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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Belgians' treatment of the people of the Congo during King Leopold's reign.

If a parent worker didn't meet their quota, it was common practice to cut off the hand or foot of one of their children.

RonNumber , Alexander Bassano Report

Final score:

142points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 month ago

Sickening.

50points

BTDubs 1 month ago

Whenever I hear about how advanced certain European countries (The Netherlands, Belgium, etc) are, and how great their prison systems are, or how well they do with welfare, I think of countries like The DRC, or Namibia. It's easy to build a system that benefits one country's population when there is an immense amount of wealth to play with. Countries like Germany, Belgium and Britain, still experience the benefits of the genocides and slavery they committed against indigenous African peoples, while those same indigenous peoples live in poverty as a result.

20points

Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago

The devil of it is that the greatest gains from colonialism went to the wealthy, while the poor often suffered a drop in living and working conditions. When Britain's empire was growing rich from - well, all that stuff - the working classes were being exploited horribly. Not far from me is a preserved cotton mill which has a display showing that way back when, reformers were arguing that the American slaves growing the cotton actually had more rights than the British workers processing the cotton into thread and then cloth. That probably wasn't true, but gives you some idea how bad conditions were for the British workforce.

6points

General Anaesthesia 1 month ago (edited)

King Leopold privately "owned" the region; it was not ruled as a colony of Belgium.

13points

Der Kommissar 1 month ago

He bought it, plundered it, and then sold it to Belgium.

4points

Insomniac 1 month ago

Congolese Genocide. And there are still existing statues honouring Leopold (who knew exactly what was happening and ordered a lot of it himself).

8points

Strahd Ivarius 1 month ago

Congo was the private property of Leopold, a white man can do whatever he wants on his private African property!

4points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 month ago

The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belguim was created by Leopold to house of the stuff he stole... eh... "borrowed" from Congo. His personal collection.

3points

Stinky 1 month ago

OMFG? What is wrong with humans?

3points

PeepPeep the duck 1 month ago

Great book (and thick) - history of Africa. Amazing book

1point

Wolf princess quinn 1 month ago (edited)

Racist pricks. They still are too

1point

Rebecca Ferguson 3 weeks ago

Truly evil.

0points

Wubble 1 month ago

We hate this man. Please don't blame 'the Belgians'

0points

Verena Fiori-Jambor 1 month ago

😔

0points

Heffalump 1 month ago

Worse, the people doing the cutting had a quota to meet, since Leopold assumed that all the workers were lazy, so they cut off hands and feet at random.

-1point

Heras buddy 1 month ago

And remember Europeans called them savages.

-1point

Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago

SOME Europeans called them savages. Other Europeans agiated against that description and called them human beings equal to everyone else.

3points

Java Addict 1 month ago

There's an awful picture of a father holding one of his daughter's severed limbs. They ate her.

-1point

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Trail of Tears.

Zapkin:

I live in Memphis, and there are signs around that say ‘Path of the Historic Trail of Tears.’ As a kid, I didn’t think much of it, but now I can’t help but think about how those people were going through one of the worst things imaginable, carrying what little they had, with hundreds of miles to go—and now I drive on that path to get to Target. We really don’t do enough educating on the topic here in the states.

HippoSame8477 , Cculber007 Report

Final score:

142points

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SCamp 1 month ago

Hate to say it but even worse here in Australia regarding recognition of massacres of Indigenous Australians. The education aspect has improved but it’s generally still woefully short of where it should be. As for public monuments like this? Nup. At least the US has that

56points

Altruistic_Seat_6644 , vasse nicolas,antoine / Flickr Report

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The atrocities carried out by the Imperial Army before and during WW2. Truly horrific, inhumane s**t.

Yes, Americans, the Russians, and the British did some ghoulish s**t, but Japan’s Imperial Army did next level cruelty.

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) were responsible for a multitude of war crimes leading to millions of deaths. War crimes ranged from sexual slavery and massacres to human experimentation, torture, starvation, and forced labor, all either directly committed or condoned by the Japanese military and government.

Evidence of these crimes, including oral testimonies and written records such as diaries and war journals, has been provided by Japanese veterans.

Final score:

121points

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SCamp 1 month ago

If you want more detail on this and I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t, look up The Rape of Nanking (or Nanjing) and also Unit 731 operating in Harbin. The Japanese really let themselves down shockingly in China and people should know about it

63points

King_Kea , Jorge Láscar / Flickr Report

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived I'd argue many people don't know about the Holodomor. Hell, I didn't until I started learning about it after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. I'm not a major history buff and I'm on the (literal) opposite side of the planet, which is probably why I didn't know about it, but still... Death toll estimated between 3.5-7 million (some estimates as high as 11) with most settling around the 3.9 million mark. That's the number of Ukrainian people who died in the Holodomor. It was a man-made famine in 1930-1933. Genocide carried out by Stalin on the Ukrainian people.

