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Bébé à vendre en France dans les années 40
Unwanted babies for sale in France in the 1940’s
In the 1870s the US Govt paid to kill Bison, and this was the end result. A Pile of Bison skulls .
After the end of WW 2 some German PoWs were forced to watch the video footage from concentration camps .
A concentration camp survivor hits the head of a Nazi supporter with her handbag, during a rally.
Untouched for 3,245 years, the unbroken seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb, 1922.
A pride Zulu tribe member, and now under British invasion, seen here a tribesman in his full atire pulling the wife of the British inavder around in a cart. Durban, South Africa, 1930s
Women having a drink when the prohibition ended in the US.
The Kroll Opera House in Berlin on April 28, 1939.
Hitler makes keynote address answering Roosevelt’s appeal to avoid war.
Roosevelt asked for Hitler to give assurances that he would not invade a number of specific countries, mostly British possessions and European neighbors, most of which became involved in the war anyway.
A starving child on the brink of survival and a vulture waiting, in Africa.
The last public execution in US 1936
When a whole nation got sold by one man's ideas. Germany Nazi rally in 1937
1972 Munich Olympic Massacre
1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria, in southern West Germany, when 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed
Lithuania, a group of protesters trying to stop a tank from crushing a fellow protester 1991.
The people of London had no idea what was waiting for them, while a large crowd celebrated Great Britain’s declaration of war on Germany in Trafalgar Square, London, 1914.
Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm “Schwerer Gustav” railway gun.
It was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat ever.
A newspaper boy with the paper that had the headlines of the Titanic drowned .
A 16 Year old Serbian before being executed by the SS in 1942.
Men building the San Francisco Bay Bridge in 1935
Hitler
Year 1935 a police man stops traffic to allow a mama cat to carry her kittens safely across the street.
This is the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS , Adolf Hitlers personal bodyguard regiment.
Boy named Michael Finder of East Germany is tossed by his father into a net held by firemen across the border in West Berlin. The apartments were in East Berlin while their windows opened into West Berlin; October 7, 1961
Soldiers standing beside unexploded German shells in WW 1 .
The result of a 140-kiloton nuclear test by the Soviet Union in 1965.
ps - FP Edit - So imgur loves history stuff !
And to the little errors, well thats what happens after a few beers and making a post !
Sorry grammar nazi's :)
And to all the more enlightened members pointing out to a few errors n deviations in references, thanks for the heads up. Internet makes you more smart !
( ... yup i read each n every comment :) )
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Ireallyneedhugs
I believe the photographer who saw the child starving later took his life.
WhiskersVonHoppyhopsthe3rd
The one where the man throws his child to safety in West Berlin almost made me cry. Idk why? A beautiful, and powerful picture nonetheless.
dizzyturtle
#8 Hitler mocked the United States during this speech by naming all the countries not to bomb in a sarcastic way.
ITryToOnlyRespondInGifs
He reminds me of someone....can't put my finger on it...
deaddingo
The Titanic Drowned?
LadyWidebottom
Yes, it was a real tragedy.
Pandaphant
"Unwanted babies for sale in France in the 1940’s" Hey, any interest in buying the Brooklyn Bridge? I'm the man who can sell it to you.
CantComeUpWithACreativeUsername
ya, I suspect the building behind them was for sale...
AmITheOnlyWomanOnImgur
#1 is a photo staged for a humorous postcard. Don't worry.
IDontKnowIfYouKnowThatIKnowThatYouDontKnowThatIDontCare
https://media.giphy.com/media/NWoJQ8peVE78A/giphy.gif glad to know because I got sad/mad after seeing that one
e105beta
I'm really glad to hear that. I have tears streaming down my face right now thinking about those poor babies.
CaptRandom1290
"Mein thigh shorts are so kampfy!" -Hitler, probably
Lizaderp
Springtime for Hitler
WhyIsTherePooUnderTheToiletSeat
Individualsocksinthewashingmachine
Imagine being one of those German soldiers, just fighting for your country. Then seeing what that ultimately meant.
DocVolt
It applies to all wars as well
Individualsocksinthewashingmachine
I don't really think it's quite the same in this case.
Thebuildingisonfireanditsnotmyfault
Not all wars feature a goddamned holocaust. Don't draw false moral equivalence.
Geometreeoflife
"I want a gold plated 1000 ton megalithic pyramid as a Tomb." "Yes sir! and what kind of lock on the door to keep out intruders?" ..."Rope."
DoublevBomb
#15 Oh wow, Avatar was even more direct in regards to the war & WMD thing that I'd first realized:
sthlmslang
#4 the woman was not a concentration camp survivor herself but the child of one.
