Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

Germany, 1945

An American soldier, PFC Douglas Page, offers a mocking Nazi salute inside the crumbling ruins of the Berlin Sportpalast, or Sports Palace. The venue, destroyed during an Allied bombing raid in January 1944, was where the Third Reich often held political rallies.

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