Final score:

120points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

I am a history buff and that was Stalin's effort to "Russify" the population. He wanted to empty the land so good RUSSIAN people could occupy the newly empty land. His own version of Hitler's Lebensraum. Stalin did it first though. Now Putin is trying that same trick again.

82points

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Unit 731. The majority of what we know about hypothermia comes from the cruelty of Japanese scientist to POWs at this place during WW2.

Poultry_Master123 , 松岡明芳 Report

Final score:

96points

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 month ago

Worst still, nobody was punished by it. While some Nazi doctors were trialed and executed, chief surgeon Shiro-Ishi was given immunity by the US government. He died of natural causes, respected and in peace, converted to Christianity.

46points

strong_schlong , Kelly Michals / Flickr Report

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Reading about the Sand Creek massacre in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee forever changed my perspective on the American West. The details are absolutely horrific especially what happened to the children.

Final score:

88points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

That's history that needs to be taught in school no matter how uncomfortable it is. The kids need to know about these things to prevent them from happening again.

81points

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The sinking of the SS Princess Alice

The ship sank in September 1878 in the River Thames 4 minutes after colliding with another ship. Around 600-700 passengers are thought to have died and a diver reported seeing masses of bodies jammed together still standing upright in the doorways.

What made this sinking particularly horrible was that the ship sank in an area where 75 million gallons of raw sewage had been released into the river an hour earlier. The water was also polluted by untreated waste coming from nearby chemical factories.

A chemist described the water as being “Two continuous columns of decomposed fermenting sewage, hissing like soda water with baneful gases, so black that the water is stained for miles and discharging a corrupt charnel-house odour”

16 passengers who had been rescued subsequently died within 2 weeks after accidentally ingesting the water. Many of the passengers couldn’t swim and were dragged under by the weight of their heavy woollen clothing.

Bodies that were recovered were covered in slime that was difficult to clean off and the corpses rotted extremely fast due to the polluted river water.

Drowning is awful enough but drowning in a river of raw sewage is a whole other level of horrible….

queyikes , Unknown author Report

Final score:

88points

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Zoey Bear 1 month ago

Oh my hell.

26points

enter_yourname , David Stanley / Flickr Report

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Armenian genocide. Turkish military would march Armenians to Syria, and put them in fenced sections of desert with no food, water, or shelter. The only way to get mercy was to try to break out, because they would shoot you and that's quicker.

Final score:

88points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 month ago

I think -- THINK -- I could have made that choice. What we do to each other.

26points

FourWhiteBars , Wally Gobetz / Flickr Report

#10

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Honestly, I recently spent some time learning more details about the September 11th attacks than I had learned from the news as a kid. This might not be uncommon knowledge, and maybe even a “yeah duh” from most people, but I don’t think I had ever realized the amount of human body parts that littered the streets around the towers.

There was a moment when first responders realized the periodic bangs they were hearing were jumpers hitting the ground. Eye witnesses said the bodies would explode into pink mist upon contact, and one fire fighter was even k*lled by a falling body. First responders were begging people to stop jumping, that they were coming to save them… not realizing that they wouldn’t be able to reach them, and that the buildings would soon collapse.

Final score:

81points

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 month ago

I remember seeing that live on television. Jesus....

57points

#11

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The aftermath of Katrina in and around New Orleans. I was down there twice immediately after the storm and the stench from dead bodies was almost overwhelming.

My sister and BIL bought a house on the other side of lake pontchartrain a few months later and there were STILL bodies floating up on the north shore of the lake.

thetruckboy , U.S. Coast Guard Report

Final score:

70points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

One of my favorite Top Gear episodes featured the crew buying cars in Florida and driving to New Orleans. The premise was buying a car in one place and selling it in another is cheaper than renting a car. Katrina happened while they were filming so the whole original premise was sunk. They donated their cars to a relief group and a lot of money to help as well.

47points

#12

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived New London, TX school explosion.

"The force of the explosion was so great that a two-ton concrete block was thrown clear off the building and crushed a 1936 Chevrolet parked 200 feet away."

Why does the gas company add that odd smell to the natural gas supply???? Holy c**p!!! THIS is why.

GloveBatBall Report

Final score:

70points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

Methyl-Mercaptan. One of the smelliest substances in the world.

