x599)

Posted 20 days ago
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You're not a great superpower anymore (Chappate, 2007)

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My baddie of a grandmother from the late 40s or early 50s

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The Moment when Hitler declared war on the USA 1941, December 11th

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Remains of a prisoner in a crematorium furnace after liberation of Buchenwald, 1945. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White

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Young lady with lose hair posing close to the forest, 1900s.

Posted 21 days ago
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Two US Army MPs are slightly amused "interrogating" two German grade school children pressed into military service as the war was winding down, 1945. In general, any German "soldier" under 17 was briefly interrogated and then allowed to return home.

Posted 21 days ago
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My dad in 1981 with his first car as an American citizen

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"How many massacres does it take to be in the news around here?" (International New Tork Times, 2015)

Posted 21 days ago