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Adolf Hitler's Nazi campaign includes the indoctrination of children in Berlin, Feb. 24, 1936. The boys are trained for future military service and the girls to be obedient hausfraus. Here a group of boys proudly march beneath Nazi standards. 

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This week, Critical State, our weekly foreign policy newsletter, looks at how the Germanization project of Hitler Youth played out in the borderlands of the Reich’s new holdings.

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World War II veterans walk to a wreath laying ceremony at the National World War II Memorial on Veteran's Day to pay tribute to the more than 16 million men and women who served with U.S. armed forces during World War II.

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