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TIL that the same photographer who took a picture of Joseph Goebbels glaring at the camera (allegedly because he learned that Eisenstaedt was Jewish) also took the famous picture of a US sailor kissing a woman on Times Square on V-E-Day: Alfred Eisenstaedt

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