Boy Waves To Soldiers On The Berlin Wall

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A despatch rider during WW1, as featured in new Sam Mendes film '1917'

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Peronne, March 1917

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Setting a trap: East German soldiers construct the Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961. The barrier was an attempt to stop the flood of Germans fleeing from east to west – yet, as scores of audacious escape bids attest, it didn't entirely succeed. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

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Marshal Foch and his accompaniment leaving Compiègne in order to inform the French government in Paris about the Armistice agreement with Germany. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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East Germans crowd around and on the Berlin Wall the day after the gates opened for free movement in 1989

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A ‘Trabi’ – the classic East German Trabant 601 car

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A man attacks the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of November 9th, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to the West. The announcement was misinterpreted as meaning the border was now open and East German border guards were unable to stop the rush of people to the Wall. Within hours people were smashing sections of the Wall with their own hand tools and these first cracks in the Wall led to the complete opening of the border within days. (Photo by robert wallis/Corbis via Getty Images)

20th CenturygalleryIn pictures: remembering the Berlin Wall 30 years on

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The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden

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A portrait of Queen Victoria and her family

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Chancellor Adolf Hitler with President Paul von Hindenburg, Berlin, 1 May 1933

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Poles watch the first of the German invasion planes over Warsaw, 1939. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Adolf Hitler watches German troops march in central Poland

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Brendan Simms photographed by Ian Farrell

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Margaretha Geertruida Zelle called Mata Hari (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

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Members of the Home Guard train racing pigeons as messengers in Blackburn, July 1940. Soon, carrier birds like this would be supplying vital intelligence on German arms factories and troop movements in occupied Europe. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Mary Fulbrook and Richard J Evans. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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The killing zone: This photograph by Robert F Sargent, known as ‘Taxis to Hell – and Back – into the Jaws of Death’, shows American troops wading towards Omaha Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/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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Adolf Hitler with his mistress, Eva Braun, in the early to mid-1940s. The pair married on 29 April 1945, the day before they committed suicide together. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

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Petra Kelly. “Through sheer force of will, Petra Kelly put green politics on the map. Her success in Germany in the 1980s inspired green parties across the world to shake things up,” says Caroline Lucas. (Photo by Schulze-Vorberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Paddy Ashdown. (Photo by Alamy)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, 1934. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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An American recruitment poster. “US forces showed an impressive ability to learn at speed,” says Nick Lloyd. (© Getty)

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The Ghent Altarpiece. (Image by Getty Images)

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