IdRatherBeOnThePlaystation
SasquatchEsq
Pretty sure you made like 40% of this up...
OuroborosX
So now even history is fake news?
enigmaticraevyn
The titanic one looks too photoshopped.
JustRollWithIt
So much Hitler
OneFroToRuleThemAll
#19 ZES IS MEIN SPRING COLLECTION
YouCantSeeButImGivingYouTheFinger
...i can't get over how tiny his hands are in that pic...
uppydownymoodswingykindofgirl
well, that doesn't make Trump's precidency look any more promising
Lizaderp
Springtime for Hitler
afbujinkan
and Germany! Winter for Poland and France!
TheMysteriousBanana
What's a British Inavder?
tnn21
She wasn't an invader, but more likely a tourist. To this day in Durban they pull people around in rickshaws while wearing tribal costumes.
Barnboy2
We became a union in 1931, so its not just probable that its a tourist but could also be a local.
tnn21
Source: https://www.africanoverlandtours.com/overland-africa-blog/how-to-get-around-durban/
tnn21
Original image: http://www.natgeocreative.com/photography/226242
tnn21
"It’s an experience like no other; a unique tourist attraction operated by the Zulu population and incorporated into their culture."
TheRutabagaUprising
I stopped at the tank killing a civilian. My heart hurts. My brain hurts. Our world can be a disgusting place at times.
parpy
Like freeway protestors that get Darwin'd- however righteous the protest, I suggest giving wide berth to bonecrushing steel's path of travel
Dankie
My parents were there..
ReeseTheFeels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution
ToLazyToDoSomethingAboutTheShitHappeningHere
14 people died that day. Only for their faith for a better tomorrow. And this is only Lithuania. 3 million people. 1/2000+ of all of us.
SerMorgenstern
It can be beautiful too.
TheRutabagaUprising
Yes it definitely can. Due to text limits I wasnt able to say that. Still standing by what I said though from that picture.
HamsterHuey
http://m.gifmania.co.uk/Movies-Cinema-Animated-Gifs/Animated-Drama-Films/American-Beauty/American-Beauty-76716.gif
archangel9789
#3 top right guy looks far to interested to be trusted.
Lunareala
Whenever I see that pic, I like to zoom in to see how many look sad or shocked, and how many just look bored.
ErinFromTheOffice
"I see where they went wrong. I won't make the same mistakes"
HermanManly
Nah the dude looking straight at the camera is worse. He has that "so what" face
Brochiavelli
Well... Tooooo be fair some of them might have been fully aware of what was going on and in support of it.
SmokeMeAKipperIllBeBackForBreakfast
The guy just over his shoulder, with 2 fingers on his cheek, looks like he's thinking "This movie's not bad... 3 stars." but in German.
BKOBGoHAWKS
"DIESE IST EINE WUNDERFLICKENMACHEN!!!"
agermanguy
I just noticed there are many red cross guys there the rest may be doctors ?
Ewoutvhw
Probably just combat medics, still very much soldiers before taken prisoner
agermanguy
I could imagine as medics they have seen dead and open bodys enough , could be a reason why many are not shocked.
Ewoutvhw
Indeed, although I suspect realizing that the country they fought and died for ended up being so very much on the bad side of the war (1/2)
Ewoutvhw
was still quite a shock.
WhatTheFluxCapacitor
Historical dump, the best kind of dump. Good work.
GreatTeacherMichael
Aren't all dumps historical? Like, oh look-- I ate corn in the recent past.
revelator
True. It is impossible to see the present.
ridingfunny
:), i have quite a few. its kinda like a time travel and thats a cool thing :)
BlackTwitterRep
More!!! Please ?
Strostkovy
"On the brink of survival" is a very optimistic way to look at that.
WellBehavedZombie
I agree such odd phrasing which makes it seem like he's already dead.
Kaysmira
Actually did survive apparently, for another 14 years to die of malaria, according to other comments.
Seventytonsofmettle
The Zulu warrior in full attire...bullshit. They just dressed like that for decoration so they could get more customers.
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lambaroo
you probably should also mention that by 1931 south africa was an fully independent country (and semi-autonomous since 1910)
bilateralunsymmetry
Yeah that's the way I interpreted it.
Cthulhukitten
I don't think #4 is a concentration camp survivor, she's just fed up.
ManRammer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Woman_Hitting_a_Neo-Nazi_With_Her_Handbag
ManRammer
Her name is Danuta Danielsson, is Polish and was born 1947. She claimed in one interview that her mother was in a concentration camp.
