Photos from the Past

[BobbyBooshay]

The speech where Adolf Hitler declared war on the USA, 1941

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During World War II there were many different forms of propaganda to support the war effort in Japan. Sometimes the Japanese used sexual images in order to influence Allied soldiers to pick up surrender leaflets. The leaflet above depicts a bare-breasted female in an inviting pose. The bearer of the present ticket is considered as “willing to surrender to the Japanese army”. The Japanese army will charge itself with ensuring his life in condition that he shows this ticket to Japanese soldiers, with a white flag or raised arms, carrying his rifle stock upwards.

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(gif worthy lol)

A soldier faints from the heat at a crucial moment during the Trooping the Colour to mark Queen Elizabeth’s birthday in 1970.

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NASA scientists with their board of calculations, 1961.

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David Rothman was in his work clothes and Albert Einstein was dressed for the beach when they posed on this rock at Horseshoe Cove in Nassau Point in the summer of 1939.

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Gundrun with her father, Heinrich Himmler, 1938

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

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South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, shoots Vietcong officer Nguyen Van Lem, also known as Bay Lop, on a Saigon street on Feb. 1, 1968.

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Albert Einstein’s matriculation certificate, aged 17, 1896. It’s a myth that Einstein was bad at math

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Malcolm X kidding around with Muhammad Ali, New York, 1963

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American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell confronting Martin Luther King Jr., 1965

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Force confrontation: German POW react to footage of concentration camps, 1945

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A British blacksmith removing the leg irons off a slave, 1907

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On April 12, 1980, Samuel Doe led a military coup, killing President William R. Tolbert, Jr., in the Executive Mansion. Twenty-six of Tolbert’s supporters were also killed in the fighting. Shortly after the coup, government ministers were walked publicly around Monrovia in the nude and then summarily executed by a firing squad on the beach.

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Last public execution by guillotine, France, 1939

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Two black American soldiers with special artillery ammo for Hitler, Easter Sunday, 1945. Technical Sergeant William E. Thomas and Private First Class Joseph Jackson prepared a gift of special “Easter Eggs” for Adolph Hitler and the German Army. Scrawling such messages on artillery shells in World War II was one way in which artillery soldiers could humorously express their dislike of the enemy.

The sad part of course is that they were fighting for a country that was discriminating against them. Now, while the USA didn’t treat African-Americans nearly as badly as Hitler treated Jews, these young men were willing to die for their country, even though a huge chunk of their country was completely built against them. It’s a bit ironic that USA defeated Hitler with a segregated army.

 

[Back4The1stTime]

It was crazy how a lot of cacs watched extinctions as a form of entertainment

 

[Knuckles Red]

"Now, while the USA didn’t treat African-Americans nearly as badly as Hitler treated Jews"