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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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Who said anything about pitying him?Theboinkmaster wrote: »Instead of posting smart comments why not take the time to post a link or some background to your random picture.Hardly a random photo, it's one of the most iconic photos of that era.
Info here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc
Ok folks, this finishes here. Thanks
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On the world war one theme again,
The Accrington Pals
Officers of the Accrington Pals
The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley, and Bradford. Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took part in the attack, 235 were killed and 350 wounded within the space of twenty minutes. Despite repeated attempts, Serre was not taken until February 1917, at which time the German forces had evacuated to the Hindenburg Line.The policy of drawing recruits from amongst a local population ensured that, when the pals battalions suffered casualties, individual towns, villages, neighbourhoods, and communities back in Britain were to suffer disproportionate losses. With the introduction of conscription in January 1916, further pals battalions were not sought. Most pals battalions were decimated by the end of 1917 and beginning of 1918, and most were amalgamated into other battalions to regularise battalion strength.
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Heinrich Hoffman: The Man Who Shot Hitler
On this day, 128 years ago, a young child named Heinrich Hoffman was born in Fürth, Germany. 35 years later, Heinrich Hoffman would become the official photographer for the NSDAP (The National Socialist German Worker’s Party) — hand picked by party leader, Adolf Hitler as his official photographer.
Getting his start in photography in 1908, the young Hoffman worked in his fathers photography store in Munich, and as a freelance photographer part time. It’s believed that in 1914, during a political rally, Hoffman snapped a picture of a young Hitler at a demonstration, and the photo subsequently ended up being used for propaganda. Just prior to joining the NSDAP, the photographer worked for the German Army.
Being the fuhrer’s only authorized photographer was a full time commitment, and Hoffman began to go everywhere that Hitler went. From large Nazi demonstrations in Berlin, to leisurely outings in the Bavarian Alps, Hoffman shadowed Hitler and shot… and shot… and shot. By the fall of the Reich, Hoffman had taken a staggering 2 million photographs of Hitler, which, due to their pervasive use as propaganda, ended up becoming a very lucrative venture for the Photographer.
When the war ended, Hoffman was arrested by the US Military and sentenced to four years in prison for profiteering. His photographic collections were gathered and sent to the National Archives where they are now considered to be in the Public Domain. Upon being released from prison, Hoffman wrote his memoirs named Hitler Was My Friend, which recounts his time with the dictator, and reveals his responsibility for introducing Hitler to his future wife, Eva Braun. The book is criticized for failing to mention any information about the holocaust, or insights into military strategy, it is still hailed as a brilliant fly on the wall perspective of a man who was Hitler’s confidant, and loathed by Propaganda Minister Goebbels and Secretary Bormann for his apolitical nature.
Enclosed are a series of rare photographs that Hoffman took of Hitler practicing his exaggerated hand gestures for future speeches. Upon seeing the negatives, Hitler ordered the photos to be destroyed, but the photographer hid them, and after the seizure of his archives, were unearthed to the public.
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Soldier’s Camera and Photos from Battle of The Bulge Found in Foxhole 70 Years Later
The Battle of the Bulge is known as one of the most deadly and influential battles of WWII. Taking place over the course of five weeks, this surprise attack by the Germans caught allied forces off-guard, causing massive casualties, especially among U.S. Troops.
Among the 89,000 casualties was a soldier named Louis J. Archambeau, a Chicago native who left behind an interesting surprise in a foxhole he had been taking refuge in during the cold weather and rough artillery fire.
Part of the Company C, 1st Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment, Archambeau was an infantry rifleman. And even though he wasn’t part of the first infantry regiment on the scene, the 317th still managed to find their way into the thick of the battle.
Backing up other allied forces, Archambeau’s regiment eventually took a break to attempt to get some rest and rations. It was during this brief downtime in the foxholes of the frozen ground that Archambeau would document his final moments.
Declared MIA on December 26th, 1944, Archambeau’s last known position was in the side of the hill, in the foxholes with a number of his comrades. He was not declared KIA until February 23rd, 1945, when his body was found. At the time, the circumstances leading up to his death were shrouded in mystery.
Fast forward almost seventy years… U.S. Navy Captain Mark Anderson and his historian friend Jean Muller were out with metal detectors, scavenging around Luxembourg, where the most heated firefights of The Battle of the Bulge took place.
While traveling through the hilly forest that once served as a brutal battleground, the pair came across an empty foxhole, and inside of that foxhole they found the personal possessions of an American soldier, left untouched for almost three-quarters of a century.
Among those possessions was a camera with a partially-exposed roll of film still inside.
When they got that film developed, Anderson and Muller realized that they had stumbled upon a small collection of images taken by Archambeau during his final days, a photographic requiem of his own composition. But they didn’t stop there.
