Images

Execution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato Minnesota, December 25, 1862. Print by Buffalo: Hayes Litho. Co., c. 1883. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the mass execution of 38 Native Americans in Minnesota for revolt against...

A young girl eating war bread during the First World War (1914-1918). Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Herbert Hoover, future president of the United States (1929-1933), c. 1915. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

In Brussels, sacks of white flour and cases of condensed milk are ready for distribution, c. 1916. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Relief ship carrying supplies to Belgium, c. 1915. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Wanted Immediately. 2,000,000 Garments for destitute Men, Women, and children in occupied Northern France and Belgium. Poster advertising for contributions to the Commission for the Relief of Belgium, during the First World War (1914-1918...

Committee for Relief in Belgium in Lille, France, during the First World War (1914-1918), photo by an unknown photographer, American service personnel from the 1st Aero Squadron, 1916. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

An SS service dress jacket with white metal buttons and Nazi armband. (Imperial War Museums)

A striped jacket which detainees at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz had to wear. (Imperial War Museums)

A late-1930s photograph of Heinrich Himmler (1900-45), leader of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel), and his wife Magarete and daughter Gudrun. (German Federal Archives)