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A British plane in Gibraltar prepares for its flight to the United Kingdom as searchlights shine in the background (date unspecified).

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A young French girl clings to her mother in May 1940 as French civilians flee the German Army offensive in the north of France.

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Adolf Hitler (standing, center) declares war on the United States at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany on December 11, 1941.

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Battered religious figures stand amid the rubble of Nagasaki, Japan on September 24, 1945, six weeks after the U.S. destroyed the city with an atomic bomb.

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Photo taken at the instant that bullets from a French firing squad hit a French man who had collaborated with the Germans in Rennes, France on November 21, 1944.

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A French man weeps as German soldiers march into Paris on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France.

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U.S. Navy sailors rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken battleship USS West Virginia amid the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

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The crematory ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp, April 1945.

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Adolf Hitler and his entourage walk near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on June 23, 1940, following the occupation of France by the Nazis.

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French anti-aircraft fire during a Nazi raid on Algiers, 1943.