Buffalo Calf Road Woman is a Native American warrior who is credited with helping kill U.S. Army Colonel George Custer during the American Indian Wars in 1876. Custer was responsible for massacring Native American civilians and allowing his men to commit rape indigenous women [600 × 916].8mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A photo of Abdul Wali, an Afghan farmer. In 2003, he was falsely accused of being a terrorist. Hoping to clear his name, he turned turned himself in to the Americans. A CIA contractor would brutally torture Wali to death over the course of 3 days, beating him until he begged for death [596 x 420].9mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A crowd of about 4000 Nazi sympathizers, some with their children, protest outside Landsberg Prison, demanding amnesty for the hundreds of Nazi war criminals being held there. When Jewish people counter-protested, the crowd chanted Nazi-era slogans and attacked them, West Germany, 1951 [700 x 394].1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A photo of Mbaye Diagne, a UN peacekeeper who disobeyed his orders to stand down during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. He is credited with singlehandedly saving the lives of as many as 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus [1024 x 746].1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Nazi camp overseer Gerda Steinhoff (center middle) stifles a smile as she goes on trial for torturing and murdering prisoners. Most of the accused female overseers for the Stutthof camp did not take their trial seriously. They laughed and joked throughout the proceedings, Poland, 1946 [1461 x 799].1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Jewish-Nazi collaborator Ans van Dijk stands trial for treason. During the war, she baited fellow Jews out of hiding and got them arrested by the Gestapo. Dijk, who was paid for every Jew she caught, sold out at least 145 people, including her own brother, Amsterdam, 1947 [804 x 1000].1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
German student Kalistros Thielecke has his mugshot taken after murdering his mother, whom he stabbed 17 times. He later joined the Dirlewanger Brigade, an SS unit composed of convicted violent criminals. They committed atrocities so brutal that even other SS units were horrified, 1930 [1462 x 941].1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In 1947, he became the chief prosecutor in what was called the biggest murder trial in history. He spent his entire life fighting for justice for the victims of war crimes. He died this week [1199 x 674].8mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
That's the dirty bastard that killed my brother - An injured Nick Kuesis immediately recognizes and points to James Morelli, who killed his brother and shot him in the neck. Morelli and two other men were implicated in five shootings, three of which were fatal, Chicago, 1947 [2048 x 1150]10mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A death squad mercenary stops for a lunch break in El Salvador. The photographer said he bought the man a beer and “took three shots before he went ballistic”, 1980s [1177 x 1760].11mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Pele and President Gerald Ford play with a soccer ball in the Rose Guard, White House, 1975 [791 x 1200]10mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Japanese serial rapist, serial killer, Navy veteran, and self-confessed war criminal Yoshio Kodaira, whose face is concealed with a straw hat, is escorted into court. In addition to killing several Japanese women, Kodaira said he committed various war crimes while in China, 1947 [1206 x 1414].10mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A photo of Father Hans Schmidt, a Catholic priest who emigrated from Germany due to scandals. In 1913, he gained international notoriety after murdering a woman and drinking her blood. For this, he became the first and only Catholic priest to be executed in the United States [766 × 1024].10mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A white mob, consisting of thousands of people, many of whom are hoping to participate in or witness a lynching, stands outside the courthouse as a black man stands trial for murdering a white girl. At least one person in the crowd was seen carrying a rope, Kentucky, 1920 [740 × 435].10mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Piotr Chemy, a young Polish man who survived a concentration camp, is readied for his execution after being convicted of murdering a German family. The family had found him wandering on a snowy night, fed him, and gave him a bed. Chemy killed them as they slept, Landsberg Prison, 1947 [840 x 1200].1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Christine Collins was a California mother whose son went missing in 1928. Five months, police found a boy who claimed to be her son. After Christine said he wasn't, the police asked her to try the boy out. After Christine insisted, she was committed to a mental hospital [602 x 777].5mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Gavrilo Princip's parents in front of their house, Bosnia, 1910s/1920s [645 x 890]2wk ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
In 1912, Floyd Allen, the patriarch of a family of wealthy landowners, was sentenced a year in prison after being convicted of assault. Rather than go to prison, Allen and his family pulled out guns in the court, killing the Judge, the sheriff, the prosecutor, and two others, Virginia [960 x 1186].3mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A view inside the Muskogee Federal Courthouse during the trial of members of a lynch mob. In an extremely rare prosecution for the era, dozens of men were indicted for their roles in the torture-killings of two Native American teenagers, Oklahoma Territory, 1899 [1374 x 912].5mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Saddam Hussein speaks at an emergency session of Ba'ath Party leaders, which he convened. He claimed to have discovered a planned coup. Saddam then read out the names of the 68 alleged conspirators, who were taken out of the room. Twenty-one of them were later shot, Iraq, 1979 [1289 x 912].4mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
William Walker was an American doctor who invaded Central America in the 1850s. After failing to conquer parts of Mexico, Walker, with his own army, overthrew the Nicaraguan government. He became President for 10 months, relegalized slavery, and made English the official language [720 x 1024].4mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
