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A group of soldiers knelt in a forest of southern Poland in the fall of 1939 and buried several flags. They’d been defeated by invading Nazi German forces but didn’t want anything to happen to ...

A group of soldiers knelt in a forest of southern Poland in the fall of 1939 and buried several flags. They’d been defeated by invading Nazi German forces but didn’t want anything to happen to ...

A group of soldiers knelt in a forest of southern Poland in the fall of 1939 and buried several flags. They’d been defeated by invading Nazi German forces but didn’t want anything to happen to ...

A group of soldiers knelt in a forest of southern Poland in the fall of 1939 and buried several flags. They’d been defeated by invading Nazi German forces but didn’t want anything to happen to ...

A group of soldiers knelt in a forest of southern Poland in the fall of 1939 and buried several flags. They’d been defeated by invading Nazi German forces but didn’t want anything to happen to ...

A group of soldiers knelt in a forest of southern Poland in the fall of 1939 and buried several flags. They’d been defeated by invading Nazi German forces but didn’t want anything to happen to ...

A group of soldiers knelt in a forest of southern Poland in the fall of 1939 and buried several flags. They’d been defeated by invading Nazi German forces but didn’t want anything to happen to ...

A group of soldiers knelt in a forest of southern Poland in the fall of 1939 and buried several flags. They’d been defeated by invading Nazi German forces but didn’t want anything to happen to ...