Historic Photos.

[Lord Baal]

Ha! By the time the Japanese were done with them, Korea had a per capita income roughly equal to that of the poorest African colonies.

I meant that after Japan left again they'd shoot back up even higher than they are now.

 

[Gelion]

Warning: pictures very large.

Spoiler Austro-Hungarian PoWs in Galicia, 1915 :

The actual photo was taken somewhere in Siberia.

 

[LightSpectra]

Paul von Hindenburg picking his nose.

 

[Glassfan]

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Late in the war, due to manpower shortages, the British Army exhibited a certain ambivalence towards execution by firing squad.

 

[Kyriakos]

Eleutherios Venizelos signing the glorious Sevres treaty

 

[ZeletDude]

Spoiler :

The American Aircraft Carriers; Saratoga, Enterprise, Hornet, San Jacinto, at Alameda, 1945.

Spoiler :

Uss Lexington

 

[Tee Kay]

The Conference of Lausanne about to cancel the terms of the Treaty of Sevres.

 

[Emperor_Jackal]

Spoiler :

A crowd gathers in Munich to celebrate Germany entering the First World War. I just love how at this time Hitler is a completely insignificant figure in the crowd.

 

[Bugfatty300]

 

[LightSpectra]

Er, what? What is that photo?

 

[Bugfatty300]

An old Bugfatty family reunion photo

 

[Glassfan]

Isn't that Lenin - third from right?

 

[Dragonlord]

Spoiler :

A crowd gathers in Munich to celebrate Germany entering the First World War. I just love how at this time Hitler is a completely insignificant figure in the crowd.

What's the source for that? I don't believe that is Hitler - AFAIK, he didn't acquire his trademark toothbrush moustache until long after the war, when he was already active in politics.
During WWI (and, I guess, before the war) he had a more normal, handlebar type moustache.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

French resistance fighters being executed by teh nazis.

 

[nonconformist]

A crowd gathers in Munich to celebrate Germany entering the First World War. I just love how at this time Hitler is a completely insignificant figure in the crowd.

Doubt very much it's Hitler. Hitler had a traditional German Prussian moustache prior to the war, and only shaved it to the toothbrush so that he could wear the German gas mask in WWI

Hitler is far left

 

[BuckyRea]

WRT Emperor Jackel's photo...

Spoiler :

I'd be less skeptical that this is actually Hitler if I wasn't able to spot at least three Thomas Deweys in the same crowd.


WRT Nonconformist's photo

Spoiler :

Good catch. While Hitler isn't wearing his trademark mustache at this point, I think it's noteworthy that the dog is. Was this perhaps the angry little Lance Corporal's inspiration?

 

[ParkCungHee]

IIRC Hitler himself confirmed that was him in his lifetime. He mentioned being in that crowd in Meink Kampf, and people went looking through photographs for him.

 

[Kyriakos]

An euzonas during the Balkan wars. Greek light infantry.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Oooooo a skirt cut above the knees. Pretty riskue for 1908?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Maybe in Greece....