Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 351, click here. 1. Jewish-Nazi collaborator Ans van Dijk stands trial for treason. During the war, she baited fellow Jews out of hiding and got them arrested by the Gestapo. Dijk, who was paid for every Jew she caught, sold out at least 145 people, including…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 350, click here. 1. Ladder 3 was one of the first units to show up at the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. Sadly, its crew perished in the collapse of the North Tower. Their truck is now displayed in the NYC Memorial. 2. King…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 349, click here. 1. George Harrison of the Beatles taking a selfie at the Taj Mahal in 1966. 2. Salvador Dali painting “The Face of War”, 1940. 3. A Romanian sub-officer gives the victory sign on New Year’s Eve 1989 in the aftermath of the revolution.…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 348, click here. 1. Circus performer Jimmy Armstrong having a smoke break, 1958. 2. Drive-in car hops in shorts and cowboy boots at the Log Lodge Tavern near Love Field airport in Dallas, Texas, 1940. 3. Press photographers and police snipers lie side by side on…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 347, click here. 1. A firefighter looks towards the heavily damaged Belgrade’s tallest building, NATO bombing, April 1999. 2. Lincoln at Antietam, September 1862. 3. Elite Egyptian women at a French tailor shop in Cairo, the 1890s. 4. The Statue of David was bricked inside this…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 346, click here. 1. A crowd of about 4000 Nazi sympathizers, some with their children, protest outside Landsberg Prison, demanding amnesty for the hundreds of Nazi war criminals being held there. When Jewish people counter-protested, the crowd chanted Nazi-era slogans and attacked them, West Germany, 1951.…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 345, click here. 1. President George W. Bush aboard Air Force One after the 9/11 attacks, 11 September 2001. 2. The aftermath of the Tulsa massacre, 1921. 3. Piotr Chemy, a young Polish man who survived a concentration camp, is readied for his execution after being…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 344, click here. 1. P.T. Barnum & Bailey’s combined circus performers, New York, 1924. 2. Photo taken one millionth of a second, from two miles away, of US testing of a nuclear blast, 1945. 3. Old women with tattoos characteristic for Croatian Catholics in Bosnia. The…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 343, click here. 1. A Jewish child shows her friends a dandelion she found in the grass while waiting outside the gas chambers, Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. 2. George Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, listening to Malcolm X speak in a Nation of Islam Meeting,…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 342, click here. 1. Tokyo residents mourning Hachiko. He would regularly meet his owner, Professor Ueno, at Shibuya Station after he returned from work. Sadly, Ueno died on 21 May 1925 & never returned. However, Hachiko would return to the station every day for 9 years,…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 341, click here. 1. On 12 November 1928, the Banana Massacre occurred in Santa Marta, Colombia. Approximately 2,000 workers of the United Fruit Company were killed while demanding decent working conditions. 2. War criminal Erna Petri is booked after being exposed. During the war, Erna, a…… Read More »