Oh, this amazing past!

It is always interesting to observe the amazing past of mankind, even if not so far away. The silent witnesses of historical events gathered in this issue in the form of archival photographs tell us about the affairs of the past days.

1914. German mounted patrol crossing the Meuse

1944. The landing of the Canadian brigade in Normandy

1888. Prince of Wales at the Hiram Stevens Maxim Machine Gun test

1945. Survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

1948. Anti-communist protests in Berlin

1949. The crowd tries to have time to pick up their valuables from the bank before the Communists enter Shanghai

1918. An elderly refugee woman with her cow. Amiens

1963. The inventor of glasses-TVs Hugo Gernsback

1940. Children on the London Underground

1944. A Soviet soldier wearing a CH-42 breastplate on the Karelian front

1906. Rainer Maria Rilke © Bernard Shaw

1921. Portrait of an imbecile © Philip Supo

1902. Leo Tolstoy with his daughter Tatiana in Crimea