On April 28th, 1945, Hannah Reich flew out of Hitler’s bunker, one of the last people to see the Furer alive. She’d landed in the middle of a collapsing Berlin, dodging Soviet artillery to deliver [music] a message that no longer mattered. Now she was leaving, carrying Hitler’s final letters and the knowledge that…
Imagine for one second that the icon you have prayed to all your life, the man whose face is printed on millions of t-shirts as a symbol of peace and justice is actually a ruthless sadist capable of betrayal of biblical proportions. The date is October 1st, 1975. We are in Manila, Philippines, where the…
a recording studio in London. Eric Clapton was holding auditions for a guitarist position in his touring band. Seven guitarists came that day. Clapton remembers none of them. But one of them, Derek Mitchell, 22 years old, remembers everything. He remembers walking into the studio, hands shaking. Remembers setting up his equipment while Clapton watched,…
Imagine a scene that triggers a cognitive dissonance in the brain comparable to an electric shock. The most ferocious, most terrifying predator in the history of sports. Mike Tyson of 1989, a man dynamite who bit off ears and shattered orbital bones, is kneeling in a cramped dressing room, sobbing, burying his tear streaked face…
The executioner places a white hood over a 22year-old woman’s head. Her only word spoken languidly is Schnel quickly. 8 months earlier, she’d been overseeing 30,000 prisoners at Ashvitz Beer Canal. She designed a custom whip covered in cellophane so the blood would wash off more easily. And she forced a surgeon to operate…
Imagine a shot that should have been the cover of the decade. A perfect glossy image symbolizing the union of the two most physically perfect humans on planet Earth, but which in a fraction of a second turned into documentary evidence of a humiliation hidden from the eyes of millions. The calendar reads July 1977….
Imagine the sound that silences an entire street in the loudest and most dangerous neighborhood in New York. It is not a deafening gunshot or the screech of breaks, but a heavy wet splash of dirty water followed by the sudden almost frightening silence of hundreds of people. The calendar reads June 12th, 1967. And…
Late 1960s Hong Kong. And this wasn’t the Hong Kong you see on postcards. This was a Hong Kong where some people wrote the rules with money and others quietly broke them. Bruce Lee entered the corridor of a private club. No cameras, no fans, no autograph signing. That night, he wasn’t called to fight….
April 29th, 1945, Bavaria, Germany. Lieutenant Colonel Felix Sparks climbs over a brick wall and drops into the Dhau concentration camp. He has fought from Sicily to southern France to the heart of Germany. Six campaigns, three years of combat. He has seen friends blown apart in Italy, has lost men on the beaches, has…
The sailor was 230 lb and had been in the Navy for 6 years. He pushed the man in line in front of him without looking at who he was pushing. 6 seconds later, he understood his mistake. Not because anyone hit him, not because anyone threatened him, but because of what happened in the…
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