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Santa Claus with the Children During Croatian War, Vukovar, 1992
The picture was taken in Vukovar in 1992 and the people in the photo are most likely ethnic Serbs. The reason is that Vukovar came under the control of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) back in November of 1991. At that point, most ethnic Croats fled the…
Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, Infamous From the Movie “Schindler’s List”, Standing on His Balcony Preparing to Shoot Prisoners, 1943
Amon Leopold Goeth (German: Amon Göth) the villain of the movie Schindler's List, was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria. At the age of 24, he joined the Nazi party. In 1940, Amon Goeth became a member of the Waffen-SS. He was assigned to the SS headquarte…
Execution by Cannon: A Brutal Historical Practice Used by the British and Mughals
The invention of the cannon in the 12th century revolutionized warfare, and soon after, this powerful weapon found a horrifying use – executions. Cannons became instruments of torture, with condemned prisoners strapped to their muzzles and blasted to pieces…
Soviet Soldiers Openly Sexually Harass a German Woman in Leipzig, 1945
Soviet soldiers openly sexually harass a passing German woman near the West Hall section of the Leipzig Hauptbahnhof central railway terminus. As Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of the war, mass rapes took pla…
Romanian Revolution of 1989 in Rare Historical Pictures
Nicolae Ceausescu ruled Romania for 21 years, earning a reputation as a brutal dictator. During his reign, he developed the largest network of spies in Eastern Europe, silenced his opposition with a secret police force known as the Securitate, and eventual…
American Airman Dewey Wayne Waddell, Held Prisoner in Vietnam, 1967
Downed U.S. airman Dewey Waddell was taken captive by Vietnamese communist fighters in 1967, and he was released in 1973. The photo, taken by GDR war correspondent Thomas Billhardt, features a female guerrilla holding an American soldier captive and esc…
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. On 1 May 1940, Hoess was appointed commandant of a …
Terrifying Photo of a Shell Shocked Soldier from 1916
A shell shocked soldier in a trench during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive in September 1916. His eyes express the madness of the war. The soldier looks like he has gone insane from what he has seen. At that moment in time eve…
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 Nazi Germany on October 15-16, 1944. After that date, the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jew…
Photos from the Last Public Execution by Guillotine, 1939
In the early morning of 17 June 1939, Eugène Weidmann became the last person to be publicly executed by guillotine. He had been convicted of multiple kidnappings and murders, including that of a young American socialite. Beginning with the botched kidna…
Nazi General Anton Dostler is Tied to a Stake Before his Execution by a Firing Squad, 1945
General Anton Dostler was a general of the infantry in the regular German Army during World War II. In the first Allied war trial after the war, Dostler was found guilty of war crimes and executed by firing squad. He ordered and oversaw the unlawf…
Japanese Troops Using Prisoners of War for Target Practice, 1942
The Japanese treatment of prisoners of war in World War II was barbaric. The men shown in the above picture are part of the Sikh Regiment of the British Indian Army. All of them are sitting in the traditional cross-legged prayer position. They’re probab…
Portrait of Hugo Sperrle: Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe in 1940
Hugo Sperrle was a German field marshal of the Luftwaffe during World War II. His forces were deployed solely on the Western Front and the Mediterranean throughout the war. By 1944 he had become Supreme Commander of the Luftwaffe in the West. It is ofte…
Stalin in An Off-Record Photo Captured by His Bodyguard Vlasik
Vlasik’s off-the-record photos of Stalin caused a sensation in the early 1960s when an enterprising Soviet journalist spirited some out, selling them to newspapers and magazines worldwide. This photo shows how human this “monster” was, like Hitler with his…
Adolf Eichmann Walks Around the Yard of his Cell, 1961
Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, Eichmann was charged by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydr…
Executions of Kiev Jews by German Army Mobile Killing Units, 1942
Executions of Kyiv 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 …