Interesting stuff from history's vault.
History can offer us a lot of
lessons - some of them poignant and wise, others a grim reminder of the darker chapters of our collective existence. It's up to us to actually learn from these lessons, because history repeats.
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June 22th, 1941 – Citizens of Moscow listen to a historic radio announcement, saying that German forces invaded at 4 AM that morning and that the war started. 30% of male population will perish in the next 4 years (including 90% of men born in 1923)
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Whitechapel slum in 1888, the year Jack The Ripper struck
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Jack The Ripper’s ‘From Hell’ letter
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The McDonald brothers in front of the not yet opened first McDonald’s, November 1948, San Bernadino, CA
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Nurses in their bomb trenches between hospital wards. France 1918
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A young Ho Chi Minh speaking to the French Communist Party in Paris in 1920
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Children of the Belgian Congo circa 1900. If they did not come back with enough rubber for the day, their hands would be chopped off.
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Hans-Georg Henke, a 16 year old German soldier, after a long battle he was captured by the American’s and taken as a POW. He burst into tears as a combination of shell shock and fear
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A French women welcomes an American soldier two days after liberation. Strasbourg, France, 22 November 1944
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World War 2 Death Notice
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Men from the U.S coast guard watches as one of their depth charges goes off on the german submarine U-175 in the Atlantic in 1943.
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At the 50th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, Union (left) and Confederate (right) veterans shake hands at a reunion, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1913
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Tsar Nicholas II and his cousin, King George V, in 1904 when Nicholas was on a state visit to England
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Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family, murdered by Bolsheviks 100 years ago
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French troops with war-torn flag, 1917
