30 Archival Photos That Will Surely Amaze You
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By Pictolic https://mail.pictolic.com/article/30-archival-photos-that-will-surely-amaze-you.htmlHistory sometimes surprises with its absurdity and cruelty - you read and think that it is simply unthinkable. And there are things that are impossible to believe until you see them: Gestapo officer Adolf Eichmann smiling while his sentence was being read out. Or the Indian student who tied his hair to the wall so that his head would not hang over the table and he would not fall asleep!
1. 1926. Berlin. People brought their dogs to be put to sleep because they could not afford the increased pet tax.
2. Under the supervision of Turkish army officers, Kurdish children write on the board, “How happy is he who calls himself a Turk.”
3. 1953. Nuclear bomb test dummies. Las Vegas.
4. 1995. Denomination in Poland. One new zloty instead of 10,000 old ones.
5. 1943. A German motorcyclist shows what the Russian rasputitsa is like.
6. 1945. Berlin residents search for food in the ruins.
7. 1992. Residents of Sarajevo prepare firewood for the winter.
8. 1917 Jerusalem.
9. 1961. Adolf Eichmann smiles as his sentence is read out, accusing him of crimes against humanity.
10. 1945. Captured Germans are forced to watch newsreels from concentration camps.
11. 1986. Viewers see the Challenger disaster.
12. 1940. Christmas on the London Underground.
13. 1921. Georgian anarchists oppose the Red Army.
14. 1914. British soldiers sleep after landing in France.
15. 1922. Women thank representatives of the American Relief Administration. Vasilyevka village, Samara province.
16. 1945. Mass suicide in Vienna before the arrival of the Red Army.
17. 1900. An Indian student prepares for exams. To stay awake, he ties his hair to the wall.
18. 1943. Soldiers of the 13th SS Mountain Division "Handjar" (1st Croatian) perform namaz. The division was recruited from Bosnian Muslim volunteers.
19. 1916. Russian submarines "Bars" and "Wolf".
20. King George's Hunt in India.
21. Khrushchev and Castro.
22. 1922. Girls paint glowing numbers on dials with radioactive paints (Radium Girls). Many of them will later die of cancer.
23. 1960. The Los Angeles Police Department catches a robber who killed an elderly woman for her wallet.
24. 1938. A kindergarten teacher, called to testify in court, is sentenced to five days in jail for contempt of court for wearing pants to testify. Los Angeles.
25. 1949. Women wash clothes in Central Park during a water shortage. New York.
26. 1940. Germany. Schoolgirls during a lesson on racial purity.
27. 1945. Germany. A child tries to sell his father's Iron Cross.
28. 1918. One of the first monuments of the Soviet Republic is a concrete monument to Robespierre. It will stand for three days. According to one version, it was blown up by criminals, according to another, it fell apart due to the poor quality of the concrete.
29. 1935. Stormtroopers pose with violators of the racial purity law. On the woman's neck is a poster: "I am a big pig and I only give it to Jews!" On the man's neck is a poster: "I am a Jew who just invited a German girl to my room."
30. 1936. Motor chariot racing.
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