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  A photo taken of Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger shortly before he was sent to a concentration camp for child molestation. Dirlewanger was later freed due to his Nazi Party connections and placed in charge of a Waffen-SS unit composed mainly of convicted murderers and rapists (Germany, 1934) .

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  Heavy cruiser USS Astoria (CA-34) at Puget Sound Navy Yard, 25 September 1939

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  Suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem being escorted by South Vietnamese soldiers, just moments before his infamous execution, which was caught on camera. Saigon during the Tet Offensive, February 1968.

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  African-Americans protest against the Vietnam war during the Harlem Peace March, 1967

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  South African Navy Warrior-class inshore patrol vessel SAS King Shaka Zulu (1600×1148)

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  US WW1 Poster : True Blue. 1919.

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  Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov. Left: 1980 (declared KIA). Right: 2013 (found living as a healer in Herat). He had forgotten the Russian language entirely.

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  Adolf Hitler’s Walther PP (.32 ACP), a 50th-birthday gift from the Walther family in 1939, features gold inlays and ivory grips. It sold to a private collector in 1987 for $114,000 and is now estimated to be worth millions.

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  Auschwitz guards having a good time (1944) (1023×682)

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  Hitler says goodbye to Mussolini (they will never meet to again) Germany, 1944.

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  ‘New paradise for children, China and Japan will forever be close.’ Poster depicting a Chinese mother and child welcoming Japanese troops to occupied Beijing (c. 1937)

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  Roman Catholic priest Johann Nepomuk Kühberger, who as a four-year-old saved a boy his age who had fallen into the icy waters near the small town of Passau. According to locals, this boy was Adolf Hitler. Photo from the 1950s.

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  The Moment when Hitler declared war on the USA 1941, December 11th

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  «No More War» American (by Terry and Dennis Newell) Anti-War poster during the Vietnam war, 1970

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  Hitler’s drawings of potential Nazi logos, May 1920

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  (960 x 720) South African Navy submarine BBQ

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  M36 Jackson from the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion stood in front of the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg, April 1945

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  A Harvest of Death. Photograph of the dead taken in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863).

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  Luftwaffe aces meet Hitler after an awards ceremony at the Berghof, 1944

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  A French woman has her head shaved by civilians as a penalty for having consorted with German troops, 1944

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