Rarely Seen History: Racism and Nazism (Part 2)

This is a second attempt (see first one here) to grasp the absurdity of these two interlinked ideologies without showing dead bodies or fighting armies. Instead, I used some rarely published photographs that I find extremely fascinating.

British sailor removing the leg irons off a slave, late 1800s.

Ku Klux Klan at the carnival in Canon City ,1925.

World’s Highest Standard of Living – A Margaret Bourke-White Photograph,1937.

A rare color photo of Adolf Hitler which shows his true eye color (date unknown).

US Government mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself, 1940s.

The last photo taken of Adolf Hitler as he overlooks the damage in Berlin,1945.

And here is what he saw…

A German soldier returns home only to find his family no longer there, Frankfurt, 1946 – by Tony Vaccaro

A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of “Home” while living in a residence for disturbed children, Poland, 1948.

Black children looking in on a whites-only playground, Mobile, Alabama 1956.

African girl in human zoo, Belgium 1958.

Black man drinking at white only fountain, ca 1964 – by Cecil Williams.

Nelson Mandela keeps his fists raised after he was sentenced to life imprisonment, June 1964.

Demonstrator at the Harlem Peace March to end racial oppression carries an anti-war sign, 1967.

The child of a KKK member approaches black state troopers, 1992.

Sources of photos: Imgur, Reddit