Note: I originally posted this on one of my old blogs several years ago.
We'll get to the queen later. First, a preliminary photo story.
When
I was a teenager in Southern California, my mother had an elderly
friend whose husband used to be a European news correspondent during
World War II. For some reason unbeknownst to me, the woman gave my Mom a
packet of about twenty original, unpublished photos of
Adolph Hitler. Most of the photos were taken in Rome during Hitler's
visit with Pope Pius XII (the Pope was nearly as corrupt as Hitler - I
think there was more than one visit).
Anyway, my mother and I were fascinated with the photos because of their rarity and historical value.
My
father - who never valued anything and was notorious for throwing
things away - tossed the packet of photos into a big box of "junk" and
donated it to Goodwill. My Mom and I didn't discover this until weeks
later.
I
still get sick and disgusted every time I think of the Hitler photos. I
might as well mention that the box which went to Goodwill also
contained an autographed copy of the novel 1984 by George Orwell which belonged to me.
I've always loved history and I have had a lifelong passion for old photos. I have a large collection of antique photos.
Just for the record - none of the following photos are from my collection. These were all found via the Internet.
Let's begin with the queen.
Off with her head!!
I suppose queens have the power and privilege
to behead themselves.....
Russian Tsar Nicholas II, letting his daughter
Photo taken at Cape Cod, July, 1888.
I love this photo. It's a classic captured in time.
The ice berg that sunk the Titanic. Red paint is visible on it. This photo was taken on April 15, 1912 - from the German ocean liner S.S. Prinz Adalbert
This photo was taken by the Jesuit Priest Francis Browne. Browne was a passenger on the Titanic but got off in Queenstown, Ireland . (That's not a lifeboat in the lower right - it's just a group of curious onlookers).
When I first saw this photo I thought it was just a "joke". It was a sobering shock to find out it is real.
This is supposedly the very last photo ever taken of Hitler. April 30, 1945.
Taken only hours before his death
(or alleged death - whatever you choose to believe).
An extremely poignant photo
of Anne Frank and her sister Margot, taken in the attic where they hid before being captured by the Nazis.
revisiting the attic in 1960.
He was the only one in the family who survived
imprisonment in the Nazi death camp.
An unrelated but very powerful photo.
This is a menorah in a window on Chanukah
in Kiel, Germany, 1931
defying the Nazi flag outside.
On the verso of the photo is written:
"Judea will live forever"
