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Bozo the Clown having a smoke with the mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne c 1980.
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Franceska Mann (1917-1943) was a courageous Jewish dancer. Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the Jewish dancer Franceska Mann began to perform a striptease. When the guards asked her to remove her clothes, she took advantage of one of their distractions to steal his weapon and shoot him dead.
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The American flying ace Lt Col Louis Edward Curdes, who shot down planes from all three Axis powers as well as one American. Philippines, 1945
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German General Heinz Guderian sharing a laugh with Soviet General Semyon Krivoshein (who was also Jewish) during the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk on September 22, 1939.
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For three months in 1973, the Dutch government banned cars on Sundays to curb oil consumption.
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