In hopes of finding out more, the duo teamed up with TheTroubledShooters.com in an attempt to seek out Archambeau’s family, show them what they had come across and hopefully shed a little bit of light on the mystery of what happened to their ancestor in his final moments.
A family member was eventually found, taking over custody of these historically and personally significant items, among them the strikingly intact images developed seventy years after being photographed.
We’ve included the developed and scanned images throughout the article, and even though they lack in quality, their power lies in accurately depicting the cold, harsh life of an infantryman during one of the most horrific battles of the Second World War.0 -
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Michael Keogh - Irishman who saved Hitler
Keogh was duty officer at a Munich barracks when he was called to quell a riot that had erupted in a gym. What he saw was not exactly a fair fight.
A crowd of some 200 soldiers was kicking the living daylights out of just two. Some of the attackers were brandishing bayonets. The two victims were about to die.
Keogh ordered his men to fire a salvo over the heads of the mob. It did the trick. He dragged the two victims out of the gym "cut, bleeding and in need of the doctor".
It was a measure of Hitler's madness that he had entered the hall to provoke a reaction from 200 troops, by hectoring them with views that were already openly hateful.
As Keogh dragged him off to the guardroom for his own safety, the future fuhrer continued to spew angry comments.
Once there, Keogh recalled: "The fellow with the moustache gave his name as Adolf Hitler. It was the Lance Corporal of Ligny. I would not have recognised him. He was thin and emaciated from his wounds."0 -
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The father of a two year old boy's in absolute despair after having his head blown open. A fellow boardsie retweeted the uncensored image last night, and it's really struck a chord with me.... If you haven't seen it, I wouldn't be in a rush to find it. There's a lot of images within this thread that will upset or distress people, but this is the worst I've seen
And I'll say this, if this doesn't shake the world, then **** it, the world is broken.
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Blazing fires burn across the heart of a city.
This is not Baghdad after a US airstrike. This is not Kosovo. This is not Cairo. This is not any war-torn city, with military action taking place.
This is Belfast, on the evening of the 12th of July. The fires of the Orange Order. The fires of sectarianism, hatred and apartheid. These fires of hate and racism rival the burning crosses of the KKK.
Effigies of Catholics, Sinn Féin/SDLP posters, Irish tricolours, etc. are all regularly burned atop these massive bonfires. These bonfires symbolise hatred and religious sectarianism.
Neither side is right. I have no love for the Republican sectarians in the North. I have no love for Sinn Féin. But the Loyalist/Unionist/Orange-Order side of the North had one thing that the Republican/Nationalist side did not; a huge groundswell of support from those in power in the North. Their actions were not sanctioned, but a greater blind eye was turned to them.
The fires of hatred, sectarianism and violence still burn strongly in the North, despite all the progress made in the past decades.0 -
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Blazing fires burn across the heart of a city.
This is not Baghdad after a US airstrike. This is not Kosovo. This is not Cairo. This is not any war-torn city, with military action taking place.
This is Belfast, on the evening of the 12th of July. The fires of the Orange Order. The fires of sectarianism, hatred and apartheid. These fires of hate and racism rival the burning crosses of the KKK.
Effigies of Catholics, Sinn Féin/SDLP posters, Irish tricolours, etc. are all regularly burned atop these massive bonfires. These bonfires symbolise hatred and religious sectarianism.
Neither side is right. I have no love for the Republican sectarians in the North. I have no love for Sinn Féin. But the Loyalist/Unionist/Orange-Order side of the North had one thing that the Republican/Nationalist side did not; a huge groundswell of support from those in power in the North. Their actions were not sanctioned, but a greater blind eye was turned to them.
The fires of hatred, sectarianism and violence still burn strongly in the North, despite all the progress made in the past decades.
I'm sorry but that is just pure scum, scum would do things like that! in my eyes, thats no worse than the acts of the kkk0 -
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The Bath School Massacre is pretty disturbing reading. In 1927 it shared front page newspaper headlines at the time with Charles Lindbergh flight over the Atlantic. The massacre took the lives of 44 people (45 include the killer) of which 36 were children at a local school.
The murderer, Andrew Kehoe, left this message for the survivors. He murdered his wife who was stricken with TB, blew up their home, burned down their farm buildings with 2 horses trapped inside, blew up part of a school and then drove to the school as efforts were ongoing to save those trapped in the rubble or dying from the explosion and detonated explosives in his car, killing more people. He had filled the car with pieces of metal and other shrapnel, injuring and maiming others with deadly debris.
