12 Vintage Photos With An Interesting Story

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Flamingos huddled together in the bathroom at Miami Zoo during Hurricane Andrew (August 24, 1992)

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A police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini on a beach at Rimini, Italy, in 1957.

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Soviet soldiers try to engage a less than cooperative German toddler for a photograph in the ruins of Monbijoustraße in defeated and Soviet occupied Berlin as the child’s mother looks on in resignation. May 1945

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Adolf Hitler on a walk with Helga Goebbels, 1936. Helga was later killed with cyanide by her parents with her siblings in Hitler's bunker in 1945

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Women boxing on a roof, 1938

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Austrians cheer Adolf Hitler during his 1938 campaign (before the Anschluss) to unite Austria and Germany

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A boy is forced by SS members to view his murdered family and pose for a photograph before being murdered in Ukraine, 1941

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The first ever underwater photograph, c. 1899

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One of the first photos that was taken inside of Hitler's bunker by Allied soldiers, 1945

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Young Woman in Dress (c. 1845-1855 --- location unknown)

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A picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa”. It shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.

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A picture from the material deprivation experiments of Harry Harlow. This was called the "Pit of Despair" Baby monkeys were separated from their mothers at birth and left in a metal cone that did not allow them to stand or see out. They were left in this condition for up to one year. The goal was to create mental psychosis and depression. The experiment was 100% effective in achieving its goals.