Historical images - Images that made history

[Pop-Tart]

The Eternal Kraut helping spread communism.

Vintage 56%

 

[ICametoLurk]

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Group of Texas Rangers, 1906:

 

[AnOminous]

Group of Texas Rangers, 1906:

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Note trigger discipline.

 

[Vlad the Inhaler]

Munich, 1938. Hitler laughs at the world's first "How many jews can you fit in a Volkswagen?" joke.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

John Henry Holliday's aka Doc Holliday's dental school portrait.

 

[Mister Qwerty]

"Is LBJ gonna have to choke a bitch?"

 

[Silence of the Troons]

 

[SparklyFetuses]

Spoiler

"Christmas packages destined for soldiers who have been killed or reported missing in action await "return to sender" stamps. New York City, 1944."

 

[Pop-Tart]

Ok I am shit, here is more military related stuff/spam.

Christmas in the midst of the Yugoslav wars

British political cartoon making fun of 'Yankie Doodle Patriots" after the Battle of Bunker Hill

German SPD poster in the 1930s

Even the SS knew that the Norwegians are just Snow Niggers.

This next one is too long for a full image. How to Spot a Jap. Including incel Jap shuffle vs. Chad Chinese stride.

 

[Slap47]

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

The Road of Life (Доро́га жи́зни, doroga zhizni) was the ice road winter transport route across the frozen Lake Ladoga, which provided the only access to the besieged city of Leningrad while the perimeter in the siege was maintained by the German Army Group North and the Finnish Defence Forces. The siege lasted for 29 months from 8 September 1941, to 27 January 1944. Over one million citizens of Leningrad died from starvation, stress, exposure and bombardments.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

The rescue of the survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571:

 

[Vlad the Inhaler]

Note trigger discipline.

Specially the Luger. It was 1906, two years before the introduction of the ubiquitous 9mm parabellum. That's a Swiss Luger, chambered in 7.65 Luger. Look at the thin barrel. Talk about a six-figure gun.

 

[SparklyFetuses]

A black shirt, khaki pants-wearing woman (Edna Cintron, IIRC) waving for help in the North Tower's hole on 9/11.

Spoiler: What happened to her shortly after. Possibly NSFW?

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Photos which were taken during the Beagle Conflict in 1978, shortly before John Paul II requested Chile and Argentina "lol stop fighting over 3 shitty islands, fucking fags".

Few years later (and shortly before the 1984 Treaty of Peace and Friendship), Chile added a shitload of mines* in some of the Beagle Channel's islands, which are STILL active until now.

Here's an article about the weapons that were used during the (almost) war. It's in spanish, though: https://aquellasarmasdeguerra.wordp...nflicto-del-beagle-la-guerra-que-no-fue-1978/


*= Even though the mine clearance started since 2007, some minefields are still up and visits to some of the islands are restricted.

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The rescue of the survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571:

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One of the survivors' father made a painting for the hospital where the rugby players were treated.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

This next one is too long for a full image. How to Spot a Jap. Including incel Jap shuffle vs. Chad Chinese stride.

Wonder how many people got killed over something as silly as this.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

People let me tell you bout' my best friend, he's a tyrant who gasses his own people but we love him till the end.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

East German soldier helps a little boy sneak across the Berlin Wall, August 13, 1961.

This is a photograph of an East German soldier helping a little boy cross the newly erected Berlin Wall the day it was built. A boy who’d gotten left behind in the chaos of people fleeing and families caught on different sides of the border. The soldier is young, and his eyes, looking warily over his shoulder, are full of fear. And yet, he persisted.

Despite being given orders by the East German government to let no one pass into East Berlin, the soldier helped the boy sneak through the barbwire. It was reported that the soldier was caught doing this benevolent deed by his superior officer, who removed the soldier from his unit. Hopefully his punishment was minor and he wasn’t imprisoned or shot. Descriptions of this photo come with the caveat that “no one knows what became of him”.

 

[El Gordo Ramsay Sex Dwarf]

A photo of a kitty near 2 tanks, which was taken shortly after Pripyat's population evacuated from the city in 1986.

Spoiler: Info that may be tearjerking for some.

Shortly after the Chernobyl NPP explosion, people from affected areas (not just Pripyat and Chernobyl) weren't allowed to evacuate with their pets and cattle due to the fact that the animals could've had their furs contaminated with radioactive dust and spread radiation in non-affected areas, so the pets and cattle were left behind with food available for the 3-day evacuation. Sadly, a lot of days passed and the animals either died due to starvation, high radiation exposure, or killed by exterminators (A liquidator said they've found animals suffering and in pain due to radiation, so they didn't only kill them quickly to avoid further contamination, but also to put out of their misery). Those that survived became feral or were even adopted by samosely.

EDIT: Fixed a typo.

Still loads of cats in the Zone. Took this photo last year of a friendly pregnant one near the hotel in Pripyat -

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

French woman pours a cup of cider for a British Bren gunner, 1944 Normandy:

Before and after the famous execution picture of Nguyen Van Lem by Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Saigon, 1968:

(note the ARVN soldier on the left with the captured Norinco Type 56)
Edit: (also note the ARVN soldier in tiger stripe carrying a Tokarev pistol. Van Lem had just been caught literally red-handed murdering a ARVN Lt. Col., his wife, his six children, and his 80-year-old mother.)

(note the ARVN soldier on the right using the original M3 Grease Gun with charging handle)

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

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East German soldier helps a little boy sneak across the Berlin Wall, August 13, 1961.

I think it's unlikely that the soldier lost his life over this, but he might be deemed unfit for service, dishonorably discharged and... well... pretty much bound to never work anywhere ever again.