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60 years of NATO (International Herald Tribune, 2009)
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The first ever confirmed photo of a Nazi Gas Van. Einsatzgruppen 7a, pictured in this photo, participated in the murders of approximately 134k Belarusian Jews. This vehicle was one of their tools. ~1941
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Larry Davis surrenders following a 17-day manhunt after he shot six NYPD officers raiding his sister's apartment. His defense team, led by William Kunstler, contended that the cops were corrupt and the raid was a pretense to murder Davis for knowing about their crimes, The Bronx, 1986 .
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A German student taking part in a racial education class, Nazi Germany, 1943 (1600x1594)
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Gourgen Yanikian, a 77-year-old Armenian genocide survivor who lost 26 family members, is arrested after killing two Turkish consuls, both whom were too young to have been involved. Yanikian's lawyers would portray him as a broken man who'd lost touch with reality, California, 1973 .
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'Protect yourself from this menace' — Anti-KKK poster issued by the Industrial Workers of the World, ca. 1921. 'The Ku-Klux-Klan is anti-Jew, anti-negro, anti-Catholic, anti-foreigner AND anti-labor. Organize industrially. Line up! Join the I.W.W.'
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Autochrome shot of a mother looking dow her baby while they sleep, 1910. Note: Not a memento mori photo, the baby is alive
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A US Air Force Douglas A-1E Skyraider drops a white phosphorus bomb on Viet Cong positions in South Vietnam in 1966.
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A Polish woman holding a photo of her killed husband at the opening of a Katyn Massacre Memorial in London, 1976 (459x640)
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From my glass negative collection, this early 1900s Michigan photo shows a toddler in a long white gown drinking from a long-tube feeding bottle, sometimes called a “murder bottle” because of the health risks these hard-to-clean bottles posed.
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