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Cover of the special edition Der Tag von Potsdam (Potsdam Day) on March 21 1933, a ceremony for the re-opening of the German Reichstag in the weekly newspaper Die Woche.
Portrait of Frederick the Great by Klaus Richter (1919). The Prussian King was glorified by the Nazis as a precursor to Hitler.
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Fajã dos Padres
is a locality situaded south of the island of Madeira, Portugal. A deserted beach is isolated in a area of untouched nature.
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