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Soldiers of the Third Reich surround a huge bonfire during a winter solstice festival in December 1936. The Nazis attempted to use elements of pagan beliefs to promote a Germanic ‘national religiosity’. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A runner is helped across a finish line

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Medal winners on a podium

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A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

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Crown Prince Olav on his ice yacht (Getty Images)

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Belgium and the Netherlands compete in a tug of war at the Antwerp Olympic

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Mao Zedong applauds a parade of Red Guards in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. These young militants followed Mao’s call in early August 1966 to defend the party from a ‘white terror’. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Reign of the red terror: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster

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Tokyo Olympics 1964: Yoshinori Sakai prepares to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony. Born on the day that the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, he was a symbol of Japan’s postwar reconstruction and peace

Tokyo Olympics 1964: the Games that defined Japan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Should they stand or fall? The great statue debate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The execution of Louis XVI in the Place de la Revolution

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Watergate in 100 days: how President Nixon fell

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England's World Cup-winning captain, Bobby Moore (1941–93) kisses the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy after England's 4-2 win over West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final at Wembley Stadium, London. Also pictured are Moore's team-mates George Cohen, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

In pictures: when England won the football World Cup

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Second World War

Tobruk: 8 facts about the WW2 confrontation in North Africa

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Kurdish fighters in north-west Iran, 1918

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