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You Won’t Recognise These 27 Rare Moments In History. Number 21 Is Shocking

Reading a history textbook just doesn’t give you the same impression as seeing history first hand. What your about to see are 40 rare and incredible photos of historical moments that may just give you a new perspective. Touching, heartbreaking, enlightening and shocking in equal measure – take a look at these remarkable pictures.


1. German children play with stacks of money during the hyperinflation period

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2. Nazi celebration in Buckeberg in 1934

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3. Nazis singing to encourage people to boycott Jewish shops in 1933

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4. A Jewish woman in Austria in 1938 sitting on a bench marked “Only for Jews”

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5. SS troops lounging outside the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936

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6. SS troops taking oath in Munich

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7. Hitler’s personal bodyguards

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8. Einstein on the beach

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9. A frozen Soviet fighter propped up by Finnish soldiers to wreak psychological warfare

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10. Stalin’s record from Secret Police in 1911

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11. Off the cuff picture of Stalin

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12. German soldier shares food with a local Russian mother

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13. Russian spy laughs about impending execution by Finnish soldiers

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14. Frenchman cries during Nazi occupation in 1940

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15. German soldiers marching to Stalingrad

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16. Using a flamethrower to light a cigarette

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17. German’s packed into a prisoner camp in Russia

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18. Simone Segouin, an 18-year-old French R sistance fighter during WWII

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19. Joseph Goebbels and a young German recruit in 1945

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

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

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22. The view from the back of the auditorium

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23. Ruins of Dresden after WWII

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

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25. Fidel Castro smoking huge cigar and wearing two Rolex’s during a meeting at the Kremlin, 1963

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26. NASA scientists in 1961

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27. Iron Lady with British troops after the surrender of Argentina in the Falklands War

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Wow, truly incredible images. Some of these old photos depict the most important historical moments of all time. Share this article so that others too can see the amazing sacrifices and struggles humans have faced throughout history.