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  Former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny in Madrid, Spain, 1970. Skorzeny led the famous 1943 Gran Sasso raid in which Mussolini was rescued from captivity. After the war he escaped allied captivity & worked as an arms dealer, advising authoritarian leaders like Nasser & Peron, as well as Mossad. (1300×859)

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  A marine mourns the loss of a friend during the battle of Okinawa 1945

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  Wehrmacht troops smile and laugh after handing out cigarettes to a group of Ukrainian children. 1941.

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  Waffen-SS troops taking a loyalty oath at a Nazi rally in Munich, September 5th, 1938.

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  American soldiers storm Omaha beach, D-Day, June 6th 1944

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  Jewish-American soldiers conduct services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Germany on March 18, 1945.

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  Soviets open the tomb of Timur in Uzbekistan, the Mongol founder of the Timurid Empire, which apparently started a curse a week before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Timur was reburied a month before the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, which apparently ended the curse. (June 1941)(900×600)

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  French soldiers from the 157th Alpine Rifle Regiment bury their comrades in a shell crater in Bouzonville, France. September, 1914.

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  Actor John Wayne visiting US troops in the Philippines, 1958. The man standing in the doorway in the background of the photo is a young Lee Harvey Oswald. (605×600)

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  Exhausted German soldiers sprinkled with water to cool off after a long training march in France

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  German troops setting up beach defences run as an RAF reconnaissance plane flies overhead, Normandy, June 1944

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  The German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk: an official ceremony held by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on September 22, 1939, during the invasion of Poland

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  Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs the documents for the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, ending 5 years and 8 months of war in Europe. May 8th 1945

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  On this day in April 1945, Dachau was liberated. Horrified and outraged by the sight of massed corpses and starving survivors, American troops and freed prisoners promptly carried out reprisals against the remaining guards. Roughly 35 to 50 SS guards were summarily executed .

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  ‘This is not war for oil! This is war on terrorism!’, depicting George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin. Seppo Leinonen, 2003.

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  Soviet soldiers celebrating the victory over Germany at the Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945 (1799×1227)

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  ‘Russian troops root out another Chechen terrorist’, with a Russian soldier holding a baby by its leg infront of a city in ruins. 26/10/1999.

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  American cartoon from the Second World War (1941) showing Mussolini spending twenty years preparing for war only to complain in 1941: ‘We weren’t ready!’

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  The corpse of Mussolini, April 30, 1945

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  Heinz Barth, a former German SS officer, in East German court being charged with massacring an entire French village during WW2. Sentenced to life imprisonment, but was later awarded a ‘war victim’ pension and released in reunited Germany. (1983)(612×489)

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