20 Fascinating Photos Collected From History

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U.S. military authorities prepare to hang Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, 74, at Landsberg, Germany, on May 28, 1946. He used 1200 Dachau prisoner’s for a malaria experiment.

Serial killer John Wayne Gacy poses with First Lady Roslynn Carter. This picture would become an embarrassment for the Secret Service as the pin Gacy is wearing indicates security clearance. 1978

Marshland in front of the Lincoln Memorial, near the Potomac River, in 1917. Work is underway to turn this site into the 2,000-foot-long reflecting pool.

Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, built in 1874

Monopoly board created by POWs held captive in the Philippines by the Japanese during WWII

Arthritis-ridden Renoir painting flowers at his garden, circa 1910’s

Due to his arthritis, he had his fingers tied with rubber bands in order to hold his brushes

Vietnam War 1965

Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in March 1965. The troops were moving to attack a Viet Cong camp northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border.

Trench Warfare. Photo taken by an official British photographer during WWI, 1917

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Alcatraz Prison Menu from 1946

Carving George Washington into Mount Rushmore – 1932

Jesse Owens crosses the finish line in Berlin to win the 100-meter sprint August 3 1936

One of four events in which Owens won gold medals at the 1936 Olympics, while Nazi propaganda was using the Games of that year to promote concepts of “Aryan racial superiority”

Salvador Dalí on a carriage drawn by his goat, 1953.

Newly liberated inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp chase down and beat a former kapo (a prisoner assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor in the camp). Kapos were picked for their brutality towards fellow prisoners and received additional privileges, 16 April 1945.

Typical grocery store queue in Vilnius (the capital of current Lithuania), 1990, USSR consumer goods shortage

Due USSR economical problems, at the end of 80’s and begining of the 90’s, people had to spend hours in queues for buying simple stuff like bread, butter, milk, eggs etc.