On April 11, 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.
This April 16, 1945, photo provided by the U.S. Army, shows inmates of the German KZ Buchenwald inside their barrack, a few days after U.S troops liberated this concentration camp near Weimar.In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba.
In 1961, former SS officer Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel, charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the Nazi Holocaust. In 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors. In 2018, Pope Francis admitted he made “grave errors” in judgment in Chile’s sex abuse scandal; during a January visit to Chile, Francis had strongly defended Bishop Juan Barros despite accusations by victims that Barros had witnessed and ignored their abuse.
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