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Al Capwned wrote: »The father of a two year old boy's in absolute despair after having his head blown open. A fellow boardsie retweeted the uncensored image last night, and it's really struck a chord with me.... If you haven't seen it, I wouldn't be in a rush to find it. There's a lot of images within this thread that will upset or distress people, but this is the worst I've seen
And I'll say this, if this doesn't shake the world, then **** it, the world is broken.
http://richardedmondson.net/2014/07/13/a-thousand-eyes-for-an-eye-a-thousand-teeth-for-a-tooth/#more-3974 *Uncensored image alert
4-year-old Saher Abu Namous
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Rucking_Fetard wrote: »WTF is wrong with them, Gaza/Israel, like what are they fighting over, seems to be going on forever. In a paragraph WTF is their problem. Other than brainwashed stupidity.
Israel was founded after WWII by taking land belonging to Palestine and giving it to Jewish people who had suffered in Europe, since then they have taken more and more land for themselves causing Palestine to shrink and rebel. Years of fighting and biased media means both sides don't seem to have a clue what the story is anymore.
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Oh very good. Such a complicated background, goes right back to the end of world War 1 really...
(why did they have to find a Home for the Jews?
It's mentioned further down "Whereas recognition has thereby [i.e. by the Treaty of Sèvres] been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine, and to the grounds for reconstituting their National Home in that country" they could have found their own way "home" or settled in Europe?)
I was skimming the wiki
This last sentence^^:eek:. Just asking for trouble. That link there 88 is a good read.On 15 May 1947, the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations resolved that a committee, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), be created "to prepare for consideration at the next regular session of the Assembly a report on the question of Palestine".[78] In the Report of the Committee dated 3 September 1947 to the UN General Assembly,[79] the majority of the Committee in Chapter VI proposed a plan to replace the British Mandate with "an independent Arab State, an independent Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem ... the last to be under an International Trusteeship System".[80] On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union as Resolution 181 (II).[81] The Plan attached to the resolution was essentially that proposed by the majority of the Committee in the Report of 3 September 1947.
The Jewish Agency, which was the recognized representative of the Jewish community, accepted the plan, but the Arab League and Arab Higher Committee of Palestine rejected it.[82] On 1 December 1947, the Arab Higher Committee proclaimed a three-day strike, and Arab bands began attacking Jewish targets.[83] The Jews were initially on the defensive as civil war broke out, but gradually moved onto the offensive.[84] The Palestinian Arab economy collapsed and 250,000 Palestinian-Arabs fled or were expelled.[85]
On 14 May 1948, the day before the expiration of the British Mandate, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel".[86][87] The only reference in the text of the Declaration to the borders of the new state is the use of the term, Eretz-Israel.[88]David Ben-Gurion proclaiming Israeli independence on 14 May 1948, below a portrait of Theodor Herzlwolfpawnat wrote: »But they are two entirely different ethnic groups, they will not see eye to eye, and in the eyes of the Palestinians, why should they be bullied off their land by what they see as foreigners. The Israelis are taking more and more land off the Palestinians, bulldozing homes, schools and hospitals to build their own settlements illegally according to the UN, and putting more Palestinians into a smaller and smaller area. They don't want to integrate with Palestinians, they want to eradicate them at this stage.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/national/5156-population-of-palestine-at-mid-2013-is-4-42-million,-says-statistics-bureau
They're off their land and it's too late to redraw a Map, Israel would just do what Palestain have done in the past, ie not happening. They can't keep going the way they have been, the people on the news/I read about just want to live their lives, would they really care about a constantly moving imaginary line in the Sand?Capt'n Midnight wrote: »No, because the Palestinians would outnumber the Jews in less than a generation. If you allowed the exiles back they would already outnumber them.
Since the UN kinda started this why do they do nothing/sit around while kids are blown up playing Football on a Beach?
You just need the next Generation to grow up together.
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Rucking_Fetard wrote: »Since the UN kinda started this why do they do nothing/sit around while kids are blown up
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^ In relation to Israel, I found this picture on wikipedia last night which to see it laid out like this, surprised me - pretty much all of the English-speaking world is in support of Israel. Although thinking about the foreign policies of some of them, I guess it shouldn't have been a surprise at all.
Black: The Gaza Strip and Israel
Blue: Countries that support Israel's stance and/or condemned Hamas rocket attacks
Red: Countries that condemned and/or expressed concern about Israel's actions
Green: Countries that condemned and/or expressed concern about the actions of neither/both sides
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^ In relation to Israel, I found this picture on wikipedia last night which to see it laid out like this, surprised me - pretty much all of the English-speaking world is in support of Israel. Although thinking about the foreign policies of some of them, I guess it shouldn't have been a surprise at all.
Black: The Gaza Strip and Israel
Blue: Countries that support Israel's stance and/or condemned Hamas rocket attacks
Red: Countries that condemned and/or expressed concern about Israel's actions
Green: Countries that condemned and/or expressed concern about the actions of neither/both sides
Yellow: Counties with mixed official reactions
Is Ireland green or yellow? I'm colour blind and can't tell the difference.. 0 -
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