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The last photo of SS officer Fritz Dietrich, 50. He had a leading role in the massacres of thousands by Germans and Latvian collaborators in Liepāja. Dietrich, whose role in this was not known at the time, was hanged for the murders of 7 American POWs in Germany (Landsberg Prison, 1948) [903 x 622].
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José Capablanca (left) meets with US chess master Herman Steiner (right) for an informal game of chess in Los Angeles, 1933
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USS Essex (CV-9) repels kamikaze attacks near Okinawa, 11 April 1945
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A handwritten note from Mahatma Gandhi to my great-great-grandfather
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Japanese propaganda picture taken with chinese Children in the Nanjing region. Circa 1937-1938.
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1980's Behind the scenes of Ferris Bueller
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Former NOPD officer Antoinette Frank is escorted out of the restaurant where she and her boyfriend murdered three people during a robbery. The jury had toured it during her trial. Frank had returned to the scene in her patrol car, pretending to be first responder (Louisiana, 1995) [656 x 500].
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A young German fallschirmjäger captured by the US army, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, near Weywertz. Belgium, 15 January, 1945. [1066 X 1309] [colorized]
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Edward Prince of Wales, (future King Edward VII) (right) smoking with his brother-in-law, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark (future King Frederick VIII of Denmark) (left), in January 1869 when they were both in their 20s. [1080x1292] [Colourised]
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Supercentenarian Sarah Knauss, 118 years old, posing for a family photo, 1998.
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Some of the 300 to 500 people who tried to lynch a black teenager charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The lynching was foiled when Tennessee National Guard troops shot and stabbed dozens of the attackers, four of them fatally, after tear gas proved ineffective (Shelbyville, 1934) [2048 x 1542].
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1965 American Nazi Party Comic
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Frederick C. Branch, the first African American to be commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps, has his second lieutenant's bars pinned on by his wife. 10 November 1945 [2280 x 2933]
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August Sabbe (left) on the day of his attempted arrest and death on the bank of the Võhandu river, 28. September 1978 [502x305]
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Frank Sinatra hopping off of a helicopter, drink in hand. Photographed by Yul Brenner in 1964 [500x700]
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My Grandma and her friends 1940-50s
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Presidents Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Truman at Eleanor Roosevelt’s funeral. November 10, 1962. [650x510]
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Mathew McConaughey and his Date (1988)
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A photo taken of U.S. Army Private Werner Schmiedel, of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, at a stockade in Rome on December 10, 1944. Schmiedel was the leader of the "Lane Gang", a group of American and Canadian deserters who terrorized soldiers and civilians alike in war-torn Italy [530 x 594].
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A French soldier in 1918, equipped with a helmet with chainmail to protect the eyes from shell fragments, stones, and other dangerous elements [1148x1600]
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A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her mother’s blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American GI's. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 16 March 1968. [1170 x 1745]
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