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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 ...
On the outbreak of the First World War, Almeric Paget and his first wife, the American socialite Pauline Payne Whitney, offered the services of 50 trained masseuses to the British War Office. [1] The offer was accepted and by November 1914, 50 women had been placed in military hospitals. [1] At this time the demand for physiotherapy (or Massage ...
The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet is a photograph of Jan Rose Kasmir (born in 1950), at that time an American high-school student. This iconic photograph was taken by French photographer Marc Riboud. [1] Riboud photographed Kasmir on 21 October 1967 while taking part with over 100,000 anti-war activists in the National ...
The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phúc Story, the Photograph and the Vietnam War, by Denise Chong, is a 1999 biographical and historical book tracing the life story of Phúc. Chong's historical coverage emphasizes the life, especially the school and family life, of Phúc from before the attack, through convalescence, and into the present time.
A disgraced CIA officer who drugged and sexually abused “numerous women in multiple countries” over 14 years and was found with over 500 disturbing images and videos of his victims was ...
This August, just as schools were getting ready to start another academic year, there was a shocking and disturbing image on the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota: a dumpster and large ...
Ronald L. Haeberle (born c. 1941) is a former United States Army combat photographer best known for the photographs he took of the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968. The photographs were definitive evidence of a massacre, making it impossible for the U.S. Army or government to ignore or cover up. [2] On November 21, 1969, the day after the ...
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" or "enhanced interrogation" was a program of systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and various components of the U.S. Armed Forces at remote sites around the world—including Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Bucharest—authorized by officials of the George W. Bush administration.