171 words All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Knoxville, Tennessee, 1910. photo by Lewis Wickes Hine [3000 x 2133]
232 words Lizzie van Zyl was a 7-year-old Boer girl and an inmate at a British concentration camp. After her father refused to surrender, Lizzie was labeled an "undesirable" and deliberately starved. She died of typhoid fever shortly after this photo was taken, South Africa, 1901 [2412 x 1644].
110 words A photo of Abdul Wali, an Afghan farmer. In 2003, he was falsely accused of being a terrorist. Hoping to clear his name, he turned turned himself in to the Americans. A CIA contractor would brutally torture Wali to death over the course of 3 days, beating him until he begged for death [596 x 420].
891 words A large white mob, many of them hoping to participate or watch a lynching, stands outside the courthouse as a black man stands trial for murdering a white girl, Kentucky, 1920 [740 × 435].
147 words A balloon apron is suspended to defend London from air attacks, 1915 [1600x1351]
1,155 words A photo of Charles McArther Emmanuel, the American-born son of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, taken somewhere in Liberia, where he moved in 1994. During his time there, Emmanuel was the head of an "anti-terrorist unit". He tortured and murdered dissidents and civilians [500 x 703].
362 words U.S. Marine Michael Schwarz (left) walks with his lawyer during his court-martial. He was part of a small group which massacred 16 unarmed Vietnamese civilians, including 9 children. They went from hut to hut, shooting every Vietnamese person they saw, South Vietnam, 1970 [894 x 579].
164 words A Russian volunteer who came to fight for Serbs in the Bosnian War sits at the grave of deceased friend. He will be buried nearby a month later. June, 1994 (1057x834)
114 words Babies left to sleep outside, enforcing immune sistem, Moscow 1958 [750 x 768]
132 words The only surviving depiction of a Western POW being executed by the Japanese during WWII ca. 1943 [1514 x 1024]
232 words US medic gives first aid to a wounded German SS soldier, France 1944 [736x557]
185 words Visiting quarantined family and friends at Ullevål Hospital, Oslo - Photo by Anders Beer Wilse - 1905 [729 x 960]
163 words Anne Frank's father; Otto Frank served as a lieutenant during WW1. by his merits he earned two iron crosses from both clases. Circa 1914 [500 × 713]
139 words A Nationalist Chinese soldier of the 29th Route Army taunting Imperial Japanese soldiers, he was gunned down moments later. Northern China, 1937. [750 x 914]
121 words A young North Vietnamese soldiers lightning a smoke for a elderly man on a graveyard, Both have lost a leg, the text on the sign near them say "graveyard of 45 students that were massacred by an American bomb on March 16, 1965", Hanoi 1970 [1024 x 1023]
255 words 7'3'' jakob nacken (221 cm) the tallest nazi soldier ever chatting with 5'3'' (160 cm) canadian corporal bob roberts after surrendering to him near calais, france in september of 1944 (colorized by me) [1434x1976]
763 words Forest Brothers - Estonia 1953 (Anti-Soviet partisans still resisting the Soviet occupation after the end of World War II) [1080x1078] [Colorized]
190 words A German Messerschmitt Me 262 flashes through the frame of an American P-51 Mustang gun camera, 1945 [1000 x 797]
117 words French Resistance member Georges Blind smiling in front of a German execution squad. October 1944 (1599x1160)
200 words The harbour of Naples littered with wrecks of sunken ships, October 1943 [2168 x 1360]