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Soviet soldiers sexually harass a German woman in Leipzig, Soviet occupied East Germany (August 1945)(1212x1600)

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Expelled Germans in West Germany protest Yalta and Potsdam border agreements/recognition, as well as the expulsions of Germans. In the background, a map of united Germany, with the Sudetenland, Oder-Neisse, and East Prussia territories included (August 1950)(1280x908)

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Ante Pavelić, head of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and the Ustaše during WW2, in his disguise used for a false passport to escape to Argentina. He was assisted by the Vatican and Roman Catholic Church to escape justice for his genocidal crimes during the NDH (1940s)(672x889)

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Construction of the Rome subway under the grounds of the Colosseum, 1939. Rome subway has just turned 70, being inaugurated in February 1955

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West German Chancellor Willy Brandt at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Poland, showing remorse for German atrocities against Jews during the uprising and war (1970)(1199x674)

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Shiro Ishii, director of Unit 731 at a reunion party of the unit's members after the war - 1946

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Execution by submachine gun in Thailand (1972-06-19)

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The first boundary marker after the Mexican-American War, protected by a fence from the anger of the local population. 1848

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Canadian Protester uses a hockey stick to shoot tear gas canisters back at riot police during the 2001 Quebec City Protests (2001-04-21)

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Physicist Richard P. Feynman, captured at Los Alamos—the secret site that built the atomic bomb—during World War II (1944)

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Posthumous photo of Roman Shukhevych, a commander of the UPA. A bullet hole is visible on his temple, he shot himself to avoid being captured by Soviet secret police. Known for the ethnic cleanings of Poles from Galicia during WW2 (1950)(400x297)

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Adolf Hitler giving a speech to the German parliament to convince them to pass the Enabling Act which would give him dictatorial powers, 1933

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