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Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev handing over documents on the fates of Polish POWs during WW2 to Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski. First time the Soviet government admitted being responsible for the Katyn massacre (April 1990) (920×597)

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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 5 months ago
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Joe DiMaggio at Marilyn Monroe's funeral (1962)

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

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

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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 5 months ago
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Danish policemen, May 7, 1945

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

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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

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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 5 months 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

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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)

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