These Photos Will Leave You Speechless

Here are some historical images that will leave you speechless. Some images contain sensitive/disturbing content, so viewer discretion is required. Source: Reddit.

Two seconds before execution of Polish resistance members, Warsaw Uprising 1944. Their expressions are very intriguing as each reacts differently to the inevitable.

The lynching of Jesse James in Waco, Texas, for the alleged rape and murder of his white employee’s wife, became a well known example of racially motivated lynching.

A girl devastated as the Tsunami hit Japan. It shows the bitter reality of losing everything in a day.

Thich Quang Duc, the monk who burnt himself protest to the South Vietnamese Diem regime’s pro-catholic policies and discriminatory Buddhist laws.

Reichserntedankfest, or Thanksgiving Celebration of the Reich, 1937. The number of spectators in the photograph is a glimpse at the might of the Nazis at that time in Germany.

Haiti after the earthquake. The man in the photograph may be called immoral by many as he is seen throwing he dead bodies of children. However, in a time of catastrophe, he stood on his feet a to do to protect those alive.

This man accidentally hit an 8 year old girl. The photograph very fairly shows his guilt for the accident.

Wilbur Wright looks on  as his brother Oliver makes history. Wilbur’s body language is highly amusing as he waits eagerly for his brother to take off.

Fire Escape Collapse, this picture captures  a woman and her daughter falling from the fire escape. The photograph won the Pulitzer.

A Shell shocked Soldier. It seems as in that precise moment, he was broken, his eyes glowing like a Cheshire’s cat as the ground slips away beneath his feet.

A couple or possible strangers, embrace as a factory in Bangladesh collapses. It portrays the human need to avoid loneliness, even if it’s at the last breath.

This was hailed as one of the most influential photographs in the world by Life Magazine as it shows the child standing up to his father for physically abusing his mother.

The Kiss of life photographed in 1967 by Rocco Morabito showed a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation between two workers on a utility pole.

The kid reacting to the news that his brother was just killed and shot. His sorrow to the grave news and the policemen’s reaction while delivering the sad news, gives the photograph a heartbreaking realistic perspective.

Clint Malarchuk’s slashed throat in the middle of the ice hockey game when an opposing player hit him. Though he was saved, this incident is still engraved in the minds of ice hockey fans.

Before and after picture of a town hit by a tornado. It portrays the unexpected consequences of natural disasters.

H.H Bennet made his son jump to  between two rock formations to prove his new invention of advanced shutter technology in photography in 1886.