"Great Historic Photographs" Topic

Max Schreck between scenes

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President Richard Nixon trying to figure out how to use chopsticks while visiting in China. 1972.

Queen Elizabeth II firing a British L85 battle rifle. Surrey, England,1993.

Recording an episode of "Gang Busters", true crime radio show, New York, 1930's

Kermit and Miss Piggy visit The Empire Strikes Back

If I were that dog, I would be saying, "I keel you!" Humans have a lot to answer for, making "wolves" look like that….

I always wondered how that worked

A lone man refusing to do the "Sieg Heil" salute at the launching of the Horst Wessel in Nazi Germany, 1936

Himmler with his daughter, 1938

Stahlhelm, the stages of the helmet-making process of Stahlhelms for the Imperial German Army, 1916
of Stahlhelms for the Imperial German Army, 1916

German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945

Here are some colorized Daguerrotypes:

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Incredible stuff! Thanks for posting.

photo of James Dean taken on the day He died

Polesti

Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi using mattresses as extra defense
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Yang Kyounjong, a Korean, being captured by US troops in Normandy. He was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army, got captured, got conscripted into the Red Army, got captured in Ukraine, then got conscripted into the Wehrmacht, then fought the Allies 'till he was captured

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After he was released at the end of the war, he settled in Illinois where he lived until his death in 1992.

it's shocking how the media has wrote this out of history

Damn Nazis

View of an undamaged Polish city from the cockpit of a German medium bomber aircraft, likely a Heinkel He 111 P, in 1939.

A huge scrap heap where German planes, brought down over Great Britain, were dumped, photographed on August 27, 1940. The large number of Nazi planes downed during raids on Britain made a substantial contribution to the national scrap metal salvage campaign.

A wave breaks over the main deck of the fleet oiler USS Neosho, engulfing the hose crew, as she refuels USS Yorktown in early May 1942, shortly before the Battle of Coral Sea in the South Pacific. The Neosho was lost in that battle.

A U.S. soldier stands in the middle of rubble in the Monument of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig after they attacked the city on April 18, 1945. The huge monument commemorating the defeat of Napoleon in 1813 was one of the last strongholds in the city to surrender. One hundred and fifty SS fanatics with ammunition and foodstuffs stored in the structure to last three months dug themselves in and were determined to hold out as long as their supplies. American First Army artillery eventually blasted the SS troops into surrender.

Not a single soldier from this Irish Guards machine-gun team, pictured in 1914, survived the horrific slaughter on the battlefield

Reichs Party Congress in Nuremberg Germany

Captured German boy soldier enjoys a cup of coffee aboard a U.S. Coast Guard LCI, Normandy coast, 1944

A Soviet child soldier with machine gun in Vienna in 1945.

Schwerer Gustav

Cretan partisans

more evidence of time travel