Cthulhukitten
I stand halfly corrected.
ManRammer
You were completely correct. I just added some more info :) Also, this happened in Sweden.
Cthulhukitten
Yea I know, I'm a swede :)
ManRammer
You 3 :OOO
HomeBoundAstronaut
#3 you'd be surprised to know that a lot of Nazi's didn't even know about the holocaust. only a small portion did.
AHomeWithACat
And those men are more concerned with hiding their faces than anything
Nikolumsen
Well, the SS and the Wehrmacht sure knew about it. I'd say a lot of people knew about it -- in the armed forces atleast.
RedPeggy
Fatherland by Thomas Harris covers this. Set in the 70's if Hitler had won. Great book.
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
Let me sing you a little song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPPaKFJukDA
MidlandRedux
They kept the details of the function of the Death Camps secret to avoid interference and give people deniability . . . .
MidlandRedux
. . . But the hundreds of thousands murdered by death squads all over eastern Europe were common knowledge . . .
MidlandRedux
. . . And the slow extermination of 30,000,000 Jews, Slavs, and Balts was part of the colonization plan for Eastern Europe . . .
MidlandRedux
. . . That was not only public knowledge, it was publicized.
HomeBoundAstronaut
That's interesting to know. i knew the common foot soldier's information was limited, i just didn't know to what extent
MidlandRedux
Execution battalions were assigned to the armies that invaded the Balkans and Russia. They shot people hundreds at a time . . .
MidlandRedux
. . . And buried them in trenches. And took pictures to show their successes. Gehard Weinberg discovered that Rommel had . . .
aDefenseless9yearOldGirl
bschilt3
There was also a strong effort to eliminate bison in order to starve out Native Americons and force them to reservations
aDefenseless9yearOldGirl
Most of the bison extirpation was done by native hide hunters, not by the 20 thousand white ones of the post war era.
revelator
Who owned the land on which they were hunted?
bschilt3
Nobody. It was frontier at the time
aDefenseless9yearOldGirl
Not exclusively.
aDefenseless9yearOldGirl
The fuck does that have to do with anything?
revelator
You bear some responsibility for what you allow people to do on your property.
aDefenseless9yearOldGirl
The idea of conservation hadn't entered the public consciousness yet.
digipakrat
The boy thrown out the window one: couldn't the father go down to one of the first floor apartments and ask them a favor?
MarekS
That's from the time the wall was being built. Construction started in Aug 1961. Later the houses were emptied/demolished.
MBumBum
Highly possible that some East Berlin troops were in the building trying to stop all escape. They ended up 1/2
MBumBum
bricked-up all the windows of the buildings near the line/wall because it would have been too easy to escape. 2/2
ginevrabyss
Those neighbors probably would have reported him and he would have been arrested.
lonelyorange
First thing I was thinking too! It seems like those apartments would have been frequented for travel back and forth.
CaptCraazy
Who would have wanted to go INTO east germany?
SinceTheAccident
Spies.
MBumBum
Maybe for a day or two (or even hours) and then all the windows ended up bricked to stop any escaping
laughinglaura
At all those German Nazi rallies with tons of people, all I can think is how far away the bathrooms had to have been
thehoesenone
There would definitely be führer than you'd hope.
CptnRayHolt
right? I plan outings around my small bladder
shmekie
I always just assume people back then weren't as hydrated or knew they should drink 8 glasses a day.
asdgfaoih
I could imagine they'd all be out of reich.
LittlePapa
Perfect
tarquinbusstopftang
Jeez, me, too. I looked at that photo for a solid minute, thinking about where the bathroom exits might be
thehoesenone
There would definitely be führer than you'd hope.
foxfire1112
LMAO Exactly what I was thinking! glad im not alone
klinger
I was thinking how huge that place is and how there aren't places life that now it seems
joot
This is my biggest concern at the march in D.C. on Saturday. Where can we pee? Pop in the Smithsonian or aerospace museum for a whiz?
pgdave
Actually, yes - and there are a number of businesses that have specifically mentioned being open for potty breaks, and porta potties.
wekilledbambi03
I visited D.C. Right before the last inauguration. There was a literal wall of portapots at least 100 long.
blainetog
Nazi Germany was shitty for more reasons than one.
thedeg
The woman, Danuta Danielsson, in the picture where she hits a nazi was not a survivor. Her mother was, but not her. She was born 1947.
maksamakkara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Woman_Hitting_a_Neo-Nazi_With_Her_Handbag
Sgtpancake
THat picture is even taken in Sweden.
mildobserver
The picture also doesn't show that while there was a neonazi parade of about 10 neo nazis, there were about 2000 people there (1/?)
mildobserver
protesting said parade, throwing eggs,beating up, and chasing the skinheads. Danuta Danielsson herself felt it completely (2/?)
mildobserver
misrepresented the situation, painting her as the "lone hero", when it really was more of a mob attacking them.
jakcspellgood
Glad to hear she wasn't the only one going after those scumbags.
lyneeth
Also wasn't this guy just a skinhead, they aren't all nazis.
