‘The Most Beautiful Suicide’, May 1947 by photography student Robert Wiles. The woman in the photo was 23-year-old Evelyn McHale. “At the bottom of Empire State Building the body of Evelyn McHale reposes calmly in grotesque bier her falling body punched i zNSFW

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B-29, 444th BG, C.B.I. Theater, WW2. [OC] [875×1024]

Police working a homicide scene, by Detective Charles A. Carlstrom, 1918 [990 ×

Young children play in the streets of Berlin summer 1945(1024x731)

Austrian civilians who had committed suicide out of fear of the approaching Russians,

Old brothel price list-date unknown [1000x611]

Execution of a collaborator by a French firing squad. Rennes, France, 21 November

Japanese POW found hanged the morning after the Cowra (NSW, Australia) breakout of

Two Hungarian revolutionaries walk past the bodies of Soviet secret policemen killed

Ten years after the fierce fighting in 1944/45 the remains of a german soldier of

Johnny Cash's finger at San Quentin Prison, 1969 (x-post /r/IconicImages)[1280x1135]

Massacres of Lithuanians carried out by Soviet NKVD in June of 1941 [2116x1262]

A refugee carrying his cholera-stricken wife away from the fighting during the Bangladesh

Womens from SS guard in Bergen-Belsen camp 1945 working under Allied supervisor.

Death from overdose in Harlem. New York City, 1972. Photo Leonard Freed [462 x 704]

Josef Mengele in the laboratory 1944 [1024x739]

A group of Farnsworth Art School students paint nude model, Photo by Andreas Feininger.

[NSFW/NSFL] The bloated and rotting body of a Japanese soldier taken after the Battle

German soldiers stare at hanged Serb civilians. Pančevo, Yugoslavia, April, 1941.

American poses with Haitian revolutionists killed in an engagement with U.S. Marines

A member of the 301st Independent Infantry Battalion, Japanese Northern Army who

Knocked out and burned M4A3(76)W of the 48th Tank Battalion, 14th Armored Division.

NSFL - the rubber tire from a T-34-76 model 1941 knocked out in a ditch forms a grotesque

Charred corpse of a victim of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, photo by Arnold

The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, Marion, Indiana, 1930 [1600 × 1285]

Frontline sauna, Finland, September 1941 [1984x1390]

The remains of two Slovenian guerilla fighters, captured and beheaded by the SS in

Starved people on the streets of Kharkiv during the Holodomor 1933 [1490×1080]

The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967 [1300x890]

Dead Chinese civilians on a street corner. Nanking Massacre, China, 13 December 1937.

A dead Imperial Japanese soldier of the Special Naval Landing Force. Saipan, 1944.