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Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:14am On Aug 12, 2017 |
They say a picture is worth a thousand words… and these rare historical photos are no exception. |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:15am On Aug 12, 2017 |
1. Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942 2 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:17am On Aug 12, 2017 |
2. The last Jew in Vinnitsa, 1941 1 Share
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:19am On Aug 12, 2017 |
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. |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:21am On Aug 12, 2017 |
3. German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:24am On Aug 12, 2017 |
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. 1 Like 3 Shares
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:26am On Aug 12, 2017 |
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. 4 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:29am On Aug 12, 2017 |
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. 8 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:32am On Aug 12, 2017 |
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. 2 Shares
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:33am On Aug 12, 2017 |
8. Defiant until the very end, a German Communist being executed in Munich, 1919 16 Likes 4 Shares
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by mendelian(m): 11:34am On Aug 12, 2017 |
that of the soldier is really touching 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by pressplay411(m): 11:38am On Aug 12, 2017 |
I think Trump and Kim need to see this! All these dic swinging childish threats between them must cease. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:43am On Aug 12, 2017 |
9. Job hunting in 1930’s 11 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:46am On Aug 12, 2017 |
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. 6 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:48am On Aug 12, 2017 |
11. Hans-Georg Henke – 16 Year Old German soldier crying 3 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Quelme: 11:49am On Aug 12, 2017 |
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. 4 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by abbeyfx2(m): 2:01pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
Nice |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by nitt: 2:43pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
This is deep and makes one reflect on events today 2 Likes |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Ichietome: 3:04pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
Kwantinue |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Requiem18(m): 4:47pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
Wars that fukked us up more than them..... Life is a big joke isn't it? 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by GURION: 5:07pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
Quelme: This is just so sad! 1 Like |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by IdeeEsperanza(m): 5:13pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
...and some people are praying for war? God forbid!!! 3 Likes |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by sleeknick: 5:34pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by policy12: 5:38pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
Quelme: What a passionate priest... What a loving man. 3 Likes |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by policy12: 5:41pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
Quelme: Unemployment since 1930. Will d problem of this world ever end? |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by teekay213(m): 5:51pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
pressplay411:I swear they should really see it. |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by MrExcel(m): 6:16pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
The bastards clamouring for war have not seen one before. I learned of the importance of peace when in 2011, after the Presidential brouhaha 1 Like |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by xreal: 6:16pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
Those IPOB guys should read this. During war.. everything is correct. 1 Like |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by Hisxellency: 6:19pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
Interesting |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by marsoden: 6:33pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
War is crazy and very scary. 1 Like |
Re: Historical Photos That Completely Shook The World by jaszplus12(m): 6:49pm On Aug 12, 2017 |
pressplay411: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!!! 2 Likes |
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