historical images
Forum Home > Public : Images > historical imagesAugust 23, 1968, two days after the Warsaw Pact troops entered Czechoslovakia. A terrified and completely naked woman, splashed with red paint, runs down the main street in Košice (Czechoslovakia), followed by an angry crowd. The woman is the wife of a Slovak officer, whom the residents of Košice consider a traitor and collaborator of the occupation forces. This woman was tearing down anti-Soviet posters in the city. Three years later, four men were convicted of attacking the officer's wife.
"She was Russian, and that's why they treated her so harshly," says Vojtech Pastor, who continues to live in Košice after these events. The naked woman's name was Valentina Belas. She was 48 years old and had two children. The poster calling for reprisals contained not only the name of her husband Josef Belas, but also his address. So she tore down the poster to protect her family from provocations, and revenge immediately followed.
For the torn down poster, the men tore off her clothes. But one of the main instigators, Vojtech Pastor, does not consider this a lynching. "She herself was the reason for what happened to her. And when she started speaking Russian, you understand? Besides, when I came there with my friends, she was already naked."
Eyewitnesses said that they wanted to lynch the woman by throwing her under a tram. Pastor and three other participants in the persecution were later tried for this, Pastor was given a solid prison term (12 years). "They couldn't prove it," he said. "Supposedly we wanted to throw her under a tram, but the trams weren't running then." However, there were also those Czechs who stood up for Valentina. They managed to free her from the crowd and hide her in a nearby grocery store, and the police protected her from further attempts to pull her out.
Valentina was born in the Soviet Union, and was brought from there by Josef Belas, an officer in the Czechoslovak People's Army. He had studied at a military school in Russia and, as a colonel, was one of the influential commanders in eastern Slovakia during the invasion.
"She was Russian, and that's why they treated her so harshly," says Vojtech Pastor, who continues to live in Košice after these events. The naked woman's name was Valentina Belas. She was 48 years old and had two children. The poster calling for reprisals contained not only the name of her husband Josef Belas, but also his address. So she tore down the poster to protect her family from provocations, and revenge immediately followed.
For the torn down poster, the men tore off her clothes. But one of the main instigators, Vojtech Pastor, does not consider this a lynching. "She herself was the reason for what happened to her. And when she started speaking Russian, you understand? Besides, when I came there with my friends, she was already naked."
Eyewitnesses said that they wanted to lynch the woman by throwing her under a tram. Pastor and three other participants in the persecution were later tried for this, Pastor was given a solid prison term (12 years). "They couldn't prove it," he said. "Supposedly we wanted to throw her under a tram, but the trams weren't running then." However, there were also those Czechs who stood up for Valentina. They managed to free her from the crowd and hide her in a nearby grocery store, and the police protected her from further attempts to pull her out.
Valentina was born in the Soviet Union, and was brought from there by Josef Belas, an officer in the Czechoslovak People's Army. He had studied at a military school in Russia and, as a colonel, was one of the influential commanders in eastern Slovakia during the invasion.
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
The Seventh Commandment ("Do not commit adultery").
Painting by the artist I. G. Rashevsky, who observed this scene at the end of the 19th century in one of the villages in Chernigov region. In the painting, a woman, stripped naked, is tied by the hands to a man, who is wearing her shirt. The crowd plays "svad' bu"; the procession heads to the tavern, where the disgraced woman is met by her husband.
M. Gorky in his story "Conclusion" describes a similar case, which he witnessed in 1891 in the village of Kandy-bine, 6. Kherson province, Nikolaevsky district. ... For treason... women are stripped naked, smeared with tar, sprinkled with chicken feathers and led down the street like that. Sometimes ingenious husbands or fathers-in-law smear the traitor with molasses and tie her to a tree to be eaten by insects,” writes Gorky.
