15 Historical Pictures That Are Really Shocking

4.This Powerful Picture of a Soldier Passing a Flower through the Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall was constructed by East Germany to keep the country's professionals, intellectuals, and workers from going to West Germany. About 2.5 million people left East Germany from the year 1949 to 1961. The wall was taken down in the early 1990s to mark reunification of Germany. 

5.Underwater Nuclear Tests

During the Cold War period, the US and the USSR (now Russia) tested nuclear bombs under water for about eight times. Underwater nuclear explosions are dangerous. They were banned in 1963.

6.A Picture Taken During the Armenian Genocide

Ottoman Empire (Turkish Empire) committed atrocities against the minority Armenian community living in the empire and killed about 1.5 million people from 1915 to 1953.