Major Richard Winters, Captain Lewis Nixon, and other officers of Easy Company (portrayed in HBO’s Band of Brothers) celebrate V-E day in Hitler’s private residence, Berchtesgaden, in the Bavarian Alps. May 8, 1945

Marilyn Monroe performing for the thousands of allied troops in Korea, February 11th, 1954

80 years ago Jesse Owens of the USA refuted Adolf Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy by breaking the world record in the 200-meter race in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany

The Opening Ceremony of the first Modern Olympics in Athens, Greece. – 6th April, 1896

Gadget, the first atomic bomb

A boy is forced by SS members to view his murdered family and pose for a photograph before being murdered in Zboriv, Ukraine, 1941

19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and he then went onto win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent.

President Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan in a general’s tent during the Battle of Antietam, 1862

The four condemned Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirators: David Herold, Lewis Powell, Mary Surratt and George Atzerodt (from left to right).

Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators

Newly liberated female inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp are dusted with DDT powder to kill lice which spreads typhus. May, 1945.

Sammy Davis Jr and Martin Luther King Jr backstage at New York’s Majestic Theatre, 1965

Roald Dahl in the garden shed where he wrote many of his books, including Charlie and the Chocolate factory. 1979. Great Missenden, Bucks.

“This was where our house was, the body may be that of my mother.” Chieko Ryu – Nagasaki, Japan 1945

A Soviet pilot showing the photo of his girlfriend, 1944

Inside the FBI’s Colossal Fingerprint Factory 1943

Benito Mussolini (second on the left) hanging from a lamppost in Piazzale Loreto, Milan along with other fascists, 29 April, 1945

Kennedy Space Flight Center control room for Apollo 11 16 July 1969

Adolf Hitler greets Paul von Hindenburg at the opening of the new Reichstag in Potsdam, Germany, 21 March 1933. This is a very famous photograph and very much calculated Nazi propaganda. Hitler had been chancellor for all of a month and half when this picture was taken, and Hindenburg had been very reluctant to appoint Hitler chancellor, and only did so after three separate parliamentary elections failed to yield a majority government. It was very important for Hitler, whose government very much appeared weak, tenuous, illegitimate, and divided to have some symbol of unity in the national government. More importantly for Hitler’s ambitions, he needed a symbol of continuity between the old imperial regime and the Nazi regime. This photo became that symbol.