Soldiers Office after 1868, she and her team had accomplished a tremendous feat. Their work had revealed the whereabouts of more than 22,000 missing soldiers, providing closure for families devastated by the loss of their loved ones.

The Missing Soldiers Office marks an important transition in Barton’s humanitarian career. She no longer wanted for organizational support to provide humanitarian aid. In her third floor office, she practiced the art of administration and organization with a devoted team of workers, backed by enthusiastic donors. These skills, combined with a reputation built during her national speaking tour, put Clara Barton on the path toward becoming the nation’s foremost humanitarian and founder of the American Red Cross.

Clara Barton’s passionate quest to find missing soldiers established her as one of the earliest advocatesThe Nazi women who were every bit as evil as the men: From the mother who shot Jewish children in cold blood to the nurses who gave lethal injections in death camps



Chilling new book has unearth ered thousands of complicit German women

At least half a million witnessed and contributed to Hitler's terror

Have been dubbed the ‘primary witnesses of the Holocaust’

Secretaries typed the orders to kill and filed the details of massacres

Only a small number of women were called to account for their crimes



At the heart of Nazi killings: Irma Grese was a concentration camp guard and one of the few women to be called to account for her crimes

B londe German housewife Erna Petri was returning home after a shopping trip in town when something caught her eye: