Interesting Historical Photos

1. Tokyo residents mourning Hachiko.

He would regularly meet his owner, Professor Ueno, at Shibuya Station after he returned from work. Sadly, Ueno died on 21 May 1925 & never returned. However, Hachiko would return to the station every day for 9 years, waiting for him to come back, 1935.

1. Segregationists harass 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, creating a doll of her in a coffin due to her going into an all-white school, Louisiana, 1960.

1. Nazi camp overseer Gerda Steinhoff (center middle) stifles a smile as she goes on trial for torturing and murdering prisoners.

Most of the accused female overseers for the Stutthof camp did not take their trial seriously. They laughed and joked throughout the proceedings, Poland, 1946.

1. A crowd of 40,000 people watch the burning of “un-German” books by authors not considered to conform to Nazi ideology at the Opernplatz in Berlin on 10 May 1933.