An American infantry camp in Russia during the Siberian Expedition. The troops were part of the Allied intervention on the side of the Whites during the Russian Civil War, Siberia, December 1918 [1600 x 1195].3wk ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Austrian police and soldiers stand outside the RAVAG studio in Vienna. The building was overtaken by a group of 15 Nazis during the July Putsch, an attempt by the Nazis to forcefully annex Austria. A small war broke out, with over 100 people on each side being killed, July 25, 1934 [960 x 691].4mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
During the Rwandan Genocide, Mbaye Diagne, a UN peacekeeper, disobeyed his orders to stand down. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. He is credited with singlehandedly saving the lives of as many as 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is strapped to a post moments before his execution by a firing squad for war crimes. Dostler was convicted of having 15 POWs summarily executed (Italy, December 1, 1945)1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/wwiipics
An African man points a defendant at the Luanda Trial. The trial is only time that anyone has been tried for crimes against peace since World War Two. Thirteen Western mercenaries, mostly from Britain and the United States, were tried by an Angolan tribunal for war crimes, 1976 [2048 x 1429].1wk ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor from the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In 1947, he became the chief prosecutor in what was called the biggest murder trial in history. He spent his entire life fighting for justice for the victims of war crimes. He died this week.8mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
Officials in England examine fingerprints to see if they match a bottle they found next to a toddler's cot. The girl had been abducted, raped, and had her head smashed against a well. Over 40,000 fingerprints were examined, which was every single male in the town over the age of fifteen.1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
A group of Native American schoolchildren are photographed at the Panguitch Boarding School. The school was one of many Native American boarding schools operating in both Canada and the United States, with the goal of assimilating Native Americans, Utah, 1900s [723 x 500].5mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Buffalo Calf Road Woman is a Native American warrior who is credited with helping kill U.S. Army Colonel George Custer during the American Indian Wars. Custer was responsible for massacring Native American civilians and allowing his men to commit mass rape against indigenous women.8mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
Captured Chinese soldiers beg for their lives to a South Korean soldier, thinking they are going to be executed (Korean War, 1951).1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
Three Chicago teenagers are photographed after their arrest for robbing and murdering an elderly man in an apparent thrill-killing. The murder caught national attention at the time. All three teens were released from prison within 10 years. All three met different fates afterwards (1965).8mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
German student Kalistros Thielecke has his mugshot taken after murdering his mother, whom he stabbed 17 times. He later joined the Dirlewanger Brigade, an SS unit composed of convicted violent criminals. They committed atrocities so brutal that even other SS units were horrified (1930).1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
This is U.S. General Jacob Smith. During the Philippine-American War, he ordered his troops to kill everyone after being ambushed. He told his Major I wish you to kill and burn. When the officer asked for an age limit, Smith replied 10 years. His troops would massacre at least 2000 civilians.1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
The death mask of Maximilien Robespierre. He was one of the key figures in the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror (1914).8mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
German student Kalistros Thielecke has his mugshot taken after murdering his mother, whom he stabbed 17 times. He later joined the Dirlewanger Brigade, an SS unit composed of convicted violent criminals. They committed atrocities so brutal that even other SS units were horrified (1930).1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is strapped to a post moments before his execution by a firing squad for war crimes. Dostler was convicted of having 15 POWs summarily executed (Italy, December 1, 1945)1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/ww2
The founding members of the Iron Guard, fascist movement in Romania, pose for a group photo. The Iron Guard was founded in 1927, and would reach a membership of nearly 300,000 in the late 1930s [1000 x 627].5d ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A group of Filipino men point to a well in which women and children were thrown, then crushed with rocks, during a massacre committed by Japanese occupation forces. Between October 1944 and May 1945, the Japanese slaughtered nearly 25,000 civilians in the Batangas Province.1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
Four SS men pose for a group photo in the Treblinka extermination camp. Each one of them personally committed mass murder. Paul Bredow (leftmost) shot 50 Jews every day for target practice. Josef Hirtreiter (rightmost) smashed the heads of infants against walls, 1940s [840 x 557].6mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Liberian commander Jungle Jabbah (middle w/sunglasses) poses with his men. During the First Liberian Civil War, they raped, tortured, enslaved, murdered, and cannibalized hundreds of civilians. Jabbah would sometimes force the widows of his victims to boil the hearts of their dead husbands.1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
A board counting the number of Japanese holdouts killed by the Guam Combat Patrol. By April 1946, they had 176 kills, but only 12 captures. In turned out the patrol, which consisted entirely of indigenous people, hated the Japanese so much that they were killing holdouts even when they surrendered.1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
Bryant Bowles holds his daughter at a pro-segregation protest. Bowles, the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, said his daughter would never attend a school with Negroes as long as there is breath in my body and gunpowder will burn (Delaware, 1954).3mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
A photo of Englishmen Peter Poole after his arrest for murdering his black houseboy in Kenya. Poole was one of countless Kenya cowboys, young British men who moved to Kenya so they could hunt and kill black people for sport (British Kenya, 1960).6mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
