Rare (and Cruel) Historic Photographs Give Breathtaking Glimpse of the Past - Part II

1. A Young Adolf Hitler

2. Bat-Man Paratroopers 1942

On the Pacific coast where the threat of a Japanese invasion seemed imminent, even a military experts creative juices could take a curious turn. Such was the case for the California State Guard and Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, who dreamed up the idea of bat-man paratroopers.

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3. The most potent argument for vaccination. A man infected with smallpox during the 1881 epidemic.

4. Burning money during the inflation crisis in Germany, 1920. Paper money was cheaper than coal and wood.

5. The results of Congenital Syphilis before penicillin was discovered.

6. Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise on the side his patient, Ann Hodges, after she became the only person in history to have been struck by a meteorite.

7. The Telefontornet, which connected 5,000 phone lines in Stockholm.

8. Ilse Koch, the “bitch of Buchenwald”, in captivity. Her atrocities involved making human skin lampshades.

9. Abandoned asylum from the early 1900s.

10. This disembodied head was kept as a relic of the first “possessed” nun.

H/T dailysanctuary.com.