A man holding his daily ration of food (125 grams of bread, of which 50–60% consisted of sawdust) during the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944
More civilians died of starvation, cold and disease in the first few months of the siege than all the US Military deaths in all theaters of the war.
Total US military deaths from all causes: 407,000
Total number of dead from the beginning of the siege, September ’41, to December ’41: 780,000, almost entirely civilian deaths.
And the siege lasted 900 days. Out of a population of around 3.5 million civilians, 400,000 survived in the city.
President Harry Truman shakes hands with Pablo Picasso. Vallauris, France, 1958
Abraham Lincoln’s beloved mutt Fido – the first Presidential dog to be photographed, and the reason Fido (Latin for “to trust”) became such a popular dog’s name (1861)
British soldier on a pony in zebra camouflage. East Africa WWI (1915)
Albert Einstein and his daughter become citizens of the United States rather than return to Germany under Hitler. October 1, 1940
Adolf Eichmann walks around the yard of his cell, Israel, April 1961
A German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer (general/lieutenant general) Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. In 1960, he was captured in Argentina by Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Following a widely publicised trial in Israel, he was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962.
Photo of sentencing from the Nuremburg trials. The name of the offender and their punishment next to them, Hess is hidden because Goering was standing up, he received life imprisonment.
“All I Want For Christmas Is A Clean White School” – Segregationists protest the attendance of 6-year-old Ruby Bridges outside William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, 1960
Czeslawa Kwoka, age 14, Auschwitz. December 1942
Men of Easy Company (portrayed in HBO’s Band of Brothers) celebrate V-E day in Hitler’s private residence, May 8, 1945
“War brings out the worst and the best in people. Wars do not make men great, but they do bring out the greatness in good men. War is romantic only to those who are far away from the sounds and turmoil of battle. For those of us who served in Easy Company, and for those who served their country in other theaters, we came back as better men and women as a result of being in combat, and most would do it again if called upon. But each of us hoped that if we had learned anything from the experience it is that war is unreal, and we earnestly hoped that it would never happen again.” – Dick Winters
December 1948, Talladega, AL., Klansmen and Santa Claus presented a radio to Jack Riddle, a 107 year old Negro and his wife, Josey, 86, so they could have their wish, to “hear the preachers.” Grand Dragon Samuel Green explained that this demonstrated the true heart of a Klansman.
Bonnie and Clyde’s car after they were killed, 1934
Hippie girl in Washington Square Park, 1968
The Priscilla Nuclear Test detonation during Operation Plumbbob. A series of nuclear tests conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957
Rush Medical College lecture auditorium, 1900, Chicago
Actress Jean Harlow poses with boxer Primo Carnera, 1933
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