US Marines taking a coffee break after a brutal WWII battle (1940s)

Two Japanese officers who held a contest to kill 100 people using a sword (Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, 1930s). The contest to kill 100 people using a sword was a contest between Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, two Japanese Army officers, which took place during the Japanese invasion of China. The goal of the contest was to see who could kill 100 people the fastest while using a sword. The two officers were later executed on war crime charges for their involvement.

This photo was taken by a paramedic in 2015 outside of a SoCal hospital. It depicts an ER doctor who stepped outside to cry after losing a 19-year-old patient. Minutes later, the doctor walked back in with his head held high ready to continue working

Wedding rings that were removed from holocaust victims before they were executed

“A watch stopped at 08:15 AM found in Hiroshima”

The lobby of the North Tower of the WTC after the South Tower’s collapse

Inside one of the Twin Towers during 9/11 (below the impact floors), taken during evacuation

Wehrmacht soldiers testing the strength of the gallows before an execution

Istvan Reiner, aged 4, smiles for a studio portrait, shortly before being murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.

This 1959 propaganda photo depicts Chinese children standing atop what appears to be an abundant field of wheat. But in reality, they stood on a bench surrounded by a field of transplanted stalks to hide the fact much of the country was under famine.

Primary 1 class’s at Dunblane Primary School. On March 13th 1996, a gunman entered the school and committed the first and only school shooting in uk history. He murdered 16 of the children in this photo, as well as the teacher. Public outrage saw handguns banned

Nazi war criminal Werner Braune, moments before his execution for crimes against humanity (1951)

Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe watches a successful launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on Oct. 30, 1985, before being selected to join a later mission in January 1986, which would ultimately end in disaster.

An American man punching a Vietnamese man trying to board one of the last helicopters to leave Saigon.

The girls of the Manson Family