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Sunday 24 August 2014

40 Rare Pictures of History you never seen before

NASA scientists in 1961.


Fidel Castro smoking a cigar and wearing two Rolex watches during a meeting at the Kremlin, 1963.


The view from the back of the auditorium.


Nazi soldiers react as they are forced to watch footage from concentration camps.


Allied soldiers mock Hitler from the balcony of the Reich Chancellery in 1945.


Joseph Goebbels and a young German recruit in 1945.


Color photo of Simone Segouin.


German POWs packed into a prisoner camp.


Simone Segouin, an 18-year-old French RĂ©sistance fighter during the war. This photo is from 1944


57,000 German POW are marched to Moscow in 1944 after their defeat in Belarus.


German POW being escorted after the Soviet victory in Stalingrad.


Using a flamethrower to light a cigarette. The German army employed flamethrowers on the Eastern Front during the war.


Nazi soldiers getting ready for an assault in Stalingrad in 1942.


German soldiers marching Stalingrad, 1942.


German Einsatzgruppen (death squads) executive Ukrainians Jews in 1942.


About to be executed by the Finns, this Russian spy laughs.


A German soldier share some of his food with a local Russian mother.


Joseph Stalin (right), and his body double Felix Dadaev (left).


Joseph Stalin's record from the Tsarist Secret Police in 1911.


A frozen Soviet fighter propped up by Finnish soldiers to wreak psychological warfare on the invading Soviets.


An off the cuff picture of Stalin.


Applause and salutes for Hitler after Germany successfully annexed Austria in 1938.


Another angle, and in color.


Hitler's personal bodyguards in Berlin in 1938.


Nazi SS troops lounging outside of the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936.


Nazi celebration in Buckeberg in 1934.


Nazis singing to encourage people to follow their boycott of Jewish shops in 1933.


A Frenchman cries during the Nazi occupation in 1940.


German children play with stacks of money during the hyperinflation period of the Weimar Republic, 1922.


Mass of melted nuclear fuel in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.


Female IRA fighter showing off her assault rifle in the 1970's.


Einstein on the beach.


The ruins of Dresden after WWII.


A Jewish woman in Austria in 1938 sitting on a bench marked "Only for Jews."


Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces during the battle of Shanghai, 1937.


Margret Thatcher with British troops after the surrender of Argentina in the Falklands War.


The remains of soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov after his space capsule crashed on reentry.


SS troops taking a loyalty oath in Munich, 1938.


Simone Segouin with a German MP 40.


Stalin's son Yakov Dzhugashvili captured by the Germans in 1941. He was later killed in a prison camp.