Post: #26

Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer, together in Spandau.





Several photos of Hess from the 1980s:






Hess's "Summerhouse" on the prison grounds. He hanged himself with an electrical cable, inside this room.






Electrical cable used to hang himself




Ambulance hauling his corpse away.



He was originally buried in this grave, but so many neo-Nazis had turned the grave site into a shrine, including attempts to excavate his corpse, that the family had his remains removed and cremated.

Post: #27

Hitler's brother, Alois, moved to the United States during the 1930s, eventually living on Long Island.

Alois M. Hitler, Jr.




He had a son, William Patrick Hitler, who served in the US Navy during WWII.






The Hitler family home in Patchogue on Long Island.




William Hitler had four sons - Alexander, Louis, Howard, and Brian. Howard died in a car wreck in 1989. He had no children. The remaining three brothers have agreed to never have children so that the Hitler blood line will end.


Alexander Hitler's high school yearbook photo:




Starting top left, going clockwise: Alexander, Brian, Lewis, and Howard Hitler.

Post: #28

Zoot Suit Mexican Americans in LA late 1930s and 1940s
















Many Americans forget about the early Chicano Mexican American movement that happened between both World Wars. Faced with prejudice on the streets and discrimination in the workplace and taught that they were second class citizens, many Mexican American young men in Los Angeles rebelled against society. Some dropped out of school, and others refused to join the military, and many banded together on the street. The racism at the time motivated many MA young men to join together in a distinctive street look, a look to refuse to blend in (the Zoot suit) and it made White America uncomfortable.


One of the first major race riots came in 1943 in LA between white sailors and Hispanic youth which came to be known as the Zoot Suit Riots. Many of the sailors came from middle America stationed in LA getting ready to go off to war and would get jealous of the Zoot Suiters attracting the white women in bars all over LA. Many sailors strolled the streets of LA trying to attack anyone with a Zoot Suit causing riots all over the city.

Post: #29

Soccer (football) photos:

West Germany equalizes in the dying minutes of the 1966 World Cup finals.



Italy: World Cup Winners 1934



Pele 1958



Goalscorer Joe Gaetjens is carried off the field after USA defeats England 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup. The United States is undefeated against England in World Cup play



Tom Finney (far left) and Bill Shankly (bottom center) with Preston North End prior to a game against Aston Villa



Shankly and Kevin Keegan in the (you guessed it...) 1970's



"Blackpool goalkeeper Gordon West is rendered agog by his own miraculous save during a match against Arsenal at Highbury, 1961. This photo (taken by Ron Bell) won first prize in the ‘Sports Pictures in the British Press, Pictures of the Year Competition’ in the same year."



Bolivia's Uniforms for the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay (Not a good look...)



Photo from North Korea's Defeat of Italy at Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough in 1966 World Cup:

Post: #30

www.shorpy.com is a great resource for historical photos.

Post: #31

An unidentified man who stood in front of a column of tanks on June 5, 1989, the morning after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 by force, commonly known as Tank Man.



The Falling Man - self explanatory.


Commies raising a Soviet flag over the Reichstag (Yevgeny Khaldei)


Geoff Hurst hits the crossbar and line in the 1966 World Cup Final against West Germany The goal was allowed but to this day we still don't know whether it really crossed the line or not. England ended up winning with 4-2.

Post: #32

Good stuff - keep em coming.

Post: #33

It's all going to be Nazis, isn't it?

Post: #34

Muhammed Ali.


Vietnam.


The Fall of the Berlin Wall.


A smiling soldier. Simple as that.


A ghost town near Fukushima.


9/11.



Hurricane Katrica.

Post: #35

This is the Reichserntedankfest (Thanksgiving Celebration of the Reich) of 1934 in Buckeberg. That year, 700,000 people participated.

Even those who did not support Nazis were totally blown away and emotionally shaken. They had never experienced anything even remotely like this, there was no rock concerts back then. It created spiritual feeling of sublime and unity among people who were participating.

