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Hans-Georg Henke – 16 year old German soldier crying after being captured by the Allies, 1945 Hans Georg Henke’s story is a poignant illustration of the…
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Vasily Blokhin, Joseph Stalin’s head executioner. Having personally killed tens of thousands of people in his career, including 7,000 Polish officers in under a month during…
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The concept of “Four Penny Coffins” is a significant yet somber element in the history of Victorian London, reflecting the plight of the impoverished during that…
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In 1911, an unlikely baseball team took the field at the Wyoming State Penitentiary – a team comprised entirely of inmates sentenced to death for violent…
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“The Doll Test”, which found that given a choice between Black dolls and white dolls, most Black children preferred to play with white dolls and was…
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Soviet Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 1960. Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov stands among the most prominent military figures in 20th-century history, renowned for his pivotal role in the…
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The body of Hermann Göring, Oct. 16, 1946 Hermann Göring was a prominent figure in the Nazi Party, second only to Adolf Hitler in the hierarchy…
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Choi Eun-hee and her husband, director Shin Jeong-gyun, who were kidnapped in 1978 on his orders and were forced to make North Korean films. In two…
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Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sanchez Loriga at their wedding on June 8, 1901. Their wedding was the first same-sex marriage in the history of the…
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This is Gerda Weissmann Klein. She spent three years in several different Nazi concentration camps. In late January of 1945, Gerda and 4,000 other Jewish women…