Ethics Documents

At the age of 44, Arthur Llewelyn Davies lost his battle with cancer.  This obituary describes both his life and his career in glowing terms. &nb...

This document, from June of 1943, indicates that the five crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau could process  4,756 "personen" per day.  The doc...

When William Banning lost his son George in Korea, the bereaved father—from New Canaan, Connecticut—sent a letter to President Truman. &nb...

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was intended to provide protection for African-Americans.  The United States Supreme Court, however, found it to be ...

Children were committed to institutions, in Ireland, known as "Industrial Schools." Subsequent investigations reveal that children suffered greatly in...

The Fordwich Custumal is a document which sets-forth the laws and customs of the port town of Fordwich, England during medieval times.

In his book, The Underground Railroad, William Still includes a story about four slaves who wanted to escape from Delaware (a slave state which remain...

Were crematoria, at Nazi camps, used to dispose of bodies of people who were gassed at these camps? The issue is still debated, particularly by indivi...

  On the 20th of February, 1962, Brigadier General Edward G. Lansdale prepared a memo addressing how the United States government could "help th...

Official translation of Himmler's speech to a gathering of SS men in which he directly discuses the "evacuation" of Jewish people. In the speech he st...

This analysis compares and contrasts the Hiroshima atomic bomb (known as "Little Boy") with more modern thermonuclear warheads.  Notice the exte...

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...