Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 321, click here.
1. Võ Thi Thang smiling after being sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in a prison camp by the South Vietnamese govt.
After being sentenced she reportedly smiled at the judge and said “20 years? Your government won’t last that long,” 1968.
2. Mohawk warrior attacks Canadian soldiers during the Oka crisis July-Sep. 1990 which began when the Canadian government approved the seizure of Mohawk land for a private golf course.
A 14-year-old Mohawk teen was bayoneted in the chest and almost died. Canada took the land in the end.
3. Children found by Soviet forces in Auschwitz, liberated on 27 January 1945.
4. Jaques Biederer, the first photographer in history specializing in erotic photos.
This photo was taken in Paris in 1928.
5. Captain Lewis Nixon of the 101st Airborne wakes up after a night of celebrating courtesy of Goering’s private Liquor, Wine, and Champagne collection, Austria, 4 May 1945.
6. Arnie supporting disables athletes in the early 1990s.
7. Police dragging away a protester at an anti-Vietnam war protest in Stockholm, 1973.
8. The “Parade of the Vanquished”- almost 60,000 Wehrmacht prisoners-of-war march the streets of Moscow, 1944.
9. British Mark IV Female Tank with Lewis Guns, 1917.
10. Hitler photographed by Heinrich Hoffmann in 1925 practicing speaking while recording play in the background, he later had these photos banned.
