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Roman Polanski kneeling at his door where 'Pig' is written in his wife's blood (Sharon Tate) after the Manson family murders, 1969.
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The futility of the Great War. A German soldier in a WW1 commonwealth cemetery on the Somme, June 1940
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Nazi soldiers paying tribute to France's unknown soldier. 28 june, 1940.
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One of the only photos ever taken of "the torturer in chief" Florentino Ventura, among the most powerful figures in Mexican police history, 1980s. Described as "the most brutal man I've ever met" by one DEA agent, he arrested & tortured several cartel drug lords & died by "suicide" in 1988 (167x233)
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British children taking shelter in a trench while watching an aerial battle overhead during the Battle of Britain on September 3, 1940. (Colorized, link to original black and white in comments)
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Nationalist troops aboard the SS Castillo de Olite. In March 1939, they prepared to dock in a city they thought was in their control. The men were too busy celebrating their upcoming victory to heed Republican warning shots. Eventually, a shots sank the ship, killing 1,476 Nationalists .
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Ayatollah Khomeini is escorted off of his Air France flight during the Islamic Revolution, returning to Iran after living in the West while in exile. When asked by journalists about what he felt after finally returning to his homeland after so long, he responded, "Nothing." Iran, 1979
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