Historical images - Images that made history

[Retrofire]

Warsaw Uprising; Polish resistance fighters (against the German occupation).

rebellion was undertaken with the expectation of Soviet support... which were right outside the city. Soviets intentionally allowed the Germans to kill off the resistance, to prevent western forces from occupying the city after.

Germans killed every last solider, and then genocided every Polish civilian (~250,000) in Warsaw, before burning the city to the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising

(intention avoidance of "axis-allies")

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Post in thread 'Random Pics, Gifs, and Vids'

Dec 25, 2025

Hitler on Christmas


Kreigsmarine sailors celebrating Christmas aboard their U-boat


Volkssturm members celebrating Christmas in a bunker, 1944


Santa Claus sketch by Adolf Hiter, 1909

• Seafarer

Reactions: x 10 x 12 x 7 x 1

 

[Carlos Thin]

Author William S. Burroughs endorses Mr. Peanut for Mayor of Vancouver in 1974.

A performance artist ran for Mayor under the platform of the arts and his campaign revolved around attending events dressed as Mr. Peanut (Peanut spelled out the goals of his campaign). The reason why Burroughs was involved was by complete chance, he was visiting Vancouver at the time and the artist contacted him for an endorsement. He even gave a speech on his behalf:--
"I would like to take this opportunity to endorse the candidacy of Mr Peanut for mayor of Vancouver. Mr Peanut is running on the art platform, and art is the creation of illusion. Since the inexorable logic of reality has created nothing but insolvable problems, it is now time for illusion to take over. And there can only be one illogical candidate-Mr Peanut.”

He unfortunately got a mere 2,600 votes.

 

[General Patton]

Evacuees from London to a Sussex farm are enchanted by the first lambs of the year on New Year's Day.




Cabaret artiste Mary Barbour as the Spirit of the New Year, Grosvenor House, London, England, circa 1930.



Wounded soldiers having tea at a New Year's Party in January 1917.



Revelers reach up to falling balloons at the Chelsea Arts Ball New Year's Eve party at the Royal Albert Hall, London, Dec. 31, 1956.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

View attachment 8257244

Nasser and Gaddafi, both Cold War North African leaders, wild takes on socialism. Historians can’t agree if they helped or just fucked everything up.

Gadaffi was a religious hardass but then so is every pan-Arab movement.

I see them and the Arab nationalist movement as a whole as a path not fully walked. They were failed Bismarks and Garibaldis. A tragedy.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

An old Rolling Stone magazine cover of the famed British group Radiohead which was released after international success from their critically acclaimed album, Kid A

 

[Carlos Thin]

View attachment 8431867

An old Rolling Stone magazine cover of the famed British group Radiohead which was released after international success from their critically acclaimed album, Kid A

Back when Rolling Stone Magazine was good. Just kidding, it was always a contentious rag.

 

[General Patton]

Nine Inch Nails performing at Woodstock '94 while covered in mud.

 

[Carlos Thin]

Uncle Sam's Disco at 7th Street in Minneapolis. Originally a Greyhound bus station, it turned into a national disco franchise in 1972. Because this was the mid-west in the early 70s, and catered to a almost entirely white crowd they weren't playing obscure Northern Soul records, but rather the latest pop hits.


The MC of the night would dress up like Uncle Sam

The waitress attire

The typical clientele

In 1979 Uncle Sam's shut down, it was quickly bought up and turned independent. They retained the name Sam's, but put the focus more on it being a venue for bands and (sensing the times) electronic music from Europe and the U.K., rather than disco.

Ramones

Husker Du

The electronic nights were the more popular draws during the time, and the weekly disco nights remined popular

Morris Day & The Time

U2

Comedian Louis Anderson

And of course Prince, who quickly declared the venue his "home"

Sam's was shut down in 1982, but the work it had put in solidified its reputation as one of the most important venues of the mid-west. It was quickly repurposed and its name changed to the one it has today: First Avenue.

 

[Plantation Barbie]

President James Polk, former first lady Dolly Madison and future president James Buchanan All in the same photograph.

 

[General Patton]

Henry Gunther, the last American soldier who died in WW1. He was killed at 10:59 a.m., about one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11:00 a.m.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Nicholas II and his lovely wife, Alexandra, 1906.

 

[General Patton]

World War One British soldier, Private Herbert Francis Burden. He apparently lied about his age and enlisted to fight at the age of 16.

Having joined the 1st South Northumberland Fusiliers, he soon deserted, returned to London and joined the East Surrey Regiment, whom he also soon deserted. Rejoining his old battalion, he was sent to France when the army believed him to be 19 years old, and he probably fought at the Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge in May 1915. Having already gone absent without leave (AWOL) from his unit on multiple occasions, he left his post once again the following month. He said to see a friend in the neighboring regiment, but he was arrested and accused of desertion.
Found guilty, he was executed by firing squad two days later aged 17.

He's the youngest soldier to have been executed in World War One.

In 2001 his case, and his image, was the basis for a memorial statue in the National Memorial Arboretum to those who had been unfairly executed by twentieth-century standards, and five years later Burden and the other men were granted pardons by the British government.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

These two were descendants of the Ottoman Sultan.

Henry Gunther, the last American soldier who died in WW1. He was killed at 10:59 a.m., about one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11:00 a.m.

View attachment 8433869

View attachment 8433872

His death was a tragedy

 

[JeanRob1]

These two were descendants of the Ottoman Sultan.

They don't look like Turks, more like Bosnians or Albanese. How many generations of slaves have been raped in order to look like this ?

 

[General Patton]

His death was a tragedy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lGq_2gf6Nv0

Talk about bad luck. To survive for so long in that hell and then dying in literally the last minute.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Talk about bad luck. To survive for so long in that hell and then dying in literally the last minute.

Not sure what would be worse, to survive for so long and be killed, or to have just been deployed and be killed.

The Executive Mansion of the President of Liberia in 1928:


Not a coincidence it looks like a Southern plantation. The Americo-Liberians copied antebellum architecture when building their houses, churches and other structures.

 

[AnOminous]

Not a coincidence it looks like a Southern plantation. The Americo-Liberians copied antebellum architecture when building their houses, churches and other structures.

They also co-opted enslaving Africans.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Young Ronald Reagan when he was a lifeguard:

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

An old but rare photo from the NY Daily News which showed a story of the time popular NY figure Donald Trump saving a man from being almost beaten to death with a baseball bat on a street