Painting by the artist I. G. Rashevsky, who observed this scene at the end of the 19th century in one of the villages in Chernigov region. In the painting, a woman, stripped naked, is tied by the hands to a man, who is wearing her shirt. The crowd plays "svad' bu"; the procession heads to the tavern, where the disgraced woman is met by her husband.
M. Gorky in his story "Conclusion" describes a similar case, which he witnessed in 1891 in the village of Kandy-bine, 6. Kherson province, Nikolaevsky district. ... For treason... women are stripped naked, smeared with tar, sprinkled with chicken feathers and led down the street like that. Sometimes ingenious husbands or fathers-in-law smear the traitor with molasses and tie her to a tree to be eaten by insects,” writes Gorky.
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
Michiel van Coxie (1499-1592) - The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/34cxsrgfe9mwh6j/stream+(1).mov/file
Clear footage of the Partisans hanged in Velizh near Smolensk, Russia (14.10. 1941)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/sa7ol98pzkm5o4l/stream4.mov/file
Bonus one I found
Thanks for posting, I guess those were normal people hanged by Germans. Germans portrayed such war crimes as hanging of partizans where in fact those were normal civilians.
Shanghai police shoot communists of both sexes. Circa 1940.
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
Execution of the Narodnaya Volya members. 1969-1972.
Nazarenko T.G.
Nazarenko T.G.
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
epping was born in Amsterdam in 1774, the only child of master painter Johannes Nepping and Cornelia Schram. At the age of 19, she married tobacco retailer Jan Brummelkamp in Amsterdam. Due to debts, they left the capital in 1800 for Loenen (present-day Hilversum), where Brummelkamp again opened a tobacco shop. After that business also failed, they moved to the village of Hall in 1805, where they both worked at a paper mill.
Inheritance
In 1808, Nepping acquired a considerable inheritance, including a house in Wijk bij Duurstede and five thousand guilders in cash. The couple moved there, with Jan buying a paper dyeing shop, which again, also failed. In the meantime, Hester had an extra-marital affair with the city messenger, Gerrit Verkerk. The inheritance ran out, and the couple had to take boarders: the elderly Beerenburg-Vinjole couple and their sister-in-law. The couple paid three thousand guilders for the services, with an additional amount to be paid in case they died.
Murders
Mrs. Beerenburg turned out to be a woman with a nasty attitude, and so Nepping, together with her maid Adriana van Rijswijk, planned to murder the woman. Beerenburg died on 31 August 1811. On 9 November, Hester's elderly father, who lived with her, died as well, followed two days later by her husband Jan. The deaths aroused suspicion, and the bodies were exhumed. The autopsy reports indicated that they had been poisoned with arsenic.[3] Nepping and Van Rijswijk were arrested, as was Verkerk, who had provided the arsenic. In January 1812, they were detained in Amsterdam, where the trial was to take place. All three of them made partial confessions, and the Assizes considered two of the killings proven, handing down death sentences to all three of the accused. From 1810 onwards, because of the annexation of the Netherlands to the First French Empire, French criminal law was applied and an appeal had to be made to the court of cassation in Paris. The court upheld the verdict, and on 15 June 1812, all three were publicly guillotined in front of the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam. It was the only time that a death sentence was applied that way in the city's history[3] and is often considered to be the first execution by guillotine in the Netherlands, although the guillotine was already used in Maastricht in 1798, but Maastricht was back then an integral part of France
Inheritance
In 1808, Nepping acquired a considerable inheritance, including a house in Wijk bij Duurstede and five thousand guilders in cash. The couple moved there, with Jan buying a paper dyeing shop, which again, also failed. In the meantime, Hester had an extra-marital affair with the city messenger, Gerrit Verkerk. The inheritance ran out, and the couple had to take boarders: the elderly Beerenburg-Vinjole couple and their sister-in-law. The couple paid three thousand guilders for the services, with an additional amount to be paid in case they died.
