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Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who went into hiding in Amsterdam during the Second World War to escape from the Nazis. Her diary was first published (in Dutch) on 25 June 1947. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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London burns behind Tower Bridge on 7 September 1940, the day of the first mass air raid on the capital. Some 448 Britons were killed in the raid. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

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Femmes allemandes portant des enfants d'une prétendue pureté aryenne dans un Lebensborn, centre de sélection des naissances par des méthodes eugénistes, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
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Charles Cundall’s painting ‘The Withdrawal From Dunkirk, June 1940’. (Photo by IWM via Getty Images)

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British former field marshal Douglas Haig, inspects poppies before Armistice Day, October 1922. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, observed by Queen Catherine (of Aragon), who is stood in the doorway. Anne has been playing the lute for the king, watched by a gathering of courtiers. Cardinal Wolsey, right of centre, looks on. Painting by Marcus Stone, 1870. Private collection. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring on the balcony of the Reichs Chancellery, Berlin. One British journalist recalled how, in 1933, Göring began an attack against the foreign press unlike any he had previously witnessed. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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