22points

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#13

The Death chambers in Germany. I lived in Germany for a few years. You know how we all heard of the nazi's gassing Jews. I took a tour to one of these places. As I got of the bus I was assaulted my whole body tightened up goose bumps appeared my brain was screaming evil walks here. I did not go in. I sat on the bus and cried to myself.

Final score:

70points

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JoNo 1 month ago

When I visited a concentration camp, there was an old man wearing a suit and leaning on a walking stick, standing near the gas chambers. We were told how he had vowed that, if he lived through it, he would go to there every day in honour of those who didn't make it - his loved ones, his friends, and strangers who endured hell and died. That made me cry, and I still think of his dedication almost 30 years later. He would now be reunited with them.

60points

#14

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The sinking of the Britannic. Though she sunk with significantly fewer casualties than her sister ship Titanic, many of the deaths were due to the fact that the lifeboats were prematurely launched while the ship was still moving, which resulted in some of the lifeboats being sucked into the propellers, instantly obliterating the passengers on them.

Tarkus_Edge , Allan C. Green Report

Final score:

65points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 month ago

I haven't read nearly as much of the Brittanic as the Titanic. Why did one become common knowledge, but not the other? Odd how some things just grab our consciousness.

26points

Creme_Bru-Doggs , Chokniti Khongchum / Pexels Report

#15

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Syphilis.

When it first hit Europe it was nothing like the disease we know now.

It was fast-acting and MADE PEOPLE'S FACES ROT OFF (yes I do believe there are woodcuts of this).

As you might imagine, this was a bad transmission strategy long term for syphilis, so it eventually evolved into the decades-long misery we know today.

Final score:

64points

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G A 1 month ago

Woodcuts? There's photos. And they are pitiful. Don't look them up. One of a 5 year old boy looking like a demon haunts me years later.

17points

#16

WWII in Croatia. Ustashe commited crimes so gruesome that even the N*zis were shocked.

MiauMiauMoon Report

Final score:

59points

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StarCrossedFriday 1 month ago

What is it about war that turns some people into collective absolute evil? I saw a documentary where they interviewed soldiers 60 years after WWII, and even they couldn’t quite believe the things they’d done themselves back then.

33points

#17

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Great Stink of 1858 in London. The River Thames was so polluted with untreated human waste and industrial runoff that the city was overwhelmed by a horrific stench during a heatwave. It was so bad that Parliament had to be suspended, and the situation was considered a public health crisis. It wasn’t just gross, it contributed to outbreaks of cholera and other diseases.

LonelyWanderess , Bit Cloud Report

Final score:

59points

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G A 1 month ago (edited)

Sir Joseph Bazalgette saved London with his sewer system, still used today. He built it not just for then but thought about the future. Nowadays, it's the attitude of "eff it, that'll do" planned obsolescence.

33points

#18

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Before we had anesthetic and abundant pain k*llers, field surgery wells absolutely horrific. Here's a bottle of alcohol, we're going to saw your leg off now.

Also, most people doing the work were far from qualified to do the work, they were just slightly better than the next guy in the platoon. I remember reading a first person account of a Civil War nurse who was tasked with curing pneumonia by removing the fluid from a man's lungs. She was given explicit direction based on "I guess this is how the body works". The process was to heat up the rim of a metal rimmed shot glass, sear his chest, and pop the resulting blister, thus removing the water from his body. This was done twice an hour. He died 3 days into the removal, likely a combination of dehydration and infection.

Atomic_ad , Wellcome Collection Report

Final score:

58points

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Alvia Vseobecna 1 month ago

horrible

10points

#19

Pretty much the entire Vietnam war. Open pits of burning bodies, and people being blown apart and impaled everywhere.

SurpriseOk3747 Report

Final score:

57points

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G A 1 month ago

Thank f**k the UK stayed out of that particular clusterfuck.

27points

Marxbrosburner , Thirdman / Pexels Report

#20

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Not really history, as both are still relevant, but they are a lot less so these days:

Ebola and rabies. What they do to a person is nightmare fuel.

hamburgersocks:

Rabies k*lls you by making your muscles spasm so hard you break your own back... if the hydrophobia doesn't dehydrate you first.
Still no cure if it's caught too late. Don't get bit, folks.

rricenator:
The stories of Ebola remind me of Poe, The Masque of the Red Death.

