Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

Germany, 1945

An American soldier, PFC Douglas Page, offers a mocking Nazi salute inside the crumbling ruins of the Berlin Sportpalast, or Sports Palace. The venue, destroyed during an Allied bombing raid in January 1944, was where the Third Reich often held political rallies.

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The More You Know

  • More than two percent of the American population was killed during the Civil War.
  • The Germans and British soldiers paused the war for a day during Christmas Day 1914. They sang, drank and celebrated together. They even had a match of football.
  • Between 1900 and 1920, tug of war was an Olympic event.
  • Parts of the Great Wall of China were made with sticky rice.
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