40 archive photos that may change your view of the past

If any science has benefited the most from the invention of photography, it is history. After all, it is photos that allow us to see events and people exactly as they really were through the years. Today we have prepared a selection of 40 rare historical photos that are worth seeing at least once in your life.

The year is 1961. A German soldier violates a direct order and helps the boy to cross the newly erected Berlin Wall so that he can be reunited with his parents.

Princess Diana without gloves shakes hands with an AIDS patient in 1991, publicly demonstrating that such people should not be shunned.

A San Francisco police officer scolds a man for not wearing a mask during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918.

The year is 1945. Jewish prisoners cannot contain their emotions after being released from the death train.

Members of the Dutch resistance celebrate the news of the death of Adolf Hitler in April 1945.

Engineer Margaret Hamilton next to the handwritten navigation software that she and her team developed for the Apollo spacecraft, 1969.

Michelangelo's statue of David is lined with bricks to protect it from bombing during the Second World War.

An American pilot shelters a wounded Japanese boy from the rain in the cockpit of his plane during the Battle of Saipan in July 1944.

1914-1915 years. A Serbian soldier sleeps next to his father, who came to visit his son right on the front line near Belgrade.

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife, Egypt, 1961.

Anne Frank's father, Otto, returns to the attic where he and his family once hid from the Nazis, 1960. No one, except him, survived the meeting with the Germans.

A black man rides on a white-only bus to protest against the policy of apartheid in South Africa, 1986.

The young Queen Elizabeth works as a mechanic during the Second World War, 1939.

A man arrested for walking around in women's clothing gets out of a police van in New York in 1939.

Albert Einstein with his secretary Helen (left) and daughter Margaret (right) become US citizens to avoid returning to Nazi Germany, 1940.

Soldiers return home after the end of World War II, 1945.

Little Freddie Mercury and his mother, 1947.

The Nazis hang a young Yugoslav partisan Lepa Radic, 1943. At the request of the Germans to hand over the accomplices, the girl courageously replied: "You will know them when they come to avenge me"

Frankfurt, 1946. A German soldier returns home and finds out that his family is no longer there.

November, 1918. A Canadian soldier tries to comfort a Belgian child whose mother was killed by artillery fire.

May 20, 1910. Nine kings of Europe were photographed together for the first and last time.

In the 1960s, drunk visitors to Istanbul bars were taken home in special baskets.

A Russian prisoner of Buchenwald identifies a Nazi who showed special cruelty in the concentration camp.

November 22, 1944. A Frenchwoman joyfully greets an American soldier after the liberation of Strasbourg from the Germans.

September 3, 1967. Confusion on Swedish roads after switching from left-hand traffic to right-hand traffic.

The tallest German soldier, Jacob Nacken (221 cm), talks with Canadian Corporal Bob Roberts (160 cm) after his surrender near Calais, France, 1944.

18-year-old black girl Keshia Thomas defends a white man from an angry crowd during mass protests against the Ku Klux Klan, Michigan, USA, 1996.

Straight into the jaws of death — the landing of the Americans in Normandy on June 6, 1944.

A crowd in Times Square celebrates the surrender of Germany on May 7, 1945.

March 1944, American B-52 bombers fly near the erupting Mount Vesuvius in Italy.

The last photo of the famous scientist Nikola Tesla, January 1, 1943.

A nurse with a sick child during a smallpox epidemic, Wroclaw, Poland, 1963.

This is how passenger planes looked from the inside in the 1930s.

Soviet citizens looking at the wall of sorrow-thousands of faces and names who died from Stalin's repressions, 1988.

George Willig climbs the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York, 1977. After successfully conquering the skyscraper, he was fined $ 1.10 for each floor he climbed.

Portrait of the Danish traveler and Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his wife, fashion illustrator Dagmar Kohn, 1947.

Allied soldiers make fun of Hitler right on the balcony of his Reich Chancellery, 1945.

A date of young Americans in a diner, 1950.

Gangsters hide their faces behind hats at the trial of Al Capone in 1931.

Photo of a nuclear explosion a millisecond after detonation, 1952.