The dead bodies of Leipzig Deputy Mayor Ernst Lisso, his wife Renate & their daughter Regina after committing suicide by cyanide in his office to avoid capture by US troops. April 18, 1945 (2813x1875) - History Education Network

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The United States Navy’s Pacific Reserve Fleet in San Diego became one of the largest “Mothball Fleets” after World War II.

A section of the ossuary at Douaumont, France, containing the unidentified remains of over 130,000 soldiers killed at the battle of Verdun, photographed in 1964. The remains include soldiers from both sides of the conflict (1920×1240)

File clerks working at their electric elevator desks in Prague, former Czechoslovakia, 1937.

The gold-encrusted hilt of the Marengo Sword carried by Napoléon Bonaparte, manufactured in Paris c. 1798-1800.

Swiss border guards with the Liechtenstein auxiliary police, monitoring the Liechtenstein-Austrian and German border, on May 3rd, 1945.

The dead bodies of Leipzig Deputy Mayor Ernst Lisso, his wife Renate & their daughter Regina after committing suicide by cyanide in his office to avoid capture by US troops. April 18, 1945 (2813×1875)

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