Humans have a long and storied history on this planet we call Earth. Sure, there is a long list of incredible achievements, amazing discoveries, the advancement of science and technology, and a plethora of many other accolades. On the flipside, mankind is responsible for some truly horrific atrocities and tragedies. Check out these photos and stories collected from the darker side of life.
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Russian Soldier looks into trench where he thought the Ukrainian filming was hiding.He would be shot dead within a second of this still frame
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12205 Imperial Ave., Cleveland, OH. Google Street View image from September 2009. At the time this photo was taken, the bodies of eleven murder victims were inside the house and buried in the yard.
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Children going to a 12-hour night shift, 2023
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Smallpox victim July 1939. One of the most brutal diseases that humanity had to face, today 100% erradicated.
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Surveillance image from a car wash showing 11yo Carlie Brucia, who was walking home from a friend’s house, at the moment Joseph Smith simply grabbed her by the arm and led her away. Four days later Carlie’s body was found in a church parking lot. Smith was sentenced to death for her murder.
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Ukrainian civilians search for their family and friends among the dead, massacred when the Germans and Romanians evacuated Kerch in the Crimea on December 30, 1941.The Germans had first occupied Kerch as they drove on Sevastopol in November 1941. A landing by Marines attached the Soviet 51st Army drove the Germans out. The Marines found thousands of dead civilians, deprived of food and terrorized by the Gestapo during the occupation.
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Teen dies after being pulled into wood chipper
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A child’s room in a crack house
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A terrified prisoner inside the Tuol Sleng prison where nearly 20,000 people were locked up and tortured by the Khmer Rouge. Only seven survived the horror.
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SS killings in Zboriv, 1941. A teenage boy is brought to view his dead family before being shot himself.The surviving teenage son of this murdered family is brought up to the murder site. He was then murdered by a shot to the neck by the German officer standing behind him.
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Man shot and killed in a drive by shooting. He tweeted this 5 minutes before he was shot.
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On 11 May 1945, the Sudeten German civilians who inhabited Volary (present-day Czech Republic), are forced by US troops to walk past bodies of 30 Jewish women, who were starved to death by German SS troops in a 300 mile death march
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An excerpt from the book “Klaus Barbie: The Butcher of Lyons” describing the burning of bodies after a massacre carried out by the Gestapo
