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HistoryPorn
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Relive the Past in Jaw-Dropping Detail!
HistoryPorn is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!
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Czechoslovakians fleeing their country and into Austria after the Soviet invasion, 1968
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Hemp rope armor of the British locomotive "Hairy Mary", South Africa, Second Boer War, ~1898
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62493137
On February 8th, 1943, she was captured by the 7th SS Prinz Eugen Division. She was interrogated, tortured and beaten for 3 days, but refused to say anything. On February 11th, she was publically hanged.
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A couple on their wedding day in war-torn East Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanese Civil War, 1989
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American soldiers displaying a German Panzerschreck and the small (but deadly) penetration hole resulting, France, WW2, 1944
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A family of Germans that took their own lives in Advance of the Soviet Red Army in April 1945, Colorised
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On the final days of the war the Nazi Government had suggested suicide as an option against both the American and the Soviet menace, thousands of Germans followed through, primarily making use of drugs to kill themselves.
In this image, the family used a Cyanide Capsule, spending their final moments in a park.
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