Hagge47
Yes, this guy was not a nazi. Still a fun pic.
GentlemanScientist
In Sweden skinhead and neo-nazi were synonymous for the longest time, I didn't hear of any other kind until the early noughties.
mildobserver
They were explicitly national socialists.
ImKimJongUnAndEverythingIsFine
Can you expound on that? Do not all skinheads hold nazi ideology? Isn't that the point of being a skinhead?
egocomplex
Nazi's or National Socialist were a political party. A skinhead is a widely used term used to ID followers of modern day white power movemen
egocomplex
Hitler was a member of the Nazi party and roughly 20% of Germany. Not all Nazis killed Jews or fought in war. I'm German btw.
MajArc0
Google SHARP.
SomeRandomNobhead
No, in UK in the 90's at least, alot of them used to listen to reggae and ska and hang around with black people, my dad was one.
ImKimJongUnAndEverythingIsFine
I'm from the USA where they're all nazis so I think that's where the disconnect is coming from lol
SomeRandomNobhead
Yeah I don't we have much of a nazi culture here anymore, whereas in the 80- 90s skinheads were everywhere, you just had different types tho
nursebrihee
I find it hard to believe that. If that picture was taken shortly after WWII she would not be as old as she looks in the picture.
eggmuffin
It wasn't.
thedeg
Well it wasnt...
peelingurbanana
it was a neo-nazi display, not a Nazi rally
MinorClarification
Shortly after ww2 there were very very few open nazi supporters what with them going into hiding all over the world and being hunted down
marzipanius
The picture is from 1985...
idontknowyoufromadam
Sadly, she died only a few years later, probably a suicide. Apparently she disliked both the photo and the attention that came with it.
KTHRSS
Why do people make assumptions rather than just googling it? Takes seconds to reverse search this photo and it's backgrounds.
zeshoopuf
Or just look at those jeans and figure out there's no way that was in the 40's or 50's.
NotoriousDuchess
This is a really famous image from 85.
27yoUGLYvirgin
Why would the photo be taken shortly after WWII?
WhereNoMan
That's a picture of an 80's skinhead.
SHUTUPASSDICKS
In sweden, the subculture never really were separated from the neo-nazism.
DukePuke
This photo was taken 1985 in Växjö, Sweden (grew up there). Fun fact: the lady is only 38 in the picture.
Machi4vel
That would explain her being born 1947
AskMeAboutMyMuppetFetish
This is mostly true. Also, she was arrested, cuz there was a brick in her bag.
PuppyLord
Confirming. Won best picture award that year.
squip
38? The years have been... *eye twitch*... kind
NaughtButAMadManWalksAlone
Sauce?
arkemiffo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Woman_Hitting_a_Neo-Nazi_With_Her_Handbag
TheRealOwl
Love how the link actually is a woman hitting a nazi with her handbag
fartalert
C'mon, trust the Swede
TheSwedishStag
Trust the Swedes dammit!
Drewbersiah
"Pictures speak louder than words"- OP who uses words to describe pictures
Flyndaran
Some of them were real words too. OPs shouldn't post drunk, is what I'm saying.
CuckooBizarre
the words are not describing, they are commenting
artsystuff
But pictures that speak louder than words are even louder WITH words.
TeddyThePupper
Yes but these pictures probably were more effective than any essay
afrikanbear
Maybe op could use spelling and grammar?
Snarkywisecrack
This is Imgur, not Grammarur or Spellerur.
Flyndaran
A few of the descriptions looked more like head butting a keyboard. Typos are one thing, but this was a bit much for a native speaker.
ridingfunny
haha ! These are just contextual words, that the pictures are speaking loud, else the images would have been mute and dead snaps !
Drewbersiah
Despite the comment you still have my +1. Good work.
ThwompStomp
Is English your first language?
damnallusernamesaretaken
Asking the question we all think. @OP please? :)
ridingfunny
haha. yup ! The things that happen when you are a few beers down and post something on imgur :P
StraightForwardBio
Your username should be writingfunny :p
841pts
too many words, didnt read, explain with image
Victoron
You are here for the comments, not the gifs.