Final score:

56points

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Insomniac 1 month ago

I got bit by a feral cat from an area where rabies was known. They couldn't find the cat. So I had to choose if I wanted to go through the post-exposure rabies shot protocol. I had just come off major surgery and was battling complications from that, so we knew it was going to be rough on my body and mental health. I watched a video on YouTube of a guy dying from rabies. I did the protocol, which took over a month. I was horribly sick and miserable and crazy and my boyfriend left me because he got tired of me being sick, but I am alive. And within the year, they found two feral cats in that area with rabies. It sucks, but get the shots if you've possibly been exposed, folks. I don't think it would be as hard on a healthy person, but UGH.

51points

#21

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived So grizzly and gross is this:

The bubonic plague, often referred to as the Black Death, is one of the most infamous pandemics in history. It ravaged Europe, Asia, and North Africa during the 14th century, peaking between 1347 and 1351. The plague was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which was typically spread by fleas that lived on rats. The pandemic k*lled an estimated 75 to 200 million people, wiping out between 30-60% of Europe’s population.

The disease manifested in three forms: bubonic (affecting the lymph nodes), septicemic (infecting the bloodstream), and pneumonic (infecting the lungs). The bubonic form was characterized by painful, swollen lymph nodes (called buboes), fever, and skin turning black due to gangrene, giving rise to the name “Black Death.”

This pandemic had profound social, economic, and cultural effects. Labor shortages following the mass deaths led to significant social upheavals, including changes in feudalism, a rise in wages, and a shift in land ownership patterns. It also triggered a wave of religious movements and scapegoating, with many minorities, especially Jews, being wrongly blamed for the plague.

Smaller outbreaks of the plague have occurred since then, but none reached the same devastating scale as the 14th-century pandemic. Modern medicine, particularly antibiotics, can now treat plague infections effectively if caught early.

Imagine the smell alone.

Isaandog , Paulus Fürst Excud Report

Final score:

55points

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David Paterson 1 month ago

It's still around. In Madagascar, sub-Saharan Africa, and Arizona. When it develops antibiotic resistance, it'll make Covid look like a nonevent.

31points

#22

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Donner Party. Children choosing who dies to suck the marrow from the bones of their parents.
Randomizing flesh so that parents wouldn't know that they were eating their own children.
It was nuts.

wookiee42:

Yeah, just radomly ran into a mention of the Donner Party the other day and read the wikipedia. I thought it was a wagon train got stuck in the mountains and they eventually were forced to eat each other.
They survived for way longer than I thought and wayyyy more crazy stuff happened

Ziggysan , fishin widow / flickr Report

Final score:

53points

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TheNewJenBrady 1 month ago

Do not read that Wikipedia page if you want to sleep. I stumbled into it one late night, and it is absolutely devastating and horrific what they went through.

25points

#23

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The American Civil War in general. Old school war tactics meeting modern warfare sprinkled with pre germ theory medicine practices resulted in quite the s**t show.

megatron0539 , pickpik Report

Final score:

49points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

And yes, it WAS about slavery. Take your Lost Cause, State's Rights BS and cry into your racist flag. It was about slavery. It was always about slavery. It will continue to be about slavery until the USA is no longer a country.

88points

#24

Look up the cannabilism during Stalingrad.

westwebwarlord:

Most people don’t talk about cannibalism during sieges. It starts with house pets when food runs out and leads to picking at your dead friends. War is hell.

t90fan Report

Final score:

48points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

I think OP is talking about LENINGRAD not Stalingrad. It was way worse in Leningrad. Stalingrad was over in less than a year. Leningrad went on for three years.

24points

#25

The sand creek massacre and the following battle. In the massacre, the colonists k*lled women and children, up to ripping unborn babies out of their mothers and tearing ovaries from women to wear proudly on their persons. A horrifying event that should never have occurred.

In the following battle, the natives took revenge by grabbing the colonists by THEIR genitalia and twisting and jerking them around until said member came free from their body. Needless to say, war is gruesome and you should never mess with your enemies families lest you find yourself bleeding out of a delicate place.

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43points

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Mike F 1 month ago

The very acts that got the native Americans branded "godless savages" were performed on the natives and therefore taught to them.

37points

#26

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) - With 15 to 45 million people dead - kicked off by Great Leap Forward. Mao ignored technical experts and economic principles and established agricultural collectives, relying on peasants to figure out industrialization. The government tried to cover up conditions, which only made things worse.

sjcjeremy , Unknown author Report

Final score:

41points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

Mao was a complete POS and if I lived in China, I'd be headed to jail just for saying that.

32points

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#27

Arab slave trade, they had the custom of castrating male slaves, about 60% of boys bled to death during this process. Mostly due to eunichs selling for more.

Like, slavery is bad enough, do you need to castrate them as well?!

Robert_Grave Report

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40points

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G A 1 month ago

Made them grow bigger and stronger, more docile and so they wouldn't molest their harem.

14points

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#28

I had always read about how Jack the Ripper mutilated his victims but it wasn't until I saw the photo of one them and realised how f****d up it actually was.

Final score:

38points

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G A 1 month ago

What was left of Mary Kelly is barely discernable as a human being.

18points

Hopeful_Relative_494 , William Cho / Flickr Report

#29

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived All of Genghis Khan invasions.

From memory, theirs the capturing and then skinning and then using fat as incendiary to launch and burn the enemies forts down.

Another one where they dug a huge hole and put the prisoners of war in this hole, then put a board on top and continued to use it as a bridge/road until they all died.

There are more but listening to Dan Carlin episodes covering it are epic.

Final score:

38points

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Mr.Li 1 month ago

Please dont hate me for this: Ghengis Khan alllowed his people religious freedom. They were allowed to whorship whatever god/deity the wanted, as long as they pray for the great khans victory. He has also freed a complete land by telling the oppressed muslim subjects they were allowed to practice the islam without fear of punishment. Which leads them to revolt against their oppressors. He succesfully conquered this land within months. The lord of this land, who oppressed the muslims were caught and lynched by them, when he tried to flee that land.

35points

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#30

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Eastern Front of WW2. It was basically free reign to do any horrific thing they could come up with. I took a WW2 history class. The Holocaust as a whole was unprecedented in its horror. But the "Holocaust by Bullets" and the way they developed mobile gassing units as a precursor to the mass gas chambers was insane.

All the while the occupying forces were r*ping, pillaging, m*rdering, torturing, starving and basically enslaving people. Racially acceptable Women often made arrangements with n*zis to serve as their private girlfriends for food and protection from the other n*zis. Brothels with racially acceptable women were so overrun that the n*zis developed mobile and mass testing centers for syphilis I believe. They required soldiers get tested regularly and promoted it as part of being a good aryan soldier. Of course all the other STDS were there as well. The women were forced in a lot of cases. Keep in mind these guys were piling up bodies like sardines as they're r*ping and torturing. Truly the apocalypse.

rileyescobar1994 , picryl Report

Final score:

37points

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Marianne 1 month ago

Why is the term "Nazi" censored? It's not a term you're not supposed to use for a person. If we stop using words like this, we will have to stop talking about the Holocaust and when we stop doing that, we will forget about history and we will have to repeat it.

29points

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#31

Basically anytime in history a city was sieged. Go ahead. Pick one.

Sieging a city is a f*****g SLOG for anyone involved. One hand, you have to chill outside of a castle for a loooong time in s**t conditions while making sure your troops are (barely) fed and (terribly) paid. Meanwhile the enemy is taking potshots at you and engaging in sorties and skirmishes to whittle you down. You're gonna lose some homies. Them's the shakes. Be it from battle, hunger, exhaustion, or most likely disease.

Another hand, you have the besieged in question. You're surrounded by enemies, you have a *very* finite and rapidly dwindling stock of food, and help could be a day or a year away for all you know. If it's coming at all. And god forbid, if the enemy breaks into your city...

Which means those tired, pissed off, and bitter soldiers are going to finally let loose. Word of advice: Don't be a woman or a girl if this happens.

So yeah, sieges suck a*s. There's a reason Sun Tzu said to avoid them at all costs.

Jack-of-Hearts-7 Report

Final score:

19points

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G A 1 month ago

Wait til they dig under the walls, set live pigs on fire and send them down the tunnels to start more fires to damage the foundations and open to attack. Bacon smell not so appealing now....

7points

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#32

The mutiny on the HMS Bounty.

Although Captain Bligh survived by navigating his life boat 4,000 miles to Indonesia, it is the mutinous crew that suffered most.

They settled on the un-inhabited Pitcairn islands, which is basically located in the swirling eye of the Pacific storm systems. Most died from fighting one another. The island is inhabited by their descendants today, with two main families that dont talk to each other due to some long running feud. It is supplied 4 times a year by boat from New Zealand.

Due to rampant sexual ab*se of minors, when they attempted to attract new residents at one point, they had to stipulate no families with kids would be accepted onto the island.

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17points

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G A 1 month ago

Bunch of criminal inbred pedos. Best left to die out. They are still doing it.

15points

#33

The way that the Chernobyl TV show presents the effects of acute radiation poisoning is probably the most accurate representation in media. However, there have been much worse cases of radiation exposure.

The largest radiation dose ever received in a single event was by Hiroshi Ouchi who in critically accident was splashed with liquid uranium fuel and received an estimated dose of 17 Sv. To put this into perspective, the lethal dose is 5 Sv. He was kept alive for 83 days to study the effects of extreme radiation on the body despite him begging medical staff to let him die!

