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Liri Valley, on the road to Rome, 1944.

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World War II in Color: The Italian Campaign and the Road to Rome

Two pilots (Flying Officer Albert Gerald Lewis on right, unidentified flyer at left) between flights during the Battle of Britain, RAF Fighter Command airfield, 1940.

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Remembering ‘The Few’: Photos of the Young Pilots Who Saved England

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Before and After D-Day: Color Photos From England and France

Joseph Goebbels, Eugen Ritter von Schobert, Adolf Hitler, Italian ambassador Dino Alfieri (in white jacket), architect Gerdy Troost, Martin Bormann (behind Troost), Heinrich Himmler (far right) and others at Munich's Haus der Kunst for the 1939 "Day of German Art."

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Art for the Reich’s Sake: When Nazis Celebrated ‘Aryan’ Culture

1937 Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany.

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A Brutal Pageantry: The Third Reich’s Myth-Making Machinery, in Color

The automobile engineer Ferdinand Porsche (in suit), Adolf Hitler and, immediately to Hitler's left, the head of the German Labour Front, Robert Ley, admire Hitler's birthday gift on his 50th birthday: a convertible Volkswagen.

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Hitler at 50: Color Photos From a Despot’s Garish Birthday Bash

Left to right: Hanneli Goslar (a.k.a., "Lies Goosens" in early editions of the Diary), Anne Frank, Dolly Citroen, Hannah Toby, Barbara Ledermann and Susanne Ledermann (standing), Amsterdam, 1937.

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Anne Frank’s Friends: Photos of the Girls Who Lived

Scene from a Christmas party attended by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, date unknown.

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Photos From a Nazi Christmas Party

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