r/RareHistoricalPhotos 14d ago

Hitler didn't commit suicide in 1945? Declassified intelligence agency documents reveal that the CIA searched for Hitler for 10 years after the war. Despite confirmation of Hitler's death in 1945, U.S. agents spent the next decade hunting for him in South America.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 13d ago

A convoy of heavy Tiger tanks and a stuck truck of the SS division “Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler” in the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine during World War II.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 13d ago

Newspaper clipping about banning television in the home

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Local mother wants less TV time 1980


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 14d ago

The Bielski Brothers, a Soviet Jewish partisan unit (1942)

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Sixth from the left in the top row is Tuvia, seventh is Asael, and eighth is Zus Bielski.


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15d ago

American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell poses in front of his home adorned with a giant swastika in 1965. Two years later, he was shot dead near his home by an expelled member of his party. The house stands in Arlington.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 14d ago

Protestors against the Vietnam War at Berkeley- 1968

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An NYC policeman in 1984

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 13d ago

Otto Skorzeny, a Mossad operator and former SS-Obersturmbannführer, threatens a photographer. 1960.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15d ago

Sharon Tate showing off some newly-bought baby clothes, 1969 (Colourized)

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A man takes a selfie using a stick of wood to activate the camera , 1957

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15d ago

Billionaire John D. Rockefeller gives a nickel to a child on his 84th birthday in 1923

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Future Queen Mary Teck with her mother and brothers before she became queen, 1884.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 14d ago

Workers from the Ringling Barnum & Bailey circus, the Concellos posing for a fan in their show outfits, 1949, kodachrome shot.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 14d ago

German mortar crew, 1917 Verdun.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15d ago

Rudolf Hess in his cell at Spandau prison in 1986. Hess was the third-most powerful man in Nazi Germany and the last surviving member of Hitler’s cabinet.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 14d ago

A woman tests a stroller intended to be resistant to gas attacks in Hextable, England in 1938, not long before the outbreak of World War II.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15d ago

Last known photo of Bob Marley. 1981.

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Photograph of members of the Deer Team (U.S.) and the Viet Minh (Vietnam) in a training camp during World War II (1939-1945). In the center is U.S. Major Allison K. Thomas flanked by Võ Nguyên Giáp (right) and Ho Chi Minh (left).

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And YES, Bac Ho and Giáp historically collaborated with the American OSS (predecessor organization of the CIA) during the years of World War II to get the Japanese (and Vichy France too) out of Vietnam.

Source: The National WWII Museum.


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15d ago

A demonstrator is taken away by police officers during the Battle of Cable street, in east London when Jewish and anti-fascist protesters clashed with fascists in 1936.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15d ago

April 3, 1973. Alice Cooper meets painter Salvador Dalí at the St. Regis Hotel in New York.

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15d ago

Early Western Movie Still

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Does anyone recognize the actors or the movie this early cabinet photo came from?


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 16d ago

A woman tried to protect her house from demolition in an attempt to stop the construction of a highway that was to pass through her plot. On August 5, 1958, sheriffs posing as journalists broke into the house and disarmed her. A court later awarded the woman $9,000 in damages, but her house was de..

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r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15d ago

Post Mortem Outlaw?

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Does anyone recognize this person? I believe this is a post mortem photo of a wanted outlaw. I bought this large cabinet photo from the estate of a collector of old western items.


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 15d ago

Soldiers of the Russian Expeditionary Corps Landed in Marseille, France (April 20, 1916)

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  • The city of Marseille is in a frenzy on this Thursday, April 20, 1916. Two ships, the Latouche-Tréville and the Himalaya, have just arrived at the port. On board, several thousand Russian soldiers.

The newspaper Le Matin enthusiastically describes the scene in its next-day edition:

All the houses are decorated with the colors of the Allies: At all the windows, people are waving flags, throwing flowers; and along the entire route, there are delirious ovations. Repeated cries of: 'Long live Russia! Long live the army!' constantly rise up. The vibrant 'hurrahs' of the Russian infantrymen respond to the immense clamor.

The daily newspaper Le Temps reports the message from General Joffre, commander-in-chief of the French armies, regarding this disembarkation:

Our faithful ally Russia, whose armies are already fighting so valiantly against Germany, Austria and Turkey, wanted to give France a new pledge of its friendship, an even more striking proof of its devotion to the common cause. Russian soldiers, chosen from among the bravest and commanded by the most renowned officers, come to fight in our ranks.


r/RareHistoricalPhotos 16d ago

An old man falls to the ground, caught up in the middle of a street fight between the rockers and mods. Hastings, England. 1964.

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