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Beginning in 1932, Oskar Speck kayaked 50,000km over seven years from Germany to Australia. Just three weeks before his arrival in Australia, Germany invaded Poland. Upon his arrival, he was congratulated, then arrested by Australian police and spent the duration of the war in a POW camp

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Little Girl Loves Her New Puppy 1950

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Dalton Prejean with his son at Angola Prison shortly before his execution for killing a state trooper when he was 17. In 2001, Dalton Prejean Jr. killed his 14-month-old stepson. He is serving a 60-year sentence at the same prison where his father was executed, Louisiana, 1990 .

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Anne Frank's Father Otto, Revisiting The Attic Where They Hid From The Nazis. He Was The Only Surviving Family Member (1960).

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My grandma (1964)

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“Radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive” US billboard by the Tea Party movement (2010)

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Crowd of angry parents hurl insults at 6 year-old Ruby Bridges as she enters a traditionally all-white school, the first black child to do so in the United States South, 1960.

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A German teenager of the Hitler Youth distributes grenades to civilian troops of the Volkssturm. Some men carry anti-tank weapons, others outdated rifles. This was part of the Third Reich’s final stand of defense against the approaching Soviet Army. (1945)(652x693)

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Dancing with my dad at my uncle’s wedding 40 years ago

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A picture taken by my German grandfather during WW1 - Russians on the Eastern Front waving towards the ‘enemy’ on the other side - 1917 (2572 x 2157)

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“I hope the Americans get here first” American cartoon showing a German man hoping the US military reaches Berlin before the Soviet military (1944)

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"Fallujah 2004: Locals take revenge on American Blackwater contractors accused of killing civilians"

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