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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:15am On Aug 26, 2017 |
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:17am On Aug 26, 2017 |
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:21am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947. It’s famously know as, “The Most Beautiful Suicide”.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:26am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961 Leonid Rogozov was a Soviet general practitioner who took part in the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1960–1961. He was the only doctor stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station and, while there, developed appendicitis, which meant he had to perform an appendectomy on himself, a famous case of self-surgery. In 1961, Rogozov was stationed at a newly constructed Russian base in Antarctica. 2 Likes
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:28am On Aug 26, 2017 |
A pile of bodies awaits cremation after the bombing of Dresden, 1945 The bombing of Dresden in February 1945 has remained one of the more controversial aspects of World War Two. Dresden, a city unaffected by bombing up to that point in the war, lost many thousands of civilians in the firestorm that was created by the Allies.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:31am On Aug 26, 2017 |
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:32am On Aug 26, 2017 |
US soldiers pose with the bodies of Moro insurgents, Philippines, 1906 On March 7, 1906, US troops under the command of Major General Leonard Wood massacred as many as 1,000 Filipino Muslims, known as Moros, who were taking refuge at Bud Dajo, a volcanic crater on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines. The First Battle of Bud Dajo, also known as the Bud Dajo Massacre.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:34am On Aug 26, 2017 |
The shells from an allied creeping bombardment on German lines, 1916 Lone soldier surrounded by a mountain of empty shell cases, France. This lone British soldier up to his knees in spent shell cases, offers a striking impression of the destruction that took place on the Western Front.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:36am On Aug 26, 2017 |
The atomic cloud over Nagasaki, 1945 This is believed to be the earliest photograph from the ground, 15 minutes after the plutonium bomb detonated over Nagasaki. The destruction was so incredible that there is no count on how many people died that day.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:37am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Hiroshima – Before and After (1945)
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:39am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Bloody Saturday – a crying Chinese baby amid the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai’s South Railway Station, 1937 “Bloody Saturday” – Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai South Railway Station, the photograph became known as a cultural icon demonstrating Japanese wartime atrocities in China.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:41am On Aug 26, 2017 |
775 confirmed kills in one picture, 1945 Female snipers of the 3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front. 1st row – Guard Staff Sergeant, VN Stepanov: 20 kills. Guard Sgt JP Belousov: 80 kills. Guard Sgt AE Vinogradov: 83 kills. 2nd row – Guard Lieutenant EK Zhibovskaya: 24 kills. Guard Sgt KF Marinkin: 79 kills. Guard Sgt OS Marenkina: 70 kills. 3rd row – Guard Lieutenant NP Belobrova: 70 kills.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:43am On Aug 26, 2017 |
German soldier giving bread to an orphaned Russian boy, 1942
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Nobody: 6:44am On Aug 26, 2017 |
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:45am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Executions of Kiev Jews by German army mobile killing units, 1942 Execution of Kiev Jews by German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivanograd, Ukraine. The executioner appears to be standing over the body of an already executed person. The gun barrels of other executioners are visible at the left-hand edge of the photograph.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:46am On Aug 26, 2017 |
rafhell:are you a professor of history? |
Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:48am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Ukrainian askaris standing near bodies of murdered Jews, Warsaw, 1943 Two Ukrainian Askaris peer into a doorway past the bodies of Jews killed during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The original German caption reads: “Askaris used during the operation.” Askaris were Red Army deserters who formed units fighting on Eastern front. During WWII, the Germans used the term “askaris” for Red Army deserters who formed units fighting against the Red Army.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:51am On Aug 26, 2017 |
A German prisoner of war escorted by a Soviet soldier, Stalingrad, 1943 In this photograph, a Red Army solider is seen marching a German solider into captivity after the Battle of Stalingrad. The Germans were being rounded up prior to marched to death. The Battle of Stalingrad was amongst the bloodiest battles ever fought in the history of warfare with more than 2 million casualties. 1 Like
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:53am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Rudolf Hoess the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is hanged next to the crematorium at the camp, 1947 Rudolf Hoess (Rudolf Höss) was the architect and commandant of the largest killing center ever created, the death camp Auschwitz, whose name has come to symbolize humanity’s ultimate descent into evil.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:55am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szalasi is given the last rites before being hanged as a collaborator, 1946 Ferenc Szálasi was the leader and all-powerful head of the fascist Arrow Cross movement, the regime that came to power in Hungary with the armed assistance of the Germans on October 15-16, 1944. After that date, the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews was in his hands.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:57am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Two Soviet infantrymen frozen to death in their foxhole, Finland, 1940 The Soviets had to bring troops from far away to the Finnish front. Some of the soldiers were from the south and hadn’t ever experienced winter conditions like this before, combine that with Finnish patrols destroying the support lines and the hardest winter in a lifetime. The lack of food and supplies was huge, they did lack winter warfare training and gear.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 6:59am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Turkish official teasing starved Armenian children by showing bread during the Armenian Genocide, 1915 The Armenian Genocide also known as the Armenian Holocaust, and traditionally among Armenians, as the Great Crime was the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland in the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. 1 Share
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 7:00am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Crossed rifles in the sand placed as a tribute to this fallen soldier, 1944 Crossed rifles in the sand are a comrade’s tribute to this American soldier who sprang ashore from a landing barge and died at the barricades of Western Europe, 1944. Some days after D-Day, Omaha Beach. It had to have been after the artillery was stopped.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 7:02am On Aug 26, 2017 |
French female collaborator punished by having her head shaved to publicly mark her, 1944 French women who befriended the Nazis, through coerced, forced, or voluntary relationships, were singled out for shameful retribution following the liberation of France. The woman photographed here, believed to have been a prostitute who serviced German occupiers, is having her head shaved by French civilians to publicly mark her. This picture was taken in Montelimar, France, August 29, 1944.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 7:04am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Abandoned boy holding a stuffed animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1945 Toni Frissell’s famous image of an abandoned boy clutching a stuffed animal in the rubble of 1945 London. The boy did in fact survive the war. In the photo he’s actually sitting outside where his house used to be. The child is sitting alone in the ruble with his stuffed animal. 1 Like
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 7:05am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Shell shocked soldier, 1916 Shell shocked soldier in a trench during the Battle of Courcelette (France) in September 1916. His eyes express the madness of the war. The soldier looks like he has gone insane from what he has seen.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 7:10am On Aug 26, 2017 |
The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith (black African Americans) , 1930.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 7:13am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Malnourished children in Eastern Nigeria during the Nigerian civil war, 1968.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 7:15am On Aug 26, 2017 |
Rwanda Massacre - A group of Hutus began slaughtering the Tutsis in the African country of Rwanda. The genocide left 800,000 dead. This photo shows the bloody feet of children attempting to escape slaughter by climbing the walls. (1994)
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 7:17am On Aug 26, 2017 |
The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassment after 4 days (1957)
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 7:19am On Aug 26, 2017 |
And lastly. Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.
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Re: Horrifically Sad Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by waledeji(m): 7:52am On Aug 26, 2017 |
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