An artist's depiction of the execution of Nathaniel Gordon, a convicted slave trader. Gordon was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of African men, women, and children. Africans who didn't survive Gordon's voyages would have their bodies thrown overboard (New York, 1862).1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
Arthur William Hodge was a British plantation owner, slave owner, and serial killer whose victims were his own slaves. He brutally tortured them, including multiple children. According to surviving slaves, Hodge once dunked a 10-year-old boy in boiling liquor until his skin peeled off.9mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
A photo of General Jacob Smith. During the Philippine-American War, he ordered his troops to kill all Filipinos after an ambush, stating I wish you to kill and burn. When his subordinate requested an age limit, Smith replied 10 years. At least 2,000 civilians were killed, 1900 [750 x 1024].5mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
In 1954, William Unek massacred 21 people in Africa before escaping. In 1957, he went on a second rampage, claiming another 36 victims. This is Iyumbu Ikumbu, who ended his rampage. Ikumbu somehow held a conversation with Unek for nearly two hours, buying time for the authorities to be notified.1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
German war criminals are readied for their public executions in front of a massive crowd. A Soviet military tribunal sentenced them to death for their participation in the murders of tens of thousands of Jews and other civilians (Kiev, January 29, 1946).11mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
Alabama Governor and presidential candidate George Wallace lies on the ground after being shot. The shooting effectively ended Wallace's campaign and would leave him crippled from the waist down for the rest of his life (Maryland, 1972).9mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
Paul Gruninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders to save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they came when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Gruninger was fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension, 1930s [360 x 480].2hr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Four SS men pose for a group photo in the Treblinka extermination camp. Each one of them personally committed mass murder. Paul Bredow (leftmost) shot 50 Jews every day for target practice. Josef Hirtreiter (rightmost) smashed the heads of infants against walls (1940s).1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
A group of four recently orphaned boys sit at a county prosecutor's office after telling officials about the murder of their parents. The family were resting alongside Route 66 during a road trip when a man arrived and attacked them as they were sleeping, Arizona, 1961 [1238 x 1188].5mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Four SS men pose for a group photo in the Treblinka extermination camp. Each one of them personally committed mass murder. Paul Bredow (leftmost) shot 50 Jews every day for target practice. Josef Hirtreiter (rightmost) smashed the heads of infants against walls (1940s).1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Arthur William Hodge was a British plantation owner, slave owner, and serial killer whose victims were his own slaves. He brutally tortured them, including multiple children. According to surviving slaves, Hodge once dunked a 10-year-old boy in boiling liquor until his skin peeled off.5mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TrueCrimeDiscussion
Bryant Bowles holds his daughter at a pro-segregation protest. Bowles, the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, said his daughter would never attend a school with Negroes as long as there is breath in my body and gunpowder will burn, Delaware, 1954 [1200 x 965].3mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A group of SS men smile for a photo together in the recreational SS colony in Kleinobringen. The colony was not far from Buchenwald concentration camp, where over 56,000 people were killed. In front of them is a foosball table (1940).1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Japanese serial rapist, serial killer, Navy veteran, and self-confessed war criminal Yoshio Kodaira, whose face is concealed with a straw hat, is escorted into court. In addition to killing several Japanese women, Kodaira said he committed various war crimes while in China, 1947 [1206 x 1414].10mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/serialkillers
Arthur William Hodge was a British plantation owner, slave owner, and serial killer whose victims were his own slaves. He brutally tortured them, including multiple children. According to surviving slaves, Hodge once dunked a 10-year-old boy in boiling liquor until his skin peeled off.6mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/serialkillers
An Indian man comforts his wife as she cries inside their house, which was destroyed during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The riots were notable for their brutality. At least 250 women and girls were gang raped and burned alive. Officials did absolutely nothing. Sometimes, they even helped the rioters.1yr ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/MorbidHistory
Peter Poole was one of hundreds of young British men who moved to Kenya to suppress the Mau Mau Uprising. According to Robert Ruark, these men would hunt Africans with the same enthusiasm that they devoted to polo or football, often killing them for sheer sport, British Kenya, 1960 [491 x 768].6mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
As his entourage looks on, Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler inspects a boy in Belarus to determine whether or not he is sufficiently Aryan. The boy's life is dependent on Himmler's conclusion, Minsk, 1941 [2085 x 3122].5mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Three Zionist terrorists stand trial for bombing a bus full of Arab civilians. The attack was a reprisal for a previous attack in which 10 Jews were killed by Arabs. The bombing was symbolized the rejection of restraint by some Zionist paramilitaries, Palestine, 1938 [1200 x 820].5mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Peter Poole was one of hundreds of young British men who moved to Kenya to suppress the Mau Mau Uprising. According to Robert Ruark, these men would hunt Africans with the same enthusiasm that they devoted to polo or football, often killing them for sheer sport, British Kenya, 1960 [491 x 768].5mo ⋅ lightiggy ⋅ r/TrueAnon