Look it up at your own peril! Some of the details are incredibly gruesome!

ben0074 Report

Final score:

15points

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G A 1 month ago

This gets debunked every single time. It was NOT for medical reasons. It was his FAMILY that wanted him kept alive against medical advice.

18points

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#34

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The French Revolution. For some context, the “good guys” who just wanted democracy k*lled Marie Antoinette’s best friend and put her head on a pike and paraded it around her window. They locked up the whole family for four years before doing anything with them, while the city was destroyed around them. They had daily executions of elites in the literal street.

Next_Distribution409 , Unidentified painter Report

Final score:

14points

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 month ago

Imagine, just imagine, having to see your children die of starvation, and some rich a**hole telling you it is the will of God or the Natural Order of things. And then you see yourself in charge. Every revolution descends into chaos. That's what revolutions are: violent, radical, sudden changes in the status quo. And BTW, the people who killed Princess de Lambelle (Marie Antoinette's best friend) were not the "good guys who wanted democracy". Those killings were made by rabble, uneducated peasants who had been starving for months. The A la lanterne trials (the song Gojira sang at the Olympics is about those) were result of conspiracies made by agitators like Marat. The Reign of Terror and the executions with the guillotine were made, in part, to control this chaos.

25points

#35

Tulsa Race Massacre.

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14points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

AKA Black Wall Street.

5points

#36

Helene hitting NC. There’s still people/bodies unaccounted for, locations yet to be fully observed. Places, people, communities buried under tons of mud, debris…hell, buried under each other.

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Final score:

14points

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Big Chungus 1 month ago

That happened to us (in Sw Florida) during Hurricane Ian. I used to go to a bar down by the beach that was fun and cute, during Ian the water was over the entire building. It was so sad to see.

1point

#37

Sylvia Likens. Because how could I be a human and share a species with such monsters.

kimberequinox:

This case haunts me to this day. That poor girl..

cerebral_grooves Report

Final score:

12points

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SirWriteALot 1 month ago

I should not have read the wikipedia page. Wtf ...

4points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#38

1996 Mt. Everest Disaster

Complete clusterf*ck all around. Everything that leads up to it should have been a glaring red flag, and people actually accountable are among the dead.

For more:
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer - author was a part of the group that summited earlier and barely made it back to camp in the blizzard

Everest (1998, IMAX)
The documentary team was there when it happened and joined the rescue effort

Meanwhile Everest (2015) is a piece of s**t, as it goes out of its way to paint the two men most responsible for all this as heroes.

BowserX10 Report

Final score:

12points

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Insomniac 1 month ago

They should shut Everest down and not allow any more people to climb it. The amount of garbage on that mountain is horrifying. Plus the dead bodies. And Sherpas die every year rescuing arrogant eejits who got in over their heads. Then again, I think mountain climbing should only be done Alpine style... you take out what you bring in. If you can't do it without supplemental oxygen, you don't go. Leave it to the few elites who are actually fit enough.

12points

#39

In 1914, National Guard troops were responding to a Miner strike in Ludlow, Colorado. They set up a machinegun position on a bluff overlooking the miner's camp. At some point a firefight broke out and the guardsmen opened fire on the camp with the machinegun. This kicked off a multiday battle between the miner's and the guardsmen.

During the chaos, women and children fled to cellars underneath the camp for protection. At night fall, the guardsmen soaked the tents in kerosene and set them ablaze. After the fire went out, one cellar revealed there were 11 children and two women that had suffocated and been burned during the fire. A total of 25 people were k*lled in what became known as the Ludlow Massacre.

>*In retaliation for the massacre, miners attacked antiunion town officials, strikebreakers, and the mines, taking control of an area about 50 miles long and 5 miles wide. As many as 50 people died during the reaction to the Ludlow Massacre. Fearing a further escalation of violence, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent in federal troops to restore order. Unlike the National Guard, the federal troops were impartial and kept strikebreakers out of the coal mines. The strike ended on December 10, 1914. While the workers got little in the way of tangible benefits from their strike, the UMWA gained 4,000 new members.*

JaySierra86 Report

Final score:

12points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

Learned this one from Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States"

2points

“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

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#40

George Washington's death.

The Dollop has a great episode on it.

Dude got drained of blood.. stuck in the snow like a popsicle.. then (almost) refilled with sheep blood in attempt to bring him back to life.

wagadugo Report

Final score:

12points

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G A 1 month ago

Geo Washington's Zombie that goes "Baa!" would have been funny as f**k, tho.

