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05/16/2023
Hitler Youth Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
This photo of a former member of the Hitler Youth - Hitlerjugend - being sentenced for espionage in 1945, has made waves online over the years. It shows 16 year old Karl Arno Punzeller, a leader in the Hitler Youth organization, listening as he is told that his death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment. Karl had been reporting American troop movements to the Nazis and a German court had convicted him of espionage, giving him the death sentence. The photo and the story behind it is sad, while also interesting. See some of the propaganda - from both sides - that dominated during World War 2. It's no wonder that people had very strong opinions and feelings that their side was right.


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05/03/2023
Lest We Forget - The Children of the Holocaust
The Holocaust led by Adolf Hitler during World War 2 claimed the lives of millions. The Holocaust photo collection contains the images of approximately 3,000 children whose lives were taken from them. Many of these images are shared by community member Alyssa McIntosh who works tirelessly to make sure that we never forget the young victims. See just some of these young faces of those who lost their lives below...it's heartbreaking. We'll never know what talent was lost, what they would have become, and what they would have added to our lives.


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05/04/2023
Last Photos of the RMS Titanic
The last known photo taken of the RMS Titanic afloat foretells a tragic story. Over 100 years later, almost everyone knows what happened to this "unsinkable" ship. But when these photos were taken, no one could dream of the tragedy that would occur on their voyage. View the final photos of this majestic ship leaving Cobh (now Queenstown) Ireland on her way to New York. You can barely see the people on board, leaning over the railing - how many of them died 3 days later?


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05/07/2023
Crime and Punishment in the 19th - 20th Centuries
Discover photos of U.S. citizens who committed crimes in the 1800's and early 1900's. Most of the crimes for which they were arrested are very different from current offenses - selling liquor (for which you could be imprisoned for life), anarchy, fighting for women's rights, pickpocketing, train robbing - and at least one is still rampant today: murder. There's even a photo of the first documented serial murderer in the United States. Click on any of the photos to read more about these notorious people and their crimes.


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05/07/2023
Anne Frank's Diary Published in English 65 Years Later
During World War II, one young teenage girl's whole world was a small annex in which she lived with 7 other people. All Jewish, they were hiding from the Nazis. Just previous to this, she had been given a diary and she began writing in it about her daily life. While initially published in 1947, in 1952 her (edited) diary was made into a book in the United States and generations since have been riveted by her insights and experiences. Anne Frank, although she died at 15, is now known throughout the world and she has helped generations of young people understand the ravages of bigotry and hate through her book "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl".


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05/07/2023
Celebrity Kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
The kidnapping of the famous aviator and explorer Charles Lindbergh's first child took center stage during the 1930s. Lindbergh's celebrity and fame fueled public outrage over the crime, catapulting this kidnapping to the forefront of news, leading to a booby trap ransom, the 'trial of the century', the creation of Congress' Federal Kidnapping Act or the "Lindbergh Law" and the execution by electric chair of a kidnapper who plead his innocence until the end. Why did the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr. cause this national frenzy? To understand the importance and impact of this sad event, it's important to explore how Charles achieved hero status and the details of the kidnapping on March 1st, 1932.