21 Fascinating Photos Collected From History
Nathan Johnson
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09/28/2017
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Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and the only surviving member of the Frank family revisiting the attic they spent the war in, May 3, 1960 -
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Nazi Rally being held at the “Cathedral of Light” in Nuremberg. Designed by Albert Speer, the “cathedral” actually consisted of 152 anti-aircraft searchlights, at intervals of 12 metres, aimed skyward to create a series of vertical bars surrounding the audience. 1930’s. -
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Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald, April 16, 1945 -
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Jewish prisoners of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, on a transport to Theresienstadt north of Prague, moments after they were liberated by the US forces on April 1945 -
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Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight in 1893 -
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The morning after a long night awaiting a Viet Cong attack that never came. 40 miles East of Saigon, Vietnam, 1965 -
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Two South Vietnamese soldiers question a suspected Viet Cong women at gunpoint in 1967 -
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US soldiers in Vietnam hear the radio report that they’re going home -
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The earliest photograph of baseball being played in California, 1860s -
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Burnt out Panzer IV and crew during the Battle of the Falaise Pocket, August 1944 -
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Looking at this map gives you a slight idea of how horrible the German’s position was. -
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A Bosnian Serb woman mourns over the remains of her son killed in 1992 after it was found in a common grave, in Bosnia during the Balkan Wars -
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The father of one of the four boys, all from the Bakr family, killed during Israeli shelling -
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Harry Houdini stands in chains at the edge of a pier ready to dive into the water in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1906 -
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“White Death” – Simo “Simuna” Häyhä – with visible damage to his left cheek, after his 1940 wound -
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Human Oddities of Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus – 1924 -
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Paratroopers of Easy Company (Band of Brothers), at Berghof (Adolf Hitler’s home in the Bavarian Alps), 1945 -
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An Akita dog named Hachiko was so loyal to his owner that he waited for his owner for 9 years until he died. His owner would take the train to work and back, and Hachiko greeted him every time he came back. Even after his owner died of a hemmorhage at work, Hachiko thought he’d come back -
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The last photo of Hachikō, the dog who waited for his master’s return each day for 9 years until he too passed away -
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Hachiko, Forever Reunited With His Human -
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Marilyn Monroe 1940s
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