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The picture for me and unquestionably for many others could not have been more real. The photo was as authentic as the Vietnam War itself. The horror of the Vietnam War recorded by me did not have to be fixed. That terrified little girl is still alive today and has become an eloquent testimony to the authenticity of that photo.
The photographer, shooting from the hip, aimed the camera too high. The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas ...
My Lai MassacreThảm sát Mỹ Lai. / 15.17833°N 108.86944°E / 15.17833; 108.86944. The My Lai massacre ( / ˌmiːˈlaɪ /; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh ...
Situation Room is a photograph taken by Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer, [1] at 4:05 p.m. on May 1, 2011. The photograph shows U.S. president Barack Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room receiving live updates from Operation Neptune Spear, which led to the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin ...
Women's participation in WWI fostered the support and development of the suffrage movement, including in the United States. [7] During the Second World War, women's contributions to industrial labor in factories located on the home front kept society and the military running while the world was in chaos. [2]
Emily Hobhouse (9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, anti-war activist, and pacifist. She is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer and African civilians during the Second Boer War.
Deborah Sampson Gannett, also known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, [1] was born on December 17, 1760, in Plympton, Massachusetts. [2] She disguised herself as a man, and served in the Continental Army under the name Robert Shirtliff – sometimes spelled Shurtleff [2] or Shirtleff [3] – and fought in the American Revolutionary War.
Members of a Latvian SD police unit assemble a group of Jewish women for murder on a beach near Liepāja, December 15, 1941. Location of Liepāja massacres within Latvia. Also known as. Libau, Šķēde, Shkeede, Skeden. Location. Liepāja and vicinity, including Priekule, Aizpute, and Grobiņa, Latvia. 56°28′58″N 21°00′35″E.