Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

Armenian Genocide

A cruel Turkish official teases starving Armenian children with bread in the midst of the genocide. The Armenian genocide was the systematic and mass ethnic cleansing of one million Armenians during WWI. Until WWII, this event was considered the greatest atrocity in history, but Turkey still denies that the deportation of Armenians was genocide or wrongful.

The Beast of Buchenwald

Ilse Koch was known as the Beast of Buchenwald, the sadistic wife of a Buchenwald camp officer who committed heinous and grotesque crimes, such as taking the skin of dead prisoners with interesting tattoos and keeping them as souvenirs. She committed suicide in 1960.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.