1884;

1885;

1887;

1896;

1899;

1899;

1901;

Franz Kafka as a Gymnasium graduate.

1905;

1906 - 1908;

Franz Kafka with the waitress Hansi Julie Szokoll.

(She is cropped out. This picture was higher quality.)

1906;

1906;

1906;

1908;

A passport photograph, taken at the time Kafka began working for the Workers Accident Insurance Company.

1910;

1911 - 1912;

Passport photograph.

1913;

Franz Kafka photographed at an outing.

1914 - 1915;

Passport photograph.

1917;

1920;

Passport photograph.

1921;

1922;

Franz Kafka in front of the apartment building where his family lived.

Oppelt house Prague, Czechoslovakia

1923 - 1924;

Last known photograph of Franz Kafka.

1893;

Franz Kafka with his sisters Valerie Kafka (left) and Gabriele Kafka (center).

1896;

Class photograph. The adults are Frank, the school director and Emil Gschwind, the head master. Kafka is the second in the top row. His friends, from top to bottom, left to right: Paul Kisch, with whom he later planned to pursue German studies, on his right; Oskar Pollak, his closest friend at the time, second in the second row; Rudolf Illowý, who discussed socialism with him, first in the third row; Hugo Bergmann, a Zionist, third in the third row; Ewald Felix Přibram, an atheist and also a very close friend, the last in the third row.

1905 - 1906;

Franz Kafka as a student with his "Madrid uncle", Alfred.

1913;

Amusement-park photograph. Left to right: Franz Kafka, Albert Ehrenstein, Otto Pick, and Lise Kaznelson.

Vienna Prater, Austria-Hungary

September 1913;

Franz Kafka with an unknown man.

Lido di Venezia, Italy

1914;

Franz Kafka with his sister Ottilie Kafka.

Oppelt House Prague, Austria-Hungary

1917;

Franz Kafka and his sister,Ottilie Kafka.

Zürau, Austria-Hungary

1917;

People in the photograph, in order: Mařenka, a housemaid who lived there; Kafka's cousin Irma; his sister Ottla; Julie Kaiser, "the typist Kaiser", his secretary at the insurance company who was visiting him; Franz Kafka.

Zürau, Austria-Hungary

1917;

Franz Kafka and his fiancée, Felice Bauer.

December 1920 - August 1921;

Franz Kafka and guests at the sanatorium where he stayed to treat his tuberculosis.

Tatranské Matliare, Czechoslovakia

1920 - 1921;

1922;

Spindelmühle, Czechoslovakia

February 23rd, 1945;

United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War.

May 2nd 1945;

U.S. World War II soldiers reading an issue of The Stairs and Stripes newspaper with the bold headline "HITLER DEAD" on the front page.

May 2nd 1945;

Soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag.

Inspired by Rosenthal's photo of the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, Soviet officials ordered a similar photo to be taken to symbolise the Soviet victory over Germany.

This propaganda photo was staged and doctored several times to exaggerate the victory and make it appear more dramatic.

1945;

Children and teenagers swimming in the Spree in front of the burned Reichstag.

August 15th 1961;

Conrad Schumann, an East German border patrol officer, jumps over barbed wire into West Germany on the third day after the construction of the Berlin Wall. He escapes in a West German police van.

December 24th, 1961;

A couple from West Berlin waving to family in East Berlin on Christmas day.