Extreme historical photographs

post rare, lesser known photographs that are extremely emotional, exciting or whatever to look at. please no extreme gore and so on, thanks. pic related is a good example.

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Wanted to post the "look mom I killed a kraut" WW1 pic with the guy holding a skull by its pickelhaube, but I can't find it

Nevermind, found it

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this one is pretty extreme

i also really like this one

It would be useful to provide background information on each photograph.

shit says Katyn Massacre in google search but all internet sources tell they're german officers

true, new rule from now on. try image searching on google for the previous ones.

The badges on their caps, the models of their guns and their German unufirns would indicate that they're Germans.

these are partisans being executed on the eastern front.

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Isn't it wierd how in the west, partisans were put in jail and shot at dawn against a wall or post by firing squads with rifles, yet all these photos apparently showing the execution of partisans in the east have them kneeling in front of mass graves into which they'll fall after being shot at close range with handguns.

Really makes you think...

all right searched some more and sources contradict each other. however, im certain those are germans executing someone.

whats the problem here? the eastern front was vastly different.

I remember this thread
It had nice pics

yuki.la/his/3513325

Here is Momčilo Gavrić, 8 year old Serbian soldier

Wounded German officer found by British sentry in the Egyptian desert.

The departure of the 4th Marine Regiment from Shanghai on the eve of war, November 28th 1941.

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The Japanese military governor of Shanghai saying goodbye to the commander of the regiment, probably the last amicable peaceful conversation between an American and Japanese officer for 4 years.

where is that?

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Almost all those poor bastards in the 4th Marine Regiment would end be dead in 6 months.

>promoted to rank of Corporal at age 8
>wounded
>showed his unit the location of the AH soldiers who killed his entire family
>survived the war
absolutely based

whoops, my bad. I thought the thread was "extremely RARE historical photographs". My apologies.

Men on Bataan listening to the Voice Of Freedom announcing their surrender.

>Lived through the balkan wars
>Lived through WW1
>Lived through WW2
>Lived through the Cold War
>Saw the collapse of the USSR
This kid has seen so much fucking shit

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context? why is this shit so terrifying?

>sees this amount of wewuzery.
So this is the power of German autism.

Women being attacked during the Lviv Pogrom. Unless they were lucky they would be rounded up and shoot soon after.

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holy shit. This takes the cake.

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Unit 731

Something to do with Soviet space program? Story?

da rocket flew in da eye of da gods! Da Gods were angy that umans betrayed the wishes of da sky Gods and smited da ruski with a mighty explosion!

npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage

What do you get out of making shit posts like this?

Not sure that Gagarin would have a problem getting a meeting with Brezhnev. He had a lot of claut as a national hero. Also 67 is not 37, Brezhnev was by all acounts simple minded jovial fellow who was appointed specifically because of his mild unStalin like nature.

I mean, those are statues of actual German knights and kings, but it's still rather autistic.

Australian dead lining the parapet of a trench at Lone Pine. The officer looking at them is Leslie Morshead who went from a lieutenant in WW1 to a lieutenant-general in WW2.

German trenches destroyed by the artillery bombardment at the Battle of Messines, 1917.

Legs just fucking gone.

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Machine gun crews often weren't allowed to surrender.

British pilots early in the war weren't issued with parachutes to encourage them to try and save their damaged planes rather than bailing out.

Slavs fit differently into nazi racial theory and they were more dangerous on the eastern front since they were more numerous and there was a huge war being still fought nearby

There's conspiracies about Gagarin death, with one claiming that he was "removed" by government because he started drinking a lot, gained weight, violated traffic in his sport car and overall didn't look like a hero of Soviet Union anymore

HItler in shorts always makes me giddy.

Like any of the other heroes of the soviet union acted the part irl. It was at a time when Brezhnevs daughter was whoring around Moscow like crazy. No reason to kill for that. Thats why you control the media in the first place.

that's from a movie

They look disgusted and disgraced. Probably had to witness the nazionalist socialist peasants fisting each others on the altar.

Are you sure it isn't Khatyn massacre?

The Germans applied the term "partisan" very loosely in the East. It could simply mean someone who happened to be in the area when a partisan attack occurred.

which movie? i wanna see it.

I don't remember the name of it, but it was about zombies

Those quotes are making me hate G*rms.

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Vladimir Komarov
I'm pretty sure some audio from the crash is online if you are morbidly curious

Wow.

This shits like from a horror movie

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turbo autist

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Hans Quixote?

These might be Slovenian domobrans executing a partisan. Or some other German induced atrocity

Let me guess: jasenovac?

Have you ever met a middle aged German? They're literally all autists.

That should fix it

Wow why are some of the captions in Danish (maybe Norwegian)?

All these WW1 pics of massacred soldiers make me especially sad, i’m surprised more militaries didn’t mutiny early with the way their generals were sending them into the meat grinder, endlessly throwing away their lives in useless attacks

>Isn’t it weird Germans didn’t want to surrender on the Eastern front? In the West they were well treated as prisoners.

>Really makes you think mmh...

Man the German jew hate truly was full on autistic obsession, holy shit no wonder they couldn't win the stupid goddamn war. Like they come into a town to find out that the NKVD fucking massacred and tortured a few thousand prisoners in the town prison and they do what? Use the massacre as a way to gain support among the populus to get more loyal soldiers and factory workers and whatnot? No, they just go and fucking kill da joos, because obviooously they're somehow at fault for those commie nigger killing people, holy shit this amount of autism is actually fucking triggering me. pic related me irl rn

Man what the hell, surely the cost of a single bullet is low enough to spare the men from having to witness a motherfucking head getting chopped off.

story

gory gory what a hell of a way to die?

that's fascism for you

I've also seen sources claiming this was the remains of Gagarin after his plane crash.

Heer soldier executing a man

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Did they flay this guy alive? For what fucking purpose?

these ones are really nice

fascism is one hell of a drug

>Not giving up yet eh? Got another five miles to crawl mate.

I think they were doing edgy medical experiments, like pain threshold and that infamous arm-freezing one

Common when looking up WW2 photos
>Two museums has the same picture
>Both claim it's in their respective country and in a said battle cause the internet didn't exist when they put up the exhibition
or worse
>some old fart with a history blog who hordes pictures and gives his own interpretation of what's happening in the picture with his knowlage of the war and stamps it with his blog URL on the picture for keeps.
>101 facts

not when you need to kill a thousand.

Is that Bogdatemple in france that got wrongly bombed by the allies?