Gatling Gun, Baker's Battery - 1905
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Gatling Gun, Baker's Battery - 1905
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1889 Independent Order of Good Templars Commission
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The Nazi Ostarbeiter (Eastern Worker) Program
The Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP
The Reinhard Heydrich "Death Mask" Stamp
The song of WW II - "Lili Marlene"
Signed photograph of Waffen-SS General Otto Kumm
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NKVD Black ID Book for a WW II Soviet Gulag (labor camp) officer
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Russian Medal for Action in the Chechnya Civil War
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The Sinking of the Estrellano by U-37 - A Survivor's Story
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