Historical Images That Will Fascinate You..

By Editorial Staff in Cool On 8th April 2014
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#1 The last picture of Adolf Hitler, April 30, 1945

#2 The first photograph upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912

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#3 Underwater detonation of 15 kiloton nuclear weapon

#4 Lucky British soldier shows off his damaged helmet, 1917

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#5 Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, 28 June 1914

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#6 Einstein’s desk photographed a day after his death

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#7 Soviet soldier in the liberated village

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#8 Soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, Berlin 1945

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#9 Adolf Eichmann walks around the yard of his cell, Israel, April 1961

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#10 Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks in WWI, 1916

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#11 British tanks maneuvering trenches during the Battle of Cambrai. France, 1917

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#12 Erwin Rommel helps to push his stuck staff car somewhere in Northern Africa, January 1941

#13 B-32 Bomber Factory in Fort Worth, Texas,1944

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#14 Annual midnight swearing-in of Nazi SS troops, Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1938

#15 Spectators standing upon tables to get a glimpse of the Versailles Treaty being signed, France, 1919

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#16 Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1940

#17 Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 1938

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#18 Germans testing a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E3, 1940

#19 Hans-Georg Henke – 16 Year Old German soldier crying

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#20 A rare color photo of Adolf Hitler which shows his true eye color

#21 Execution of a German Communist in Munich, 1919

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#22 Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light, c. 1937

#23 Gadget, the first atomic bomb

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#24 A dog being posed by a German soldier

#25 The night they ended Prohibition, December 5th 1933

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#26 Liberation of Paris, August 1944

#27 The end of WW2 is celebrated in Moscow’s Red Square, May 9, 1945

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#28 A German soldier with a badge on his chest in Stalingrad, 1942

#29 General George S. Patton’s dog on the day of Patton’s death on December 21st, 1945

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#30 German prisoners march to Moscow after defeat at Belarus during “Operation Bagration”, 17 July 1944

#31 German troops trying to rescue what looks like a French soldier from sinking in a mud hole. Northern France, 1914-1918

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#32 Nine Kings in one photo

#33 Nazis singing to encourage a boycott of the allegedly Jewish-founded Woolworths, 1933

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#34 A US soldier offers his hand to a woman leaving a cave where she had hidden with her child during the battle between Japanese and American forces. Saipan, 1944

#35 A rare shot of a young Winston Churchill, 1895

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#36 Eyes of Hate, A candid photograph of Goebbels after he finds out his photographer is Jewish

#37 American tank crews listen as Bernard Herzog who was liberated from the camp of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines