Gerecke The Chaplain At Nuremberg

 

 

 

 

Chaplain Henry Gerecke, a Captain in the U.S. Army from Missouri, sank to his knees in a cell with Wilhelm Keitel, Adolf Hitler’s field marshal whose unquestioning obedience to his Fuhrer caused mass extermination of the Jews in Nazi Germany.  Gerecke prayed with the condemned man in German – and he would ultimately minister 13 of 21 of Hitler’s most malevolent Nazi leaders on trial in Nuremberg after World War