/r/TheGrittyPast
A collection of the most gritty, dramatic, and awe-inspiring moments from history.
Welcome to The Gritty Past!
Here, we post the most sobering, tragic, heroic - and often violent - accounts from history. History of any culture and era is welcome here.
Ultimately, the purpose of TheGrittyPast is to humble and inspire, but we encourage any academic discussion that may be the result of a submission. We heavily encourage other fans of history to post their own content - the more the better!
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Rules
Rule 1: All submitted content must be historical.
Submissions should always be historical - be they anecdotal, recordings, or published accounts. By our definition of history, we insist that content refer to events taking place 20 years ago or more. If you are confused as to whether or not your submission would qualify, feel free to contact the mods and we will be happy to weigh in on the issue.
Rule 2: Submissions must be verifiable.
Either link directly to a reliable source that supports every claim in your submission, or cite your sources in the text post. Citations do not necessarily have to follow a specific format, but they should include a title for the source-material, author, page, and year published, when available. If your content is another type of media (video/audio, etc), please leave a comment below your submission that explains it or lists any source material available.
Rule 3: Don't break Reddit's rules.
Violations of the global user agreement will not be tolerated.
Rule 4: Be civil.
Spamming, personal attacks upon, or harassment of a user will not be tolerated.
Rule 5: Factually inaccurate content may be removed.
Factually inaccurate submissions & comments are subject to removal. The user will be notified of this in the event of a submission/comment removal, and is encouraged to resubmit with any necessary corrections.
Rule 6: No pseudo-history or holocaust denial.
The merits of these things are best discussed elsewhere and are inappropriate material for the sub. This is not the place to "wake up the sheeple."
Rule 7: No politics or soap-boxing will be tolerated.
Submissions & comments that are overtly political will be removed; political topics are only acceptable if discussed in a historical context. Comments should discuss a historical topic, not advocate an agenda. This is entirely at the moderators' discretion.
Rule 8: Please post one or more submission highlights if posting links to articles or videos.
If submitting a link, we ask that you provide, in the comments, one or more particularly appropriate lines or passages that showcase the tragic or moving aspects of the event.
If submitting a video link, we ask that you provide selected, transcribed passages in the same manner. Timestamps to said material are required for video links that are more than 3 minutes in length (and encouraged in general).
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Japanese Kamikaze PLANE CRASHING INTO US Destroyer-1944
19:18 UTC
Bombardment of Taku Forts (China) by the Allied fleets -1900
17:56 UTC
English Lancers charging - South African War [1899]
18:44 UTC
Theodore Roosevelt's sons' regiments during WWI 1917-1918
18:06 UTC
Young German Luftschutzhelfer covered in soot following an Allied bombing raid in 1944
03:52 UTC
U.S. Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton near Shuri, Okinawa, in May, 1945.
22:23 UTC
Old Footage- World War II Troop Maneuvers - 1940
16:56 UTC
Old Footage - The Battle of the Yalu - 1904
12:13 UTC
Old Footage - New York Police boat capturing pirates - 1903
22:30 UTC
Old Footage - Woman of the Ghetto bathing [1902]
17:04 UTC
Old Footage - Red cross ambulance in Battlefield [1900]
20:16 UTC
Old Footage - Discharging a Whitehead torpedo in 1900
13:25 UTC
San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906
22:01 UTC
Wedding rings found by U.S. Army soldiers near the Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, May 1945.
22:49 UTC
Rare footage - First Year Anniversary of the Berlin Wall (1962)
12:56 UTC
Rare footage of Soviet experiments to bring back the dead! (1940)
05:47 UTC
The skeletal remains of an Axis soldier on the Eastern Front
20:26 UTC
Scuttled, 61 of her crew dead, and her captain soon to be a suicide, the Nazi pocket battleship ‘Admiral Graf Spee’ lying on the bottom off the mouth of the River Plate after 17 December 1939.
20:04 UTC
On June 11, 1962, three Alcatraz inmates left homemade dummy heads in their beds to fool the guards before launching a daring escape from the infamous island prison, never to be seen again.
15:40 UTC
Business correspondence between American slave traders, 1841, transcription in comments [1650 x 973]
17:55 UTC
The remains of a fallen Soviet soldier in Stalingrad in 1942
18:20 UTC
An NFL tragedy- Detroit Lions wide receiver, Chuck Hughes, suffers a cardiac arrest with 1 minute left in the game. He was pronounced dead shortly after. October 24, 1971.
02:01 UTC
A death squad mercenary takes a lunch break in El Salvador. The photographer said he bought the man a beer and “took three shots before he went ballistic”, 1980s.
17:50 UTC
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, some sailors were trapped on the USS West Virginia and the USS Oklahoma. One group of men survived 16 days, which they tallied on the wall of the storeroom where they were trapped. No one wanted guard duty because of the incessant banging and screaming.
20:58 UTC
“I am going to die a good Catholic and a soldier of the Irish Republic. Lord Jesus give me courage in my last moments. If I had only got told of my sentence, I would have been well prepared before now. Oh mother if I could only see you.” James Fisher(18). First of 81 executions Nov.17,1922 (217x338)
23:31 UTC
Avenging Che Guevara. On May 12, 1973, the German communist militant Monika Ertl was assassinated, who gunned down Che Guevara's "executioner", a brutal right-wing Bolivian colonel named Roberto Pereira.
00:54 UTC
A Finnish patrol discovers a pile of Red Army soldiers, frozen stiff in the snow, 31 January 1940.
16:27 UTC