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Roger Viollet

As Allied troops advanced near the end of the war, Germany sent prisoners on death marches from the western front to Dachau, near Munich. When the camp was liberated in April 1945, pictured here, U.S. troops encountered piles of dead bodies and survivors on the brink of death.

Born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, in 1889, Adolf Hitler was a skilled speaker and rose to power in Germany democratically. In the wake of its WWI loss, he blamed the country's economic woes on Jewish people and promised to restore Germany to glory.

On discovery, the Frieze of Lions and the Frieze of Archers were nothing more than heaps of bricks. Seeing herself as their “archaeological mother,” Jane Dieulafoy managed organizing and labeling the pieces for reassembly. Both remain major draws at the Louvre Museum, Paris.

RMS Titanic was outfitted with wireless technology that allowed passengers to send messages while at sea.