11points

lannister80 , Kennedy Space Center Report

#41

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion:

We are certain that the crew capsule part of the shuttle survived the explosion intact, and that the astronauts on board were alive for most or all of the following:

The crew capsule continued upward on a ballistic trajectory after the shuttle disintegrated, then plummeted toward the ocean at terminal velocity and anyone who is still alive died from the sudden deceleration (splat) when they hit the surface of the ocean, which is basically like hitting concrete when you're going that fast.

>The crew cabin tore loose at 45,000 feet, arced upward to about 65,000 feet, and then began a 2-minute, 45-second plunge to the Atlantic Ocean.

Final score:

11points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

Watched it happen live on TV in 1st grade.

9points

#42

The scene after Travis the chimp mauled the lady in CT.

mibonitaconejito:

Omg yes. The audio was so disturbing it gave me nightmares but the scene afterward was....👀

Specialist-Funny-926:

I'm pretty sure one of the police officers that responded to the incident had to resign afterwards due to PTSD. I think it was one of the officers that shot Travis. To my knowledge, Travis charged the officer, the officer shot Travis, Travis kept coming at the officer and ripped the door off the patrol vehicle, the officer then shot Travis again.

Party-Welder3777 Report

Final score:

11points

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G A 1 month ago

Which is why chimps should never be pets. It's like giving a toddler Hulk powers.

17points

#43

Great question. I loved the first season of The Terror about the mystery of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror that disappeared seeking the northwest passage through the arctic. Recently there was an article that attributed the disappearances to cannibalism.

Petulantraven Report

Final score:

10points

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G A 1 month ago

The cannibalism was well known but it was the lead poisoning from the experimental canned food that did a lot in or made them go mad.

10points

#44

30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment had wayyyyy worse s**t than what the Evan Peters Netflix show portrayed.

AddictedToDurags Report

Final score:

9points

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G A 1 month ago

Cos it was too disturbing to show even on a fictional show, of course.

4points

Illustrious_King_116 Report

#45

The John Wayne Gacy case. There are many things that point towards Gacy not only having accomplices, but likely being involved in a piece of the same snuff film ring that Dean Corll participated in. While the official account of the case states that Gacy acted alone, there is at least one m*rder where Gacy is confirmed to have been out of town at the time, and several more where Gacy claimed to have been out of town, but did not have any reliable sources for authorities to verify that.

bucket_overlord Report

Final score:

9points

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G A 1 month ago

Surprised he didn't name names for prison privileges

2points

#46

To wrestle control from the Colhuan king the Mayan leadership first built a grand temple to their god Xipe Totec and offered the extremely honored standard priestess role to the kings daughter. To celebrate the completion of the temple the Mayans hosted the king for a great event and feast. After feasting the Mayans guided their host to go visit his daughter at the alter, but when they got there I can only imagine the pure horror the king felt seeing his still barely living daughter strung up above her recently removed skin as presentations to their god. They then sacrificed his son in front of of him and yea f*****g brutal lmk.

Final score:

9points

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G A 1 month ago

Mayans were a death obsessed cult

7points

#47

Pickton farm.

Square-Ad-1078 Report

Final score:

5points

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Insomniac 1 month ago

There were SO MANY glaring red flags about that place for so many years. The authorities ignored it all. A lot were probably paid off by the family. All of them were psychos, not just the guy who was eventually caught.

3points

#48

Hollywood.

There's so much we still don't know, it's like trying to explore the entire Ocean.

docobv77 Report

Final score:

4points

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G A 1 month ago

Money talks

1point

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 month ago

Don't read these. I feel so sick now.

8points

Margot Plummer 4 weeks ago

Too late.

0points

Skogsrået 1 month ago

The spanish inquisition and the witch huntings all over Europe.

5points

Insomniac 1 month ago

The Alexandru Radita case in Calgary, Alberta. Yes, just one boy, but the horror he lived.... His parents were absolute psychopaths. And there were so many chances to save him had someone in the medical, education, or social services sector thought to push for some investigation.

4points

Julia H 1 month ago

Unfortunately history keeps repeating itself with k8ds who should be protected but are left with parents who would happily torture and starve them. Take the Turpin kids. Then revictimized (rap3d) in foster care.

4points

Mimi M 1 month ago

Just what we come to BP for. NOT.

3points

I need a nap. 1 month ago

I read all of them, but I didn’t do any other research. It’s 12:20 for me, and I want to get some sleep. But tomorrow you know I’m visiting the Wikipedia pages of these so I can see what ACTUALLY happened.

3points

Insomniac 1 month ago

A lot of these are relatively accurate. Surprisingly so.

