'Der Jude in der Fuchsfalle' "The Jew in the Foxtrap" 18th century antisemitic German poem accompanied by an engraving, artist unknown
Posted 21st Apr 2026r/PropagandaPosters
Former Reichsmarshall Herman Goring being interrogated by US forces after surrendering to them, May 1945. A caption written on the photo when it was found reads "Goring sweating out the inquisition. He 'squeeled' to [unintelligible] his bull-like neck"
Posted 21st Apr 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
German citizens giving the 'Heil' salute to Adolf Hitler at the opening of the 11th Olympiad in Berlin, 1936. (1661x1200)
Posted 21st Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
Former Reichsmarshall Herman Goring shortly after his arrest by US forces, May 1945. Goring's initially friendly treatment by US forces, including being allowed to give interviews, socialize & drink with US troops, & eating meals with American officers, caused controversy (1800x1170)
The dead body of Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu moments after his execution via firing squad by local forces, 1946. Antonescu was responsible for the implementation of the Holocaust in Romania, which killed up to 400,000 people, mostly Jews and the Romani (1301x1192)
Posted 20th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu and his ministers just moments before their execution, being led to the clearing in which they would be shot dead by a Soviet firing squad, 1946. Antonescu was responsible for the implementation of the Holocaust in Romania, which killed up to 400,000 people
Posted 20th Apr 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
1930 portrait of Romanian fascist leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, who founded both the 'Legion of the Archangel Michael' in 1927 & the 'Iron Guard' in 1930. In 1938 he was strangled to death or shot on the orders of King Carol II, his corpse being disfigured with acid & buried in concrete (1135x720)
German Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945. Throughout WWII Rundstedt had been aware of, but never supported or opposed, various plots against Hitler. By the end of the war he was the German army's most senior member, with 52 years of service (1000x1254)
'Buonaparte at Rome giving audience in state.' 1797 cartoon by British caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank condemning Napoleon for his ruthlessness in conquering Rome & the Papal states. In the background a French soldier can be seen urinating into a container of holy water
Posted 20th Apr 2026r/PropagandaPosters
"The Prophet of the Hebrews, the Prince of Peace, conducting the Jews to the Promis'D Land." 1795 Gillray cartoon mocking religious activist Richard Brothers, an early advocate of 'British Israelism,' which espoused a belief in the British people's descent from the ten lost tribes of Israel
"In the Dreyfus Affair, the more that is exposed, the more Judah is embarrassed." 1899 Antisemitic caricature from the Viennese magazine 'Kikeriki,' portraying Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish army officer convicted, and later exonerated, of being a foreign spy.
'Rothschild.' Anti-semitic caricature by French artist Charles Lucien Leandre showing the Rothschild banking dynasty, a golden calf on it's crown, with the world in its grasp. 1898
Posted 19th Apr 2026r/PropagandaPosters
"Die Fremdsprachigen Ausgaben des Buches" A poster displayed by the Nazis at the 1936 Olympic games (carefully scrubbed of any explicit antisemitic message) showing the variety of countries into which Hitlers autobiography and manifesto 'Mein Kampf' had been translated
German officers posing with athletes from the American and Indian teams at the Berlin Olympic games, 1936
Posted 19th Apr 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
An American soldier pointing out a sign to German civilians that memorializes the 800 prisoners shot by the SS near the town of Nammering, 1945. In the background, other German civilians walk among corpses exhumed from the mass grave. (1537x1200)
Posted 19th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
A young German army officer posing with American athletes at the Berlin Olympic games, 1936. (1194x741)
SS commander & Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp director Amon Göth surveying the site on horseback, between 1943-44. Göth became notorious for his extreme abuses of power while serving as director, such as periodically shooting random prisoners from the balcony of his room with a sniper (1643x1200)
The leaders of the major western powers in Paris, 1959. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, US President Dwight Eisenhower, French President Charles De Gaulle, and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1800x1080)
Posted 18th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
US Presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt chatting with farmers near Warm Springs, Georgia, during the 1932 presidential campaign. FDR ran on the promise of bringing a wide variety of much needed improvements to rural Americans. (3586x2968)
Posted 17th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
US and French Generals George S Patton and Charles De Gaulle in Paris, shortly after it's liberation, 1944. (1178x1072)
French socialist revolutionary Louis Auguste Blanqui, 1880. Blanqui's career in revolutionary politics spanned over 50 years from before the 1830 revolution to after the Paris commune. He was one of the earliest advocates of communism & an influence on Marx, & spent 33 years in prison (4587x3127)
Posted 16th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
1937 photo of Italian dictator & 'Protector of Islam' Benito Mussolini brandishing 'The Sword of Islam,' a ceremonial weapon given to him during a propaganda campaign meant to endear him to the Muslim population of Italian Libya. These attempts were very poorly received by the locals (2474x1908)
Posted 15th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
