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The first 20 detainees during in-processing at Camp X-Ray, Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. January 11, 2002
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Adolf Hitler rehearsing his oratory in a mirror in 1925. Captured by his photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. Notably, Hoffmann's photographs played a crucial role in Hitler's propaganda campaign, and Hitler would become the Reichskanzler in 1933 & Führer in 1934.
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Tashi Namgyal, the Chogyal (Dharma King) of Sikkim who favored the British, sits at the table with the ornithologist, spy and SS-Sturmbannführer Ernst Schäfer during the German expeditions to Tibet. June 1938 in Gangtok
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The first of the detainees aboard a C-141 aircraft after arrival at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 11 January 2002
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American naval aviator Lt. Everett Alvarez, who was shot down over North Vietnam during a bombing raid in 1964, with a North Vietnamese prison guard while in captivity - 1967
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Rudolf von Ribbentrop in London in 1936, shortly after his father, Joachim, was appointed German ambassador to Great Britain. He attended Westminster School there, where one classmate stated that he dressed "like the rest of us, but with a Nazi party youth badge."
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Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt meeting with US president Ronald Reagan in late 1982. Montt, considered the most brutal perpetrator of the 36 year "Guatemalan genocide," had been engaged in a brutal terror campaign against indigenous Mayans for months at the time of the meeting. (1785x1285)
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The bodies of Dea agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena & his pilot, kidnapped & tortured to death by the Guadalajara cartel for 30 hours, are found on March 5, 1985. The event would change US-Mexican relations and the drug war forever, & cause speculation of Mexican government & CIA involvement (1024x582)
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Jack Nicholson, Vladimir Putin, Peta Wilson (Australian actress) and Nikita Mikhalkov (Russian filmmaker) at a meeting with participants and guests of the XXIII Moscow International Film Festival, 2001 .
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Indonesian President Sukarno (right) formally handing power over to General Suharto (left) 1966. Suharto had killed hundreds of thousands of dissidents & effectively worked to overthrow him behind the scenes for months. He went on to rule for 32 years & acquired a $15-35 billion fortune (1024x682)
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