6 Iconic Photos That Fooled The Whole World

Raising the Flag over the Reichstag — Yevgeny Khaldei (1945)

Red Army soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the burning Reichstag. Iconic. Also arranged. The Reichstag had already fallen the day before. Khaldei brought the flag with him from Moscow—he sewed it himself from three red tablecloths. He then had soldiers pose on the roof for the shot, and later added dark smoke in the darkroom because the original sky looked too calm. He also allegedly airbrushed out one soldier’s second wristwatch because it looked like looting.