16 Fascinating Photos From History

1. June 22th, 1941 – Citizens of Moscow listen to a historic radio announcement, saying that German forces invaded at 4 AM that morning and that the war started. 30% of male population will perish in the next 4 years (including 90% of men born in 1923)

2. Whitechapel slum in 1888, the year Jack The Ripper struck

3. Jack The Ripper’s ‘From Hell’ letter

4. The McDonald brothers in front of the not yet opened first McDonald’s, November 1948, San Bernadino, CA

5. Nurses in their bomb trenches between hospital wards. France 1918

6. A young Ho Chi Minh speaking to the French Communist Party in Paris in 1920

7. Children of the Belgian Congo circa 1900. If they did not come back with enough rubber for the day, their hands would be chopped off.

8. Hans-Georg Henke, a 16 year old German soldier, after a long battle he was captured by the American’s and taken as a POW. He burst into tears as a combination of shell shock and fear

9. A French women welcomes an American soldier two days after liberation. Strasbourg, France, 22 November 1944

10. World War 2 Death Notice

11. Manhattan in 1931

12. Men from the U.S coast guard watches as one of their depth charges goes off on the german submarine U-175 in the Atlantic in 1943.

13. At the 50th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, Union (left) and Confederate (right) veterans shake hands at a reunion, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1913

14. Tsar Nicholas II and his cousin, King George V, in 1904 when Nicholas was on a state visit to England

15. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family, murdered by Bolsheviks 100 years ago

16. French troops with war-torn flag, 1917