The first African slaves in Louisiana were half a dozen lost souls captured as plunder by the French army in the Spanish War of Succession, 1710. The years 1717-1721 saw the first importation of African slaves to Louisiana, when eight boatloads brought some 2,000 Africans to the colony.
Some WW2 legacies still impact our lives today. For example, the Japanese government continues to face criticism for its handling of the atrocities committed by the war time regime, while Nazi hunters continue to track down war criminals who were never brought to justice.
Two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war. Only two people in this group survived the Holocaust. Germany, 1928. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.