Victoron
or images
841pts
touche
AlexanderTheGood
Mortimouse
Welcome to the club of redundancy club!
Nal0x0ne
Hahaha
Pixie0422
What caliber was it anyway?
kawboi14
OP said 800mm in the post
Username770
Yes it was. Google it
DownVoteBecauseYourContentSucks
In that same sentence he spelled caliber wrong... Do you ever proof read ever?
UnflavouredLight
Um, he spelled it calibre, which is how to spell it. Do yanks invert the re to er? Like in metre and centre.
DownVoteBecauseYourContentSucks
No yanks don't invert it to re because we speak English and not French. I would be wrong if I was a Frenchie.
Drek258
Still only counts as one.
PassiveAgressiveOnion
Was that what Heisenberg was talking about in the season one finale of breaking bad (talking about thermite)
KomodoKill
Remind me of TLOTR's Grond.
GadenKerensky
I do believe it was, but it was highly impractical.
Escheron
It was turned into a giant mecha before the assault on Republic City
JaredTheJeweler
Thank goodness toph was there
Snarkywisecrack
Bigger than the Guns of Navarone?
yoghrut
like everrrrrr
aftu
The grammar used in these fact/photo dumps always baffles me.
SBSP129
Foreva eva
HenryHolmes101
Isn't that Big Bertha?
TheBeardMachine
No Dora, it's a Schwerer Gustav railway gun.
TheBeardMachine
Its sister gun saw action at stalingrad and did (1/2)
TheBeardMachine
The magazine was sited 30 metres under the sea with at least 10 metres of concrete protection. (2/3)
TheBeardMachine
After nine shells were fired, the magazine was ruined and one of the boats in the bay sunk. (3/3)
damnallusernamesaretaken
Ever.
Pliskin775
Ever ever forever ever
OliverKlozoff1269
Forever..foorreeveer...ffooorrreeeveeerr
l8rz
Forever never seems that long
0nTheBrightside
Yeah well Hitler throws like A GIRL!
AwkwardKeming
I would watch this crossover.
Ayzay
You think Hitler was compensating for something?
Counterfit
He sure liked big stuff.
ACanadianPerson
Micropenis.
TidePodPirate
I think Gustav Krupp was too
ZaphodBeeblebroxIsRusselBrand
He only had one ball
KarDXhill
No that was Göring who was shot in the groin in the 20ties at a nazi march
KarDXhill
Maybe that's why Göring became this drug addict clown. He was a famous fighter pilot in WW1. But an asshole anyway.
jb32647
Goering had 2 that were small...
Randommane
Having Italy as an ally
ICanSeeForever
Seriously. Italy probably helped the allies more than the axis. That one friend who always needs bailed out of a jam
DocVolt
Sigh....
Tinebra
Wow that burn. I hate my useless country.
FirstDagger
Actually yes, Dora bombarded Stalingrad and Schwerer Gustav bombarded Sevastopol (48 rounds used, barrel was worn out). 1/2
Leajjes
Dan Carlon's podcast Hardcore history mention the cannon. Highly recommend the poddy.
DeandraReynolds
Also really enjoy this podcast! Learned so much about the incredible magnitude of WWI by listening to it.
djl28
Wore out the barrel after 48 rounds at Sevastopol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav#History
Counterfit
And 200 or so in testing
AzgarOgly
They say it was significant increase of bore diameter after each shot due to wearing of the barrel.
AzgarOgly
So shells where numbered and had a different size to maintain fit.
EMninja2
All that work and effort..
AzgarOgly
Some people like it big.
jo3v
If thats dora, what was bertha?
notjeffsomethingfunny
Bertha is currently boring a tunnel in downtown Seattle
FirstDagger
The Dicke Bertha (Big Bertha) was a WW1 howitzer
tankmemes
Maybe a ww1 gun, maybe the Paris gun? Idk
jo3v
I might have been mixing reality with makebelieves again
Aerolfoz
No, pretty sure there was a Big Bertha, and there was a massive gun before the Gustav used against Paris. Probably the same gun.
FirstDagger
Both guns were blown up to prevent capture after being retreated for maintenance, a third gun was not completed. 2/2
dislilkitty
Yay accurate history!
TidePodPirate
Wow i need to see if theres a video montage of this monster
FirstDagger
Wochenschau (Weekly Review): 80 cm Railway Gun 'Schwerer Gustav' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zISYZA1x620
CanadaEhBuddy
Best part is that those massive explosive charges are triggered by an every day rifle primer
LewisPotts
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EverythingISeeIsAJojosReference
You can probably destroy the moon with a barrage of artillery from that fun.
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