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A mother in Chicago offers her children for sale during extreme post-war poverty. USA, 1948.(750 × 600)
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German Women (Wehrmachthelferin) from the Wehrmacht, sitting next to crates of Panzerfaust launchers - with a long line of prisoners behind them - after their surrender to the Western Allies, c. May 1945.
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John Arnold is escorted into court for the sentencing phase of his murder trial. Arnold and his cousin, John Plath, both of whom were from York, Pennsylvania, were tried for torturing and lynching a young black mother in a small town in South Carolina, 1979 .
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Muammar Gaddafi with a guard from his “Amazonian” protection detail in Cairo, 1996
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Amon Göth, commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp, is convicted of war crimes and executed by hanging after WWII. (September 13th, 1946)
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