They say a picture is worth a thousand words… and these rare historical photos are no exception.

1. Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942

2. The last Jew in Vinnitsa, 1941

A picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa”. It shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.

3. German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945

4. Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad, 1944


In the end, this turned out to be a mock execution intended to make him talk. Also it was staged for intimidation of other resistance fighters. He was forwarded to a concentration camp, where he was selected for termination on arrival, dying some time in late November 1944.

5. German soldier returns home only to find his family no longer there, 1946


The photo of a German prisoner of war returning to his home town of Frankfurt to discover his house bombed and his family no longer there, shows the kind the depressing moments of dejected subjects we associate with images of war.

6. A Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, 1945


Joe O’Donnell, the man who took this photo at Nagasaki, was sent by the U.S. military to document the damage inflicted on the Japanese homeland caused by air raids of fire bombs and atomic bombs. Over the next seven months starting September 1945, he traveled across Western Japan chronicling the devastation, revealing the plight of the bomb victims including the dead.

7. The face of war: The first press pictures of dead U.S. soldiers that was presented to the public, 1943


At a time when censors used a heavy hand to keep the American public from knowing and seeing the carnage in the Pacific during World War II, this ground-breaking photograph of dead American soldiers confronted the American public for the first time with the real face of the war.

8. Defiant until the very end, a German Communist being executed in Munich, 1919

that of the soldier is really touching

I think Trump and Kim need to see this!
All these dic swinging childish threats between them must cease.

9. Job hunting in 1930’s

10. The priest and the dying soldier, 1962


Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela. Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, who pulled himself up by clinging to the priest’s cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them.

11. Hans-Georg Henke – 16 Year Old German soldier crying

12. Facing the Death: the different expressions of six Polish civilians moments before death by firing squad, 1939


It’s interesting to see the range of emotions displayed by these men. Anguish, defiance, stoicism, acceptance and fear, the third one from the left is even smiling. This execution happened during the Bloody Sunday in Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), Poland, 1939. Bloody Sunday was a series of killings of members of the German minority that took place at the beginning of World War II.

Nice

This is deep and makes one reflect on events today

Kwantinue

Wars that fukked us up more than them..... Life is a big joke isn't it?

Quelme:
6. A Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, 1945


Joe O’Donnell, the man who took this photo at Nagasaki, was sent by the U.S. military to document the damage inflicted on the Japanese homeland caused by air raids of fire bombs and atomic bombs. Over the next seven months starting September 1945, he traveled across Western Japan chronicling the devastation, revealing the plight of the bomb victims including the dead.

This is just so sad!

...and some people are praying for war?
God forbid!!!

Quelme:
10. The priest and the dying soldier, 1962


Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela. Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, who pulled himself up by clinging to the priest’s cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them.

What a passionate priest... What a loving man.

Quelme:
9. Job hunting in 1930’s

Unemployment since 1930. Will d problem of this world ever end?

pressplay411:
I think Trump and Kim need to see this!
All these dic swinging childish threats between them must cease.

I swear they should really see it.

The bastards clamouring for war have not seen one before. I learned of the importance of peace when in 2011, after the Presidential brouhaha

Those IPOB guys should read this.


During war.. everything is correct.

Interesting

War is crazy and very scary.

pressplay411:
I think Trump and Kim need to see this!
All these dic swinging childish threats between them must cease.

true! even here in Nigeria people need to see this and know that war is never the answer to a nation's problem! agitations must be done with words not hate speeches!!!