When the eyes are more important than words

Phrase 'Eyes - windows to the soul, "is credited with many different historical figures. In the first fraction of a second, meeting people we catch his eye in an attempt to find out who he is and what his intentions are. Eyes can tell more than human speech.
The forum was organized search santabanta historical images where eyes say everything. These are photos of people at their best and worst features in moments of joy, hatred, fear and courage.

22 photos from the web

Madness
Shocked soldiers in the trenches during the Battle of Courcelette in mid-September 1916. This reaction is a fighter after a concussion during the First World War. Helplessness under intense bombardment and prolonged hostilities can manifest in different ways: as a panic flight, inability to talk, sleep, walk or talk.





Defeat
Red Army soldier leads a German soldier captured after the battle of Stalingrad. The Germans were trapped and quickly ran out of supplies of fuel and medicine, and then thousands began dying from frostbite, malnutrition and disease. This is one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare with the number of victims of more than two million people.



Fear
15-year-old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke crying, please captured by the 9th US Army in the commune Rechtenbach, Germany, April 3, 1945. Junior member of the Luftwaffe air command (Flakhelfer) wept on his world collapsed. Father Hans died in 1938 and his mother - in 1944.



Fatigue
Close-up view of detachment emaciated American prisoners lying on the bed after the liberation of the German camps by Allied forces. Photographed in Limburg, Germany, 1945.



Courage
Bibi Aisha, 18 years. According to custom, entitled "Baad" Aisha's father promised her soldier Taliban when she was 12 years old, as compensation for the murder committed by a member of her family. She married at age 14 and was constantly exposed to violence. At age 18, Aisha fled, but police caught her and imprisoned, and then returned to the family. The girl's father gave her again lawful husband, who with three relatives averted Aisha in the mountains to avenge escape. They cut off her nose and ears, and left for dead, but Bibi officers rescued American humanitarian organization. Aisha's disfigured face on the cover of Time magazine has caused a lot of discussion on the topic of threats hanging over each of Afghan women.



Deceptiveness
In the photo 17-year-old Corporal Yukio Araki keeps the puppy around four young boys aged 18, all of the 72nd Corps SynBio. Operator Asahi Shimbun took this picture the day before their departure from the combat air base for kamikaze Bansey. Yukio Araki died at 17 years, participating in a terrorist attack on American ships near Okinawa May 27, 1945. Almost all pilots bombers during the Okinawa campaign was between 17 and 22 years. Not these people imagine fanatical kamikaze pilots.



Innocence
Photo is called "Boy with sapphire eyes." In response to the allegations in Photoshop photographer Vanessa Bristow put another picture of the child with the blue eyes and invariably dark skin.



Adoption
Photos from personal album Einsatzgruppen soldier, on the reverse side of the picture the inscription: "Last Jew of Vinnitsa". It depicts members of the Einsatzgruppen «D», one of whom is about to shoot a Jew kneeling before filling mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941.



Relief
Heart surgeon after 23 hours of successful heart transplant. His assistant is asleep in the corner.



Despair
Women dying from starvation, lying on the pavement in the Warsaw ghetto. Picture taken a German soldier Heinz Joest in Poland in 1941.



Amazement
Harold Whittlesey was born deaf. The photo captured the moment when he first hears the sounds after installing a hearing aid.



Panic
The tragedy that occurred during the semifinal match of the FA Cup between FC "Liverpool" and "Nottingham Forest" April 15, 1989 at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, England. Formed a stampede, which resulted in 96 people killed and 766 more injured.



Lost
In the photo eight Ahmed, son of Syrian rebel smokes and stands guard with a Kalashnikov sample 1947 behind the barricade in Aleppo. He is one of the youngest fighters involved in the civil war in their country.



Hatred
Joseph Goebbels was smiling until he learned that stood before him photographer Alfred Eyzenshtedt was a Jew. This moment is captured in the photograph. "And suddenly he glared at me," - says the photographer.



Alertness
Sharbat Gula was orphaned after a Soviet attack helicopters attacked her village in Afghanistan in the early 1980s. Then she and his brothers, sisters and grandmother went through the mountains in a refugee camp Nasir Bagh on the border with Pakistan in 1984.



Shame
Civilians shaved head Frenchwoman as punishment for what she communicated with the German military. The picture was taken just after the Second World War.



Suffering
Nguyen Thi Li, 9 years old, suffers from a disability, a substance called Agent Orange.
During the Vietnam War, the US military sprayed over Vietnam about 12 million gallons of herbicides to destroy the crops, all vegetation and dense forest in which the forces of the Viet Cong were hiding. Not less than 4.5 million Vietnamese and 2.5 million US veterans exposed pesticides. Although the composition was sprayed 30 years ago, Agent Orange continues to harm the third generation of victims.



World
The photo of the unknown soldier 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vinh Phuc on the runway in South Vietnam. June 18, 1965.



Awe
Children look like kill a dragon in a puppet theater, Paris, 1963



Joy
Liberated Beauty, 1945. "The image of women in the time of its release. She is exhausted, but her face lights up, as if she had never been in prison. "

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