Murders
Mrs. Beerenburg turned out to be a woman with a nasty attitude, and so Nepping, together with her maid Adriana van Rijswijk, planned to murder the woman. Beerenburg died on 31 August 1811. On 9 November, Hester's elderly father, who lived with her, died as well, followed two days later by her husband Jan. The deaths aroused suspicion, and the bodies were exhumed. The autopsy reports indicated that they had been poisoned with arsenic.[3] Nepping and Van Rijswijk were arrested, as was Verkerk, who had provided the arsenic. In January 1812, they were detained in Amsterdam, where the trial was to take place. All three of them made partial confessions, and the Assizes considered two of the killings proven, handing down death sentences to all three of the accused. From 1810 onwards, because of the annexation of the Netherlands to the First French Empire, French criminal law was applied and an appeal had to be made to the court of cassation in Paris. The court upheld the verdict, and on 15 June 1812, all three were publicly guillotined in front of the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam. It was the only time that a death sentence was applied that way in the city's history[3] and is often considered to be the first execution by guillotine in the Netherlands, although the guillotine was already used in Maastricht in 1798, but Maastricht was back then an integral part of France
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
A newspaper report of the execution of Ann Williams. Burned at Gloucester. England April 13 1763 for murdering her husband.
She died hard and screamed terribly when the flames reached her. The fire burnt beneath her with amazing fury but a great part of her could be discovered through the flames for near half an hour. Nothing could be more shocking than to behold, after her legs crumbled and her bowels fell out, the fire flaming between her ribs, and issuing out at her ears, mouth, eyeholes, &c. In short, it was so terrible a sight, that great numbers turned their backs
and screamed out, not being able to look at it.
She died hard and screamed terribly when the flames reached her. The fire burnt beneath her with amazing fury but a great part of her could be discovered through the flames for near half an hour. Nothing could be more shocking than to behold, after her legs crumbled and her bowels fell out, the fire flaming between her ribs, and issuing out at her ears, mouth, eyeholes, &c. In short, it was so terrible a sight, that great numbers turned their backs
and screamed out, not being able to look at it.
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
Girl with an arrow in her leg. Belgian Congo, 1890-1908.
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
On July 17th 1537 Janet, Countess of Glamis was burnt at the stake on Edinburgh's Castlehill after being found guilty of two counts of treason.
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
Satirical prints highlighted the death toll resulting from the Bank’s prosecutions for forgery. Above:
‘The Bank Restriction Note’, created in 1819 by George Cruickshank and William Hone.
‘The Bank Restriction Note’, created in 1819 by George Cruickshank and William Hone.
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
Engraved by Jean Pierre Marie Jazet (French, 1788-1871) after S J E Jones (British, fl.1820-1855). "Le Tribunal de L'Inquisition.", engraving, published mid 19th century in Paris, France. Engraving depicts a group of figures in an interior, one being a young woman held back by two holy men as she is tried by Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (aka The Spanish Inquisition), the woman in a posture of pleading before a group of five men seated at a table and behind a lectern with various tomes and papers scattered about, one man wearing the costuming of a bishop of the Catholic church, with a stone wall to back of scene having barred arched windows and various shackles attached to wall. Inscribed below image lower left "Peint Per S.J.E. Jones", lower right "Grave Per Jazet", and center "Le Tribunal de L'Inquisition".
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
WW2 Goritsy village, Novgorod region
Two teachers, Elena Aleksandrovna Shmagina and Anna Sergeevna Alekseeva, found a wounded infantryman in a rye field. The women hid the soldier and nursed him back to health, but the Nazis tracked them down.
Village residents were herded together to execute the teachers.
Two teachers, Elena Aleksandrovna Shmagina and Anna Sergeevna Alekseeva, found a wounded infantryman in a rye field. The women hid the soldier and nursed him back to health, but the Nazis tracked them down.
Village residents were herded together to execute the teachers.
You need to be logged in to view attachments.
Forum > Public / Images > historical images