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The severed head of a Chinese collaborator in a cage, hanged from a tree during the Japanese invasion of China, 1937 (1200x1561)
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Chinese-American waitress Ruth Lee with a flag of China to make clear she is chinese and no Japanese and avoid harrasment, December 1941
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A Polish resistance fighter from the Home Army during the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising, August 1944 (1001x1500)
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Loving the female joy in this photo of my great x3 aunt’s (behind the camera) friends after graduating from nursing school in the late 1890s.
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'Hitler came the closest' — American illustration from the Second World War (1943)
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Anne Frank’s father Otto, revisiting the attic where they hid from the Nazis. He was the only surviving family member. (1960)
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One of the only known photos ever taken of British Queen Victoria smiling, 1897. Despite her reputation as a serious, humorless monarch (epitomized by the apocryphal quote "We are not amused") those close to her considered the Queen to have quite a sense of humor. (1727x1348)
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Imagine trying to find your friend on this crowded college campus in 1964.
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A photo of teenage German soldier Armin Kühne. He was only 12 years old when he left home in 1939. After the war, Kühne stood trial for being part of a mob of fanatical German POWs who'd lynched a fellow prisoner for allegedly betraying the Nazi cause at a camp in Sheffield, England .
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Blanche Barrow,a member of Bonnie and Clyde’s gang the moment she was captured, 1933
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