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My grandpa and grandma on their wedding day August 1940
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Pro-segregation protester at the University with a prop, the same day the first 2 African american students were admited, 20 of January 1961
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A boy watches television for the first time through a shop window, 1948
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The mother offered her children for sale in Chicago in 1948 due to extreme poverty hiding her face in shame
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"The If-Hitler-Loses-We're-Sunk Corporation"—American cartoon from the Second World War, June 1941
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I just posted my grandma at 17, this is her and my grandpa right after they got married. Absolutely stunning, both of them.
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A Wehrmacht officer of the 707th Division hangs two Belorussian teenagers in Nazi-Occupied Minsk, photographed during Operation Barbarossa. October 26, 1941.
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Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust - stands in the yard of Ayalon Prison - in Ramla, Israel, c. April 1961.
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My mom (age 15) stretching the phone cord for some privacy. St. Louis Park, MN, circa 1959.
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On this day in 1864, the first Union POWs arrived at Andersonville- a newly constructed stockade in Georgia that would soon become one of the most infamous prisons in US history. Almost 13,000 POWs died here from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure.
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The 'Hasanlu lovers' died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972 in iran They died in what seems to be an embrace or kiss and remained that way for 2800 years
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