Former (& future) Prime Minister Winston Churchill pays his respects at the grave of US general George S Patton, 1946. Patton died suddenly in a car crash only months after WWII ended (1300x1018)
Future WWII hero & French president Charles De Gaulle with his daughter Anne in the 1930's. Anne was born with down syndrome but was never institutionalized, as was common at the time, & lived with her family until the end of her life. She died of pneumonia in 1948 at the age of 20 (1310x900)
"It's got to be sooner or later, and it looks like 'sooner'" 1898 Puck cartoon by Louis Dalrymple glorifying the US victory in the Spanish-American war as a victory for anti-imperialism
Posted 14th Apr 2026r/PropagandaPosters
Russian Tsar Nicholas II & German Kaiser Wilhelm II wearing the respective uniforms of each others countries on the deck of the SMS Deutschland, 1907. 7 years before their countries would be at war. During WWI Wilhelm would finance the revolutionaries that overthrew & killed Nicholas (7353x5043)
Posted 14th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
Tsar Nicholas II giving the kiss of holy peace to a Russian soldier during WWI, 1916. The Tsar, his family, and his regime would not survive the next two years (2425x1774)
Martin Luther King Jr. with Ghanaian Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah after a meeting in 1957, MLK was only 28 years old at the time. That same year King would help found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference while Nkrumah would preside over Ghana gaining independence from Britain (1024x880)
Despite being a relatively small demographic in each country, the US and the USSR spent a combined 33 years, almost a third of the 20th century, being governed by Georgians
Posted 13th Apr 2026r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
US President Theodore Roosevelt reaching from a traincar to shake hands with a native American man on horseback, 1912 (1051x900)
Posted 13th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
US President Ronald Reagan chats with NASA astronauts Henry Hartsfield & Thomas Mattingly on the runway as first lady Nancy Reagan examines the nose of space shuttle Columbia following its Independence Day landing at Edwards Air Force Base on July 4, 1982. (2198x2107)
Late 1800's portrait of Afghan monarch Abdur Rahman Khan, commonly known as "The Iron Emir." Over his 21 year reign Khan became famous for his military prowess and his success in unifying war-torn Aghanistan. He was also notorious for his brutality, killing over 100,000 of his own people (1278x1000)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (6'2) and Ronald Reagan (6'1)
Posted 12th Apr 2026r/heightcomparison
Future US President Theodore Roosevelt as a North Dakota deputy sheriff, holding 3 boat thieves he captured at gunpoint, 1886. Roosevelt was only 28 years old at the time. (2310x1489)
Posted 12th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
1901 portrait of US President Theodore Roosevelt, around the time he succeeded the assassinated President Mckinley. At 42 years of age, Roosevelt remains the youngest President in US history to this day (5603x3781)
US President-elect Woodrow Wilson and President William Howard Taft laughing it up at the White House prior to Wilson's inauguration ceremony, March 4, 1913 (3825x3000)
What historians consider to be the first war crimes trial in history, the 1474 case of German knight Peter von Hagenbach, took place almost 500 years before the Nuremberg trials, but less than 180 miles from where they’d be held. Hagenbach argued that he was just following orders, “I was only human”
Posted 11th Apr 2026r/HistoryAnecdotes
Winston Churchill moved to tears following a tribute to his legacy shortly after his resignation as Prime Minister, 1955. Churchill would remain a British MP until 1964, but would never again return to the position of Prime Minister (1200x980)
Posted 11th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
US President Woodrow Wilson presiding over an official Flag Day celebration, 1914. Secretary of state William Jennings Bryan and future President (then assistant Naval secretary) Franklin Delano Roosevelt are also onstage (9245x6761)
A young Franklin Delano Roosevelt messing around with his cousin Jean Delano at their summer estate in Campobello, 1910 (3000x2194)
"L'État, c'est moi" ('The state, it is I') 1904 Puck cartoon by Udo J Keppler criticizing President Theodore Roosevelt for abuse of executive power. The title and imagery were meant to evoke Louis XIV
Posted 10th Apr 2026r/PropagandaPosters
Dead bodies of the "Reds" (socialists) at the Kalevankangas cemetery after the Battle of Tampere during the Finnish Civil War, 1918 (3703x2494)
Posted 10th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
The dictators of Iberia, Francisco Franco of Spain and Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal flanked by security guards as they exit the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, 1950. Unlike their right wing counterparts throughout Europe both men made sure to remain neutral during WWII (3543x2595)
French General and 'Free France' chairman Charles De Gaulle shakes hands with a young boy, 1940's. (650x618)
Posted 9th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
Icon to Chinese Eastern Orthodox christian martyrs killed by nationalists and government troops during the Boxer Rebellion, commissioned for the Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Massachusetts, 1990
Posted 9th Apr 2026r/PropagandaPosters
'Are our teachings, then, in vain?' Puck illustration from 1900 portraying Confucius and Jesus as united in their disapproval of the violence resulting from the Boxer Rebellion. Udo J Keppler
Russian President Vladimir Putin and TV host Larry King on the set of "Larry King Live," 2000. Putin had taken power just 4 months before the interview took place. (3424x2282)
Posted 8th Apr 2026r/HistoryPorn
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