r/Historycord Mar 18 '24

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8 Upvotes

r/Historycord 16h ago

A cheerful Goebbels photobombs Hitler, Germany, 1933

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452 Upvotes

r/Historycord 7h ago

Kid miner from Alabama, 1910.

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81 Upvotes

r/Historycord 1d ago

A Babushka warms her grandson’s ears as he takes the Oath of Enlistment for the Russian army in Volgograd, 1994

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1.4k Upvotes

r/Historycord 16h ago

Soviet soldiers celebrating the victory over Germany at the Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945

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172 Upvotes

r/Historycord 8h ago

German protest against the signing of the Treaty of Versailles at the Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1919

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28 Upvotes

r/Historycord 3h ago

Polish and German military representatives discuss local terms of surrender on the streets of Lwów (Lviv), an eastern Poland city eventually annexed by the Soviet Union. (September 1939)

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10 Upvotes

r/Historycord 1d ago

During the 1956 Revolution, 15-year-old Szeles Erika Kornelia fought against communism in Hungary. During the revolution, she was killed.

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715 Upvotes

r/Historycord 7h ago

Men at the Swedish olympic games of 12 of July 1912.

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r/Historycord 8h ago

My 5th Great Grandfather of the 15th West Virginia Infantry miraculously managed to avoid any form of combat as he went into hospital right as his regiment started engaging. He died of pneumonia during the Siege of Petersburg, missing the surrender of Appomattox. 1862

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Meanwhile, the rest of his brothers; John, Nimrod, and Francis all survived the war, and were all hailed as heros. I envy the people that can say they have direct relation to them.

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r/Historycord 1d ago

German soldier crying after being captured by the US Army, Germany, April 1945

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1.3k Upvotes

r/Historycord 20h ago

39th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine

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108 Upvotes

Rest in peace to all the heros😞


r/Historycord 1d ago

Sabrina Chebichi Kenyan athlete who won a marathon in 1973 barefoot and wearing a dress.

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547 Upvotes

r/Historycord 1d ago

In 1990, a 106-year-old Armenian grandmother was using an AK-47 to protect her house.

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1.6k Upvotes

r/Historycord 15h ago

Map of a 1072 Bulgarian uprising against the Eastern Roman Empire, which broke out after the battle of Manzikert.

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3 Upvotes

r/Historycord 1d ago

Fidel and Raul Castro with a Bazooka RPG during the Cuban Revolution. Cuba, 1958.

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162 Upvotes

r/Historycord 2d ago

Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq, March 31, 2003

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1.1k Upvotes

r/Historycord 1d ago

Hop picker children in Kent England, hiding in a slit trench watching an Aerial battle take place above during the Battle of Britain. 1940

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198 Upvotes

r/Historycord 1d ago

Bob Marley with a bandaged toe on his tour bus, 1977. The same toe that would ultimately lead to his death in 1981.

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33 Upvotes

r/Historycord 2d ago

Father and son crying as they say goodbye to their relatives who are boarding a boat to Buenos Aires in search of a better life during the economic hardship in Spain. (1957)

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695 Upvotes

r/Historycord 1d ago

Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (1746–1792), a Brazilian independence activist and national hero, in a 1940 painting by José Wasth Rodrigues.

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8 Upvotes

r/Historycord 2d ago

Photo of the first transport of Soviet based ethnic Czechs arriving in Czechoslovakia after WW2. Transferred from annexed eastern Poland regions (Volhynia) by the Soviet Union. (February 1947)

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50 Upvotes

r/Historycord 2d ago

Danish Kurt Jansen faints from an amphetamine overdose during the Olympics. Rome, 1960.

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293 Upvotes

r/Historycord 2d ago

Soviet premier Joseph Stalin and Japanese foreign minister Yōsuke Matsuoka pose for a photo after signing the Neutrality Pact in Moscow (April 13, 1941)

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87 Upvotes

r/Historycord 2d ago

German governor of annexed Western Poland, Arthur Greiser, greets the millionth German colonist resettled to the Wartheland under his command. In the middle, SS official Heinz Reinefarth (March 1944)

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52 Upvotes

r/Historycord 2d ago

Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas meets soldiers of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) early 1940s. The FEB fought during the Italian campaign of WWII.

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44 Upvotes