During the siege of Leningrad in 1943, Belle the hippo survived the war thanks to her caretaker, Yevdokia Dashina. - History Education Network

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Soviet soldier wipes his boots with Nazi flag, Breslau, 1945

According to recent reporting Secretary Phelan during a private dinner said the new Frigate would be a modified National Security Cutter. Here’s what that might look like (2048×1536).

Tiger II with tactical number 101, commanded by Oberscharführer Karl-Heinz Türk of schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 503, was immobilised at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin and later abandoned by its crew. Berlin, 1945

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Tony Kiritsis holding a shotgun to the head of his mortgage broker, Richard Hall. Kiritsis had fallen behind on mortgage payments. When Hall refused to grant him an extension, Kirtsis kidnapped him and held him hostage for 63 hours (Indiana, 1977) .

15-year-old Léon Merdjian, a member of the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism during the Battle of Moscow, 1941.

During the siege of Leningrad in 1943, Belle the hippo survived the war thanks to her caretaker, Yevdokia Dashina.

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