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Five uniformed soldiers with light skin tone stand in the center of several vehicles looking upwards. Behind them, fire and smoke billow out of a large building. There are a few other people standing in the background that might be firefighters or soldiers.
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Jürgen Stroop

Jürgen Stroop (third from left), SS commander who crushed the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, between April 19 and May 16, 1943.

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