When they were marching back to their tents in the night, they could still see the huge spotlights piercing the sky in the Buckeberg. They were totally pumped up and fell that things are really going to change better.



For decades, rumors circulated in Russia that Joseph Stalin had a “twin” who replaced him during certain situations. Decades after Stalin’s death, the decoy finally decided to talk. Felix Dadaev, a former dancer and juggler, had been ordered to work to the Kremlin as Stalin’s body double.

For more than half a century, Dadaev remained silent, fearing a death sentence should he dare to open his mouth. But in 2008, at the age of 88, and with the apparent approval of the Putin regime, he finally came forward to write his autobiography. It explains that he was one of four men employed to impersonate the supreme leader, taking his place in motorcades, at rallies, on newsreel footage etc.


Body of frozen Soviet soldier propped up by Finnish fighters to intimidate Soviet troops, 1939
Finnish defenders sometimes took fallen, frozen Russian soldiers and posed them upright as psychological warfare.



Russian spy laughing through his execution in Finland, 1942
A Soviet spy laughs at his executioner in a picture taken in Rukajärvi, in East Karelia, in November 1942.
It’s a pretty amazing picture. To capture the last few moments of life. He knows he will die in a few seconds, in a forest in the snow. And there he will bleed out and be forgotten. His life, his experience, has come to an end. What else could he do but smile? That smile was his final Defiance. Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.




Osama Bin Laden as a teenager (the second from the right in a green shirt and blue pants) on vacation in Sweden with his family


Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937


Fidel Castro and Malcolm X, 1960

Post: #36

Idi Amin forces British businessmen to carry him like royalty; an ironic, literal twist to "The White Man's Burden".



Idi Amin forces British businessmen to this time, kneel before him.









The 1992 Olympic Dream Team in Barcelona, Spain.




Meanwhile back home in 1992, California National Guard soldiers patrol the streets of Los Angeles during the LA riots.

Post: #37

Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937



Woman who accused Tupac of rape. The night it happened.


A British soldier pays his respects at the grave of a colleague near Cape Helles, where the Gallipoli landings took place in 1915.


Wintry scene on the Western Front a young soldier surrounded by icicles, France.


A Japanese soldier attempts in vain to rouse his dead comrade.


A strongman in the French Army lifting a cannon overhead along with three of his comrades astride it, 1917.



Women hauling coal possibly for a gas company.


German troops wearing gas masks and throwing hand grenades, 23 Apr 1916.

Post: #38

The assassination of Bobby Kennedy.


Ronaldinho and Messi.


Ronaldo and Messi.


Nagasaki 20 minutes after the atomic bomb.


A wedding in Chernobyl.


Russian soldier plays an abandoned piano in Chechnya war (1994).


A mock-up of Hitler's planned supertank. Weighing over 1000 tons, it would have been able to fire missiles from Germany to London or New York. 39 metres in length.



A photo of another planned Nazi superweapon - the "sound cannon", its purpose being to try and disorient enemies using high frequency sounds within a 70 metre range. It proved to be ineffective and was scrapped.

Post: #39

Two Marines share foxhole with orphan on Okinawa.



I hate to be the "Actually..." guy, but Marines are insistent on calling those fighting holes. As they say...and by say, I mean pound into your brain with a sledgehammer...foxholes are for hiding. Let the Army do that, we dig fighting holes.

Quintus Curtius will understand.

Cool thread by the way, I have some to contribute myself, when I get some time.

Post: #40

Russian prime minister Dmitri Medvedev as a young man.


During the Bangladesh Liberation War, a Pakistani soldier checks whether this man is circumcised to verify he is Muslim. (Hindus are not circumcised).


A Beetles concert, about a year before they became famous.


Lunch room for Disney workers.


Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer.


Loading the first 5MB hard drive onto a plane in 1956.


A Singapore opium den.


Rooftop race track at the Fiat factory in Turin.


Princeton students after a snowball fight.

Post: #41

The election this year reminded me of this picture:



Here is the great Robert E Lee with two of his assistants:



Here is Theodore Roosevelt: