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38 captured Poles being executed by the German army and Danzig police after defending a Polish post office in the former Free City of Gdańsk/Danzig (October 1939)(1000x659)

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Soviet partisan soon to be executed by a Finnish firing squad. Hanko 1941

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The Last gathering of Kings, 1910, at the funeral of Edward VII of England

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The first Polish President after WW2 - Bolesław Bierut with a fawn in a park, 1947

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Bosnian Serb commander playing around with his son during the Siege of Sarajevo (1992)

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Fascist Italian soldiers carry a man's severed head as a trophy. Ethiopia, August 6, 1936. .

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A Polish fighter is pulled from his hiding place in a sewer and taken prisoner by German soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising. He was probably executed. (1944)(1536x1151)

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Holocaust Survivor Josef Guttman Reunites with His Liberator and Adoptive Father, Master Sergeant William Best, December 24, 1948

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People traveling by horse-drawn cart in rural Poland, 1979. Photo by Alain Le Garsmeur.

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Red Army soldiers threaten a German sniper they just captured. Stalingrad, January 1943. .

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German Battleship Gneisenau in Drydock at Kiel showing damage to her bow after being torpedoed by British Submarine HMS Clyde, 1940

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Chris McCandless in front of his Fairbanks Bus 142, west of Healy, Alaska, 1992

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