re: Another Historical Photos Thread

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photo still has absolutely nothing to do with Hitler or the Third Reich.

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dafuq are you smoking? If it isn't part of wwii it's at least part of the aftermath.

Unknown child poses with Rosie O'Donnell

That was an outstanding line up of bands.

That's too bad. I haven't been back to that area in many years. I remember going to a lot of the races and those guys were awesome. Betcha LSUDad remembers this place.

BR Speedway talk

In the east (Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Latvia) they collected a lot of the gold rings and gold teeth, etc after the retreating germans dug up the mass graves to burn after the bodies. They had details of Jewish prisoners sifting through the ashes to find gold before killing them in the next pyre. They were also destroying evidence when they realized that the 1000 year third Rheich was not going to happen as promised.

Recently watched a great French documentary on Netflix called "Einsatzgruppen" that details the special regiments that were assigned to what became the Holocaust. It didn't appear to be planned the way that it ended up being carried out. One bit of info I learned was that so many Jews were murdered by nationalist citizens of the central European countries listed above and not by Germans early in the war. Once the Soviets retreated during Operation Barbosa, the "Bolshevik Jews" were rounded up by nationalist locals who were anti-communism and mass murdered and disposed of in pits or ravines. The Germans supervised mostly during that early part of the Genocide. The gas chambers weren't really developed until after the Germans had problems with their own soldiers being negatively affected by the personal mass killing of people, maybe PTSD or just flat out reluctance to take innocent lives. They started automating the process by piping carbon monoxide from trucks and vans into rooms. That led to gas chambers in the camps. Lots more detail in the documentary if anyone is interested.

Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Chuck Norris @ Bruce Lee's funeral in 1973



NEC Videophone 1960s




Keith Richards looks for a drink (1972)



Military police, reinforced by Army troops, throw back anti-war demonstrators as they tried to storm a mall entrance doorway at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967.



Wrecked Soviet vehicles are shoved alongside the street in the Panchir Valley village of Omarz in northeast Pakistan in February of 1984.



Golf on a skyscraper in New York 1932

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The Kovno Garage Massacre

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Ah yes. They mention it with some of the photos in the documentary, I just went down a deep hole after googling it... Apparently the victims were initially trapped in the garage trying to steal cars and escape after the Russians evacuated. The men doing the killing were political prisoners recently released from a prison when the Red Army left. Stories go that the main young man doing the beating had his parents abducted a few days earlier. I would like to know more about how the jews became synonymous with communism and soviet occupation in these areas. Eyewitness accounts of the massacre make it sound like the Jews in the massacre were somehow involved in the Soviet occupation that only recently occurred in Lithuania in the year prior to this event. I know in Germany the propaganda was strong. But in Soviet Lithuania why would they hate the Jews to this visceral of an extent? Was anti-semitism that strong in the whole region? Or was there some truth to all or some of the Jews being involved or complicit in the soviet occupation?

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That is a bad arse picture.


I remember she was a truck driver in the army during WWII. She is the only head of state who served in the military during WWII.

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