The first photograph upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912
Courtesy Molon Labe
Underwater detonation of 15 kiloton nuclear weapon
Lucky British soldier shows off his damaged helmet, 1917
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, 28 June 1914
Einstein’s desk photographed a day after his death
Soviet soldier in the liberated village
Soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, Berlin 1945
Adolf Eichmann walks around the yard of his cell, Israel, April 1961
Executions of Kiev Jews by German army mobile killing units, 1942
Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks in WWI, 1916
British tanks maneuvering trenches during the Battle of Cambrai. France, 1917
Erwin Rommel helps to push his stuck staff car somewhere in Northern Africa, January 1941
B-32 Bomber Factory in Fort Worth, Texas,1944
Annual midnight swearing-in of Nazi SS troops, Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1938
USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze off the coast of Xiamen, China, 6 April 1945
Spectators standing upon tables to get a glimpse of the Versailles Treaty being signed, France, 1919
Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1940
Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 1938
Germans testing a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E3, 1940
Hans-Georg Henke – 16 Year Old German soldier crying
A rare color photo of Adolf Hitler which shows his true eye color
Execution of a German Communist in Munich, 1919
Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light, c. 1937
Gadget, the first atomic bomb
The last Jew in Vinnitsa, 1941
The last picture of Adolf Hitler, April 30, 1945
A dog being posed by a German soldier
The night they ended Prohibition, December 5th 1933
Liberation of Paris, August 1944
The end of WW2 is celebrated in Moscow’s Red Square, May 9, 1945
A German soldier with a badge on his chest in Stalingrad, 1942
General George S. Patton’s dog on the day of Patton’s death on December 21st, 1945
German prisoners march to Moscow after defeat at Belarus during “Operation Bagration”, 17 July 1944
German troops trying to rescue what looks like a French soldier from sinking in a mud hole. Northern France, 1914-1918
Nine Kings in one photo
Nazis singing to encourage a boycott of the allegedly Jewish-founded Woolworths, 1933
A US soldier offers his hand to a woman leaving a cave where she had hidden with her child during the battle between Japanese an
A rare shot of a young Winston Churchill, 1895
Eyes of Hate, A candid photograph of Goebbels after he finds out his photographer is Jewish
American tank crews listen as Bernard Herzog who was liberated from the camp of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
U-118, a World War One submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, Sussex, England
A Russian adjustable mobile shield that could protect against small arms fire and shrapnel captured by the Germans, 1914
Testing a bulletproof vest, 1923
The Messerschmitt Me 264, its objective: being able to strike continental USA from Germany, 1942
Russian soldiers prepare chlorine cylinders for a gas attack against German positions near Ilukste, 1916
Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital, 1940
Nazi raising the swastika over the Acropolis, Athens
German soldier dives for cover as shell explodes behind him at an artillery position, Western Front, 1917
Stalin in an off-record photo by Lt. Gen. Nikolai Vlasik, the Soviet dictator’s bodyguard
Control room of the UB-110 German submarine, 1918
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel inspecting the Omaha beach defenses, 1944
A V-1 flying bomb “buzzbomb” plunging toward central London, 1945
Maori Battalion in North Africa, 1941
Jesse Owens on the podium after winning the long jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Ovation for Hitler in the Reichstag after announcing the successful Anschluss, March 1938
Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920
Joseph Stalin mugshot held by Okhrana, the Tsarist Secret Police, 1911
The Eiffel Tower during the Nazi occupation, 1940
Young German SS soldier. Date and location unknown.
The Cologne cathedral stands tall amidst the ruins of the city after allied bombings, 1944
Laughing at Auschwitz – SS auxiliaries poses at a resort for Auschwitz personnel, 1942
A German child meets her father, a WW2 soldier, for the first time since she was 1 year old, 1956
Using banknotes as wallpaper during Hyperinflation, Germany 1923
Opium den, Singapore, 1941
Using a traditional Japanese blade, 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi assassinates socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo, Japa
The face of war: The first press pictures of dead U.S. soldiers that was presented to the public,Papua New Guinea, 1942-43
A couple of warriors holding hands, Vietnam, 1971
Erwin Rommel and staff, Western Desert, 1942
The 2800 year old kiss
Lady in a litter being carried by her slaves, province of São Paulo in Brazil, 1860
Hitler rehearsing his speech in front of the mirror, 1925
African American fighting at the Ardennes Counteroffensive, 1944
Marina Ginesta, a 17-year-old communist militant, overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, 1936
German Panzer III in the Western desert, 1942
Turkish official teasing starved Armenian children by showing bread during the Armenian Genocide, 1915
Captured Italian soldiers are escorted to the rear by German soldiers during the Battle of Caporetto, 1917
To have an elongated head was an ideal of beauty among the Mangbetu people, 1930
German stormtrooper officer portrait,1918
German soldiers in trench, Soviet Union, October 1943
I like the Russian Adjustable Mobile shield thing. Creative for its time.
I also think when hyperinflation hits, our dollars are going to be used for wallpaper too.
Thank you Wade for these amazing pictures! You know the old saying a picture say’s a thousand words.