50 Photos That Shine A Light On Some Of The Darkest Parts Of History

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Anne Frank’s Father Otto, Revisiting The Attic Where They Hid From The Nazis. He Was The Only Surviving Family Member (1960)

Later the photographer Arnold Newman recalled taking of this photo: “The mood was depressing, and I immediately began photographing him. After a few moments, the Westertoren bells next door began to ring, and Frank turned to me and said: ‘Those were the bells that Anne wrote about.’ He suddenly broke down completely, weeping uncontrollably, and then so did I. We never met again. To this day when I lecture or tell this story to people, I find I choke up; I still can’t help myself.”

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BetterBitterButter 3 years ago

When I first read the book I was around 12 and it was part of our curriculum. At that time I didn't know that her father had survived the camp. There must be so many families who didn't see a single survival. There must be so many who survived to find out they don't know a single person. It's beyond messed up and again humans are sometimes absolute monsters to other humans.

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50 Photos That Shine A Light On Some Of The Darkest Parts Of History

Anne Frank’s Father Otto, Revisiting The Attic Where They Hid From The Nazis. He Was The Only Surviving Family Member (1960)

Runaway Slave Peter, Exposing His Severely Whipped Back

Dorothy Counts, The First Black Student To Attend An All-White School In The United States. Shown In This Photo Teased And Mocked By Her White Male Classmates

The Dog Tags Of 58,307 US Soldiers Killed During The Vietnam War At The Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago

Human Zoos Existed. These Photos Taken In 1904, Where Us Government Imported 1,300 Indigenous Filipinos From Different Tribes To Display At The St. Louis Exposition In 1904

War In Ukraine

A Ku Klux Klan Child And A Black State Trooper Meet Each Other, At A Klan Rally Protest In Gainesville, GA (1992)

Two Armenian Counter-Militias Fighting The Armenian Genocide Perpetrated By The Turkish Ottomans. 1915

Motel Manager James Brock Pours Muriatic Acid In The Monson Motor Lodge Swimming Pool, To Get Black Swimmers Out Of The Pool. June 18, 1964

A Patient Undergoing Treatment For Mental Illness, Germany 1890

Croatian Soldier In Front Of A Wall That Says "God If I Die Young Send Me To Heaven In Hell I Have Already Been"

George McLaurin, First African-American Student Admitted To The University Of Oklahoma, Forced To Sit Apart From White Students. 1948

A Few Of The Thousands Of Wedding Rings The Nazis Removed From Holocaust Victims To Salvage The Gold

A Rescue Dog Is Transported Out Of The Debris Of The World Trade Center. The Twin Towers Of The Center Were Destroyed In A September 11 Terrorist Attack

Martin Luther King Jr. With His Son, Pulling Up A Burnt Cross From The Front Lawn Of His Atlanta Home, April 1960

Blanche Monnier Was A Woman From Poitiers, France, Who Was Secretly Kept Locked In A Small Room By Her Aristocratic Mother And Brother For 26 Years

A Photo Of Zyta Sus, One Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Children Who Were Kidnapped By The Nazi Regime

A Japanese Family Returning Home (Seattle, Washington) From A Relocation Center Camp In Hunt, Idaho On May 10, 1945

Magdalene Asylums, Also Known As Magdalene Laundries. Places Of "Reform" For Women That Didn't Fit The Idea Of A Good Upstanding Citizen

WWII Gas Masks For Babies

Father Luis Manuel Padilla Holds A Wounded Government Rifleman Shot Down In The Streets Of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela

Ebensee Concentration Camp Prisoners. 1945

With Her Brother On Her Back, A War-Weary Korean Girl Tiredly Trudges By A Stalled M-26 Tank At Haengju, Korea. 1951-09-06

Mugshots Of Two Men Imprisoned For Having Intercourse With Each Other. Stockholm, Sweden In 1897

Unknown Man During The Depression, Circa 1932

Coal Miners In Belgium Crammed Into A Coal Mine Elevator, Coming Up After A Day Of Work, Circa 1900

The Earliest Known Picture Of The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Taken Just Moments After The Meltdown And Explosion Of Unit 4 On April 26, 1986

"Servants, Be Obedient To Your Masters" - The Bible Written For Caribbean Slaves. It Was Edited To Remove Any References To Freedom And To Send A Very Specific Message To Slaves

Hungarian Jews Being Selected By Nazis To Be Sent To The Gas Chamber At Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Auschwitz Album 1944

Instant Of Test Nuclear Detonation Captured By Harold Edgerton's Rapatronic Camera With Shutter Speed Of One Hundred Millionth Of A Second. Circa 1950s

Omagh Bombing

"A Watch Stopped At 08:15 AM Found In Hiroshima". August 1945

An Ambulance Driver From The Indian Army Clenches His Hands, Indicating The Intense Pain In His Leg Which Has Been Almost Completely Blown Off. Korean War (1951)

