Inventor Edwin Herbert Land, demonstrates his instant camera that makes it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in 60 seconds or less, 1947

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1935 Mugshot of Erich Honecker, the later head of state of the GDR (German Democratic Republic)

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Sergei Korolev the day he was returned to Moscow prison after one year in GULAG. He would launch the first human into space April 12, 1961

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Dr Mengele’s South American ID. Mengele came extremely close to being caught throughout his time there, but slipped the net each time.

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Ferdinand Demara, known as 'The Great Impostor,' posed as a surgeon aboard a Navy destroyer during the Korean War. When forced to operate on 16 patients, he speed-read a general surgery textbook and successfully performed all procedures without any deaths.

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My 28 year old grandpa in 1963, Bucharest Romania

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My Grandfather fought facists and spied on the Franco regime in the early 1940s.

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These kids were asked to draw their fathers from memory, 1949. Which one is your favourite?

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Alois Brunner – one of the most despicable Nazi criminals to survive the war and escape justice – died an old, desperate and physically broken man after more than a decade of confinement in a Syrian basement (for years he trained Syrian torturers but fell out of favor with the Assad family).

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My grandpa, a veterinarian, inspecting an early prototype of the internet in the 1950's

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In 1970's, Billionaire Daniel Keith Ludwig had his blood samples frozen, believing his ex-wife's daughter, Patricia, might challenge his will and claim his property. Patricia filed a lawsuit after his death, but DNA analysis proved Ludwig was not her father, and the case was dismissed.

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Adolf Hitler depicted by the US Secret Service in 1944 to show how he might disguise himself to evade capture

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Ira Hayes, a Native American marine immortalized raising the American flag over Iwo Jima, sits in a Los Angeles jail cell (1953). Crippling PTSD and unwanted fame saw Hayes arrested 52 times for public intoxication after the war. He froze to death in the Arizona desert while drunk in 1955.