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SS Waffen Panzer Das Reich Division
This photo, taken by Friedrich Zschäckel in April 1943, shows a Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger tank of the Waffen Panzer das Reich division, then led by Gruppenführer Walter Krüger (1890- 945), while on the Eastern Front during the Second World...

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Remember Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Road sign at the entrance of the martyred village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, where 643 innocent victims perished at the hands of soldiers of the SS Waffen Panzer das Reich division on 10 June 1944 during the Second World War (1939-45...

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Burned-down House in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This photo shows a burned-down house in Oradour-sur-Glane, France. After the massacre of 643 civilians by the SS 2nd panzer das Reich division on 10 June 1944, the whole village was set ablaze. As early as 28 November 1944, the Provisional...

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The Martyred Village of Oradour-sur-Glane
This photo is an aerial view of the martyred village of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges in south-west France where 643 innocent civilians were killed on 10 June 1944 during the Second World War (1939-45). The massacre took place in possible...

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SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe
Helmut Kämpfe (31 july 1909-10 june 1944) was a German officer (Sturmbannführer) in the Waffen SS during the Second World War (1939-1945). He was captured on 9 June while driving alone ahead of his men near the town of Sauviat-sur-Vige, near...

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Reproduction of a Handbill for a Slave Auction, 1769
Reproduction of a handbill advertising a slave auction in Charleston, British Colony of South Carolina, 1769.

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Slave Ship Model
Slave ship model, which "shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. To preserve their profits, captains and sailors tried to limit the deaths of slaves from disease, suicide, and revolts. In the grisly arithmetic of the...

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Olaudah Equiano, Abolitionist Writer, c. 1789
Olaudah Equiano (l. c. 1745-1797), the abolitionist writer, by the English artist Daniel Orme (l. 1766-1837), frontispiece of Equiano's autobiography (published 1789).

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Adolf Hitler & Generals, 1943
A March 1943 photograph of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of Nazi Germany, alongside several of his generals as they study maps of the Eastern Front during the German-Soviet War of the Second World War (1939-45). The generals are (L...

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Sir Toby Coming to the Assistance of Sir Andrew Aguecheek
In Act IV Scene I of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, Sir Toby Belch rushes to the assistance of Sir Andrew Aguecheek, who is being beaten bloody by Sebastian. Oil on panel by Arthur Boyd Houghton, c. 1854. Folger Shakespeare...