25 Dramatic Historical Moments That Spice Up History

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This ballsy Russian spy laughs as he prepares for his own death in Finland.

2.

A German Communist holds his head high as he faces a firing squad in Munich, 1919.

3.

German prisoners of war react to watching film footage from concentration camps, 1945.

4.

The main entrance to the Auschwitz Birkenau death camp, which was built in 1944 and transported prisoners straight to their death.

5.

This absurdly long punt gun could discharge a pound of shot each time it was fired.

6.

The famous Red Baron, who was a feared fighter pilot in WWI is seen here with his dog in 1916.

7.

This is the last photo that was taken of the Titanic, 1912.

8.

Mark Twain fools around in the laboratory of Nikola Tesla, 1894.

9.

Soviet soldiers are treated to a performance similar to the American USO shows in 1945.

10.

Books are burned during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

11.

A bomber rains death and destruction on Kobe, Japan, 1945.

12.

Lt. Custer is pictured in color having a bachelors’ picnic with Union troops, 1862.

13.

You have to have balls of steel to voluntarily test a bulletproof vest, 1923.

14.

Stalin clowns around with his bodyguard who he probably had murdered after this photo.

15.

Joseph Goebbels on his wedding day, with best man and mass murderer Adolf Hitler in tow.

16.

An SAS detachment is armed to the teeth in the North African desert, 1943.

17.

Buddhist Monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death at a Saigon intersection protesting the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

18.

Tsar Nicholas is seen rough housing with his friend/man servant/human carpet in 1899.

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Things aren’t going to end well for socialist Japanese politician Asanuma as he is assassinated by a 17-year-old wielding a traditional Japanese blade.

20.

A picture of goalie Terry Sawchuk before hockey masks were a thing, 1966.

21.

The famous day in 1967 when Sweden switched from driving on the left hand side to the right.

22.

Young British aristocrats stand near to some less privileged children in 1937.

23.

The evil iceberg that sunk the Titanic in 1912.

24.

Evelyn McHale put on her Sunday best and jumped from the Empire State Building, 1947.

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Children are overcome by emotion during a puppet show in Paris, 1963.