Historic Photos / Set # 108

Please Note: The art of photography has the ability to expose brutality and provide evidence of the utter failure of humanity.  Some Images may be disturbing...

Charlie Chaplin attends the premiere of his newest film City Lights in Los Angeles, accompanied by Albert Einstein, and his wife, Elsa Einstein. February 2, 1931.

The Polish 1st Infantry Division heads towards the front, Summer 1943.

President and Mrs. Johnson and Vice President Agnew watch Apollo 11 lift off at Cape Canaveral, 1969.

The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp: women inmates collect their bread ration from one of the five camp cookhouses / 1945.

Automotive designer Alex Tremulis walking alongside his Tucker 48 Sedan,1948.

A British surgeon at work in the open air at a dressing station near Le Quesnel, 11th August 1918, during the Battle of Amiens.

An Irish teenager yells at British soldiers during unrest in Northern Ireland / Circa 1985.

Czech woman yelling “Ivan go home!” to an occupying soldier sitting on a tank in the streets of Prague - Aug 26, 1968.

German commercial airship GRAF ZEPPLIN in an airship hangar during the 1920s or 30s. Location unknown.

A young Angela Merkel and her first husband, Ulrich Merkel / 1975.

Jewish soldiers of the German Army celebrating Hanukkah during WWI, 1916.

German refugees crowding the market square at Jüchen, Germany, a town captured by the US Army at the end of the Second World War, 3rd March 1945.

A Polish Jewish boy lifts the head of a deceased young man who collapsed from starvation and died along the tram lines in the Warsaw Ghetto. Poland, 1942.

Republic of Korea MASH unit provide medical assistance to Vietnamese villagers / 1968.

English women protesting their governments stance on refusing to allow them to serve in WWI in 1915 after news had spread that other countries including Italy and Russia had already allowed women to serve in the war effort / 1915.

Young Angela Merkel having a Schnaps with fishermen on the island of Rügen during her first MP campaign in summer of 1990.

A Navy Corpsman lifts the head of a wounded Marine to give him a sip of water from his canteen as other soldiers relax during a pause in fighting on Guam Island, in the Marianas, in August of 1944.

People at entrance of a public shelter watch enemy planes during a daytime raid in London during The Blitz of World War II in 1940.

A 25 year old Joseph Stalin stands (top center) with other convicts in Kutai, Georgia of the Russian Empire 1903.

The torpedoed Japanese destroyer Yamakaze, as seen through the periscope of an American submarine, USS Nautilus, in June 1942.

Members of the British Ambulance Corps arrive after a V2 rocket strike on London, 1945.

Campbell-Railton Blue Bird, built by Sir Malcolm Campbell. It is powered by a 37 liter supercharged Rolls-Royce R V12 capable of producing about 2,800 horses. On Sept. 3, 1935 on the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah, he became the first person to reach 300mph behind the wheel of this automobile.

A trainload of British Expeditionary Force soldiers arrives back in London after being rescued from Dunkirk, June 1940.

To spread political views, soldiers release balloons holding leaflets in Taiwan, January 1969.

School being held in a converted train car, Ontario, Canada, 1932.

American aircraft fly over USS Missouri after the surrender 1945.

Hiroshima Victim’s Shadow Burned Into Wall By The Blast. August 6th, 1945.

Additional References____________________________________

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