All Women And Girls Using Radium Paint With No Protection Or Warnings In 1922

An Inmate At The Rab Concentration Camp

Nurses In Their Bomb Trenches Between Hospital Wards. France 1918

Nazi Rally Attended By The 20,000 Americans. Madison Square Garden, 1939

Red Rebels Are Being Executed In Varkaus During The Insurrection In Finland In 1918

The Irrepressible Australians At Anzac. An Australian Bringing A Wounded Comrade To The Hospital. Dardanelles Campaign, Circa 1915

Nagasaki, Japan, Under Atomic Bomb Attack

Captured Chinese Soldiers Beg For Their Lives Thinking That They Are Going To Be Executed, Korea 1951

Rear View Of Woman Standing At Berlin Wall, In The West Sector, With Hands Raised. After Waiting Three Hours To See Her East Berlin Friends And Relatives

A Scene At A London Railway Station Showing Troops Arriving While Kiddies Who Are Being Evacuated From London Leave

"Colored" Drinking Fountain From The Mid-20th Century With African-American Drinking

Flash Burns On Steps Of Sumitomo Bank Company, Hiroshima Branch

The Gadget, The First Atomic Bomb, 1945

The Ku Klux Klan On Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue, 1928

Adolf Hitler And His Entourage Walk Near The Eiffel Tower In Paris On June 23, 1940, Following The Occupation Of France By The Nazis

Ku Klux Klan Parade 9/13/26

Children Of An Eastern Suburb Of London, Who Have Been Made Homeless By German Bombings, Sit Outside The Wreckage Of What Was Their Home, September 1940

12-Year-Old Dragoljub Jelačić Defending Belgrade In WWI

Auschwitz Camp Guards On A Day Trip (1944), It's Just Astounding To Look At

Exterior View Of The Union Carbide Pesticide Factory Scene Of The World's Worst Industrial Disaster In 1985

Nazi Rally Being Held At The "Cathedral Of Light" In Nuremberg

Bruno Tesch (Left), A Chemist, Entrepreneur, And Co-Inventor Of Pesticide Zyklon B, Goes On Trial With Two Coworkers

Photo Of The Aviation Accident Known As "The Day The Music Died", That Occurred On February 3, 1959, Near Clear Lake, Iowa

Pennsylvania Breaker Boys. The Dust Was So Dense At Times As To Obscure The View. This Dust Penetrates The Utmost Recess Of The Boy's Lungs. South Pittston, Pennsylvania 1911

The Imprint Of A Mitsubishi Kamikaze Along The Side Of HMS Sussex

In 1970 A Sniper Blew Up A Semi Truck Hauling 20 Tons Of Dynamite On Interstate 44 Near Springfield, MO. This Is The Resultant Crater

Young Boy In Sarajevo Using A Destroyed Tank's Cannon As Makeshift Monkey Bars To Have Some Fun, During The Bosnian War (1990s)

Holocaust Jews In A Railway Car

A "Red Train" Of Carts From The "Wave Of Proletarian Revolution" Collective Farm In The Village Of Oleksiyivka, Kharkiv Oblast In 1932

Sinking Of MS Estonia, 28 September 1994

A Rare Photograph Showing Both Stalin And Trotsky At Felix Dzierżyński’s Funeral In July 1926. Also Pictured Are Molotov, Kamenev And Zinoviev

This Is U.S. General Jacob Smith. During The Philippine-American War, He Ordered His Troops To Kill Everyone After Being Ambushed

A Cafe Near The Tobacco Market, Durham, North Carolina. Separate Doors For "White" And For "Colored"

A Soldier Preparing To Dispose Of A Bomb In Northern Ireland, Circa 1970s

Soviets Invasion Of Prague, 1968

Prison Labor, Pitt County North Carolina, 1910. The Prisoners Were Transported In Caged Wagons To Road Work Projects

German Reichsmarschall, Commander Of The Luftwaffe Hermann Goering (1893 - 1946) During Cross Examination At His Trial For War Crimes, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946

The Bar Has A Sign That Reads "Positively No Beer Sold To Indians" Birney, Montana. August 1941

Korean War Refugees Aboard USS Weiss. 1952, September 16

The Dust Bowl Dust Storm Approaches Stratford, Texas In 1935

February 24, 1970 - 14-Year-Old Keith Sapsford, From Australia, Died When He Fell 200 Ft Out Of The Wheel-Well Of A Plane, As It Took Off From Sydney On A Flight To Tokyo

May 25, 1979 - American Airlines Flight 191 Was Departing O'Hare International Airport When It Crashed Into The Ground After The Left Engine Detached From The Wing

Crew Members Of B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay”, That Dropped The Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima In 1945

Swimmers At A Las Vegas Hotel Watch The Mushroom Cloud From An Atomic Bomb Detonation 75 Miles Away In 1953

Senator Robert F. Kennedy Delivers Remarks To His Supporters Around Midnight In The Ambassador Hotel Moments Before Being Assassinated By Sirhan Sirhan. 5 June 1968

Aerial Photo Of A French Gas Attack On The Somme, Ca. 1917