Welcome to RareGist: 179 Never Seen Photos Of The Past

We promise, after watching this gallery you'll never look at history the same way again

1. He's the one!

Russian slave laborer among prisoners liberated by 3rd Armored Division points out former Nazi guard who brutally beat prisoners. Germany, April 14, 1945

2. Shooting practice for German soldiers in 1935.

3. Socialist Politician Asanuma as he was assasinated by 17-year old Yamaguchi in Tokyo, 1960.

4. German soldiers of war execute a communist in Munich, 1919.

5. Letter from Gandhi sent to Adolf Hitler in 1939.

6. Everytime a plane landed on the wrong carrier, it was tradition to graffitti it before sending it back.

7. A mother and her child in Las Vegas watching the nuclear testing just 75km away...

8. "Get yer babies here! Two for the price of one!"

9. The orginal prototype of Mt. Rushmore in 1941- this was before funding ran out.

10. This is a "Punt Gun"- used for duck hunting, it had the potential to kill 50 birds in one fell swoop- it was banned it the late 1860's.

11. Tommy Lee Jones in his senior year at St. Mark's School of Texas.

12. The great class divide in Great Britain before World War Two.

13. Morgan Freeman sporting an afro in one of his first television roles.

14. The last ever public execution in the United States, 1936.

15. Muhammad Ali, then still Cassius Clay, training in a pool at the Sir John Hotel in Miami.

16. U.S. intelligence produce fits of what Hitler may look like if he was going into hiding.

17. Steve Carell dressed in costume for a play in his final year at Middlesex School.

18. Moving day for the folks in the suburbs, 1950s.

19. Robert Downy Jr poses with his father's friend, Mike Tyson.

20. Laika, the first dog in space, has her capsule built around her. No provisions were made for her return, and she died in orbit.

21. Steve Buscemi during his days as a New York firefighter.

22. A happy chimp holding a newspaper after surviving his trip to space.

23. The inside of the Cathedral of Amiens during World War II.

24. Sarah Silverman at one of her first casting calls for 'Gypsy'.

25. The Ku Klux Klan at a carnival in Canon City.

26. A man testing a prototype football helmet.

27. A foot guard passes out as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during a parade.

28. Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise on the side his patient, Ann Hodges, after she became the only person in history to have been struck by a meteorite.

29. The Telefontornet, which connected 5,000 phone lines in Stockholm.

30. Children without access to water learn to swim in a schoolyard.

31. Want some popcorn?

32. Image of Loana the Bloodthirster, who died in 1909. It is purported her death was from the drinking of her own blood.

33. People used to pose with their dead relatives.

34. Photo from an era long before photoshop is said to be genuine.

35. You don't need horror movies and ghost stories because real life is scary enough!

36. This photo was taken by a mom of her child's assembly. The "dancer" was not there and only showed up in one picture. Note the absence of legs.

37. Ilse Koch, the "bitch of Buchenwald", in captivity. Her atrocities involved making human skin lampshades.

38. A real person who burst into flames. A phenomenom known as "spontaneous human combustion".

39. Photo captured of a girl in the early 1900s at a gravesite. It wasn't until years later that the abnormality was discovered.

40. Abandoned asylum from the early 1900s.

41. Artifacts and remains from an ancient city within Germany known as "Hexelheim". It dates from over 7,000 years ago, and these items and bones show clear signs of flesh stripping in preparation for cannibalism.

42. This is a real dead body at the bottom of a swimming pool. The picture was captured during a photoshoot for the hotel.

43. This disembodied head was kept as a relic of the first "possessed" nun.

44. Old photo of strange taxidermy jewelry.

45. The mummified heart of Auguste Delagrange, a purported vampire. After being accused of killing over 40 people at the turn of the last century, he was finally killed in 1912. They even pierced his heart with a stake, seen here.

46. Ventriloquist dummies.

47. The severe effects of shellshock, what we now know as PTSD, on a WWI soldier.

48. Before the advent of Tinder and Match.com, Woodsmen in Montana put out an advertisement.

49. The World's Record black sea bass caught by Edward Llewellen. It weight 425 lbs. He bought it in alone.

50. Soldiers use gas masks to stop them crying while peeling onions.

Little Girl With Her Doll Sitting In The Ruins Of Her Bombed Home, London, 1940

Women Delivering Ice, 1918

Triumphant dog sitting atop a gun surrounded by gunners, France, during World War 1

Hitler looking at the Gustav Railway gun (1942)

1945 - German POWs weep and sit in disgust as they watch footage shot at a Germanconcentration camp.

Union prisoners receive rations at Fort Sumter in 1864

Two childhood friends unexpectedly reunite on opposite sides of a demonstration in 1972.

Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.

Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950's.

Arnold Schwarzenegger shows off to some elderly women in the 1970's.

Testing of a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll.

A curious Italian woman inspects the kilt of a Scottish soldier near the Coliseum after the liberation of Rome (1944)

US Tanks facing Soviet Union Tanks at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin

Body of frozen Soviet soldier propped up by Finnish fighters to intimidate Soviet troops (1939)

Children Wearing Gas Masks (1941)

Soviet Baltic Fleet sailors with orphan Lucy (1943)

A victim of the Hiroshima atomic explosion (1951)

London, children enjoy themselves at a Christmas Party, in an underground shelter (1940)

A German soldier shares his rations with a Russian mother, 1941This is a good man who has no idea that his role will ultimately make his gesture futile and starve them to death anyway. This photo was taken in 1941 by the photographer of the 291st Division of the Wehrmacht George Gundlach. One of the many, out of the photo album Volkhovs battle. Documents of horror 1941-1942?.

Simone Segouin, the 18 year old French Rsistance fighter, 194418 year old French Rsistance fighter, Simone Segouin, with war name Nicole Minet. She had come from Chartres to help liberate the capital. Paris, August 19, 1944.

SS prison guards forced to load victims of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp into trucks for burial, 1945After the liberation of the camp the dead bodies were buried in mass graves. The SS prison guards were forced by British soldiers to load the bodies into the trucks. Note British troops in background with Sten submachine gun and Lee-Enfield rifles. Photo taken on April 17, 1945, Germany.