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Hideki Tojo receiving his death sentence, Tokyo, Japan, 12 Nov 1948	Edmund Veesenmayer at the Nuremberg Trials, Germany, 1946-1949

Edmund Veesenmayer making his final statement during the Nuremberg Trials in Germany, 1949	Otozo Yamada on trial, Khabarovsk, Russia, 1949

1950 US Army topographic map of Lamiin Süme region of Manchuria in China and of Mongolia	Camp file of Jerzy Kazmirkiewicz, Polish political prisoner number 382 at Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp, Austria

Ruins of Hotel Adlon and surroundings on Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany, 23 Mar 1950	Jürgen Stroop at Polish court, Warsaw, Poland, 1951

Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and his aide Jiro Shirasu in a passenger aircraft en route to the San Francisco Peace Conference, Sep 1951	Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida signing the Treaty of San Francisco, California, United States, 8 Sep 1951, photo 1 of 2

Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida signing the Treaty of San Francisco, California, United States, 8 Sep 1951, photo 2 of 2	Map showing British radar range between Sep 1939 and Sep 1940, published in 1953

Map of the layout of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. A symbol of a cross with a wreath marks the location of the Horák family farm where all 173 of Lidice’s men were murdered by the SS on 10 Jun 1942.	Crew of the USS Bennington honoring the sunken USS Arizona as she passes in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 31 May 1958. Note that Bennington now has an angled flight deck and a starboard side deck edge aircraft elevator.

1959 chart of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.	Japanese Type A Kō-hyōteki-class midget submarine used in the Pearl Harbor Attack recovered from the Keehi Lagoon off Honolulu, Hawaii, 6 Jul 1960. A floating heavy-lift crane is lowering the submarine onto a lighter.

USS Current alongside Pearl Harbor Salvage Dock as Floating Crane YD-121 lifts a Japanese Type A Kō-hyōteki-class midget submarine used in the Pearl Harbor Attack salvaged from Oahu’s Keehi Lagoon, 14 Jul 1960.	Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in Taiwan, Taipei City Hall (now Zhongshan Hall), Taipei, Taiwan, 25 Oct 1965, photo 1 of 2

Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in Taiwan, Taipei City Hall (now Zhongshan Hall), Taipei, Taiwan, 25 Oct 1965, photo 2 of 2	Painting 'Battle of the River Plate' by Edward Tufnell