0points

Stardust she/her 1 month ago

Jallianwala baag tragedy was horrible. Only one exit to leave from and hundreds of people were in that enclosed space when Dyer opened fire and killed many innocent people.

3points

90HD 1 month ago

Ruby Ridge was terrible. Feds lied about some random homesteader, entrapped him into commiting a crime, raided his house, shot his dog, son, and unarmed wife holding her baby.

2points

Sapna Sarfare 1 month ago

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and the Bengal Famine.. horrible Also 26/11 Mumbai attacks.. it still shakes Mumbai

2points

Patrick Linnen 1 month ago

Fort Pillow; After the fight, Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest had his troops massacre the Union troops, half of which were African-American. From the wiki page, "Only 58 (around 20%) black soldiers were taken prisoner, whereas 168 (about 60%) white soldiers were taken prisoner. Not all of the prisoners who were shot were black; Major Bradford was apparently among those shot after surrendering."

1point

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 month ago

Surprised no one mentioned that kid who fancied himself a "bear whisperer".... Till it ate him and his girlfriend... You want something that'll keep you up at night, read the Wikipedia article on HIM. Oi.

1point

G A 1 month ago

He wasn't a kid by any means. He was a very naive man who thought he was friends with starving bears who got himself, his girlfriend and the bear responsible killed due to his own stupidity.

5points

LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago

Not a "kid". A grown adult. He was 46 years old.

3points

Nicole Weymann 1 month ago

Not exactly a "history moment", but surely gross.

0points

Chloe 1 month ago

Timothy Treadwell

0points

Mike F 1 month ago

All in all, this was pretty good.

1point

Julia H 1 month ago

Agreed. It is painful to examine the past atrocities of people who share a genome. We can't just skip over them because it's uncomfortable.

2points

Paulina 1 month ago

And my "favorite" is missing again, as in every history piece ever :( Look up Bengal Famine of 1943 - it's a manmade disaster that took at least 3 MILLION people. In India during WWW2, British rulers decided to take away food from people and send it to their white soldiers. As a result, horrific amount of people died of starvation. And yet, no one talks about it. Ever. I highly recommend BBC podcast called "3 million" - despite being British, it is quite comprehensive account of the disaster.

0points

Insomniac 4 weeks ago

Was that the one where White administrators in India were forbidden to feed the starving ppl out of their own pockets?

0points

mtn.dew.13 1 month ago

byford dolphin

0points

Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 1 month ago (edited)

Well, that was unrelentingly grim. In fairness, the title was accurate.

0points

Mimi M 1 month ago

BP often puts the worst on the headline, so we all have to read it even if we don't want to click on the post. No thanks, BP.

0points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 month ago

Don't read these. I feel so sick now.

8points

Margot Plummer 4 weeks ago

Too late.

0points

Skogsrået 1 month ago

The spanish inquisition and the witch huntings all over Europe.

5points

Insomniac 1 month ago

4points

Julia H 1 month ago

4points

Mimi M 1 month ago

Just what we come to BP for. NOT.

3points

I need a nap. 1 month ago

3points

Insomniac 1 month ago

A lot of these are relatively accurate. Surprisingly so.

0points

Stardust she/her 1 month ago

Jallianwala baag tragedy was horrible. Only one exit to leave from and hundreds of people were in that enclosed space when Dyer opened fire and killed many innocent people.

3points

90HD 1 month ago

Ruby Ridge was terrible. Feds lied about some random homesteader, entrapped him into commiting a crime, raided his house, shot his dog, son, and unarmed wife holding her baby.

2points

Sapna Sarfare 1 month ago

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and the Bengal Famine.. horrible Also 26/11 Mumbai attacks.. it still shakes Mumbai

2points

Patrick Linnen 1 month ago

1point

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 month ago

1point

G A 1 month ago

He wasn't a kid by any means. He was a very naive man who thought he was friends with starving bears who got himself, his girlfriend and the bear responsible killed due to his own stupidity.

5points

LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago

Not a "kid". A grown adult. He was 46 years old.

3points

Nicole Weymann 1 month ago

Not exactly a "history moment", but surely gross.

0points

Chloe 1 month ago

Timothy Treadwell

0points

Mike F 1 month ago

All in all, this was pretty good.

1point

Julia H 1 month ago

Agreed. It is painful to examine the past atrocities of people who share a genome. We can't just skip over them because it's uncomfortable.

2points

Paulina 1 month ago

0points

Insomniac 4 weeks ago

Was that the one where White administrators in India were forbidden to feed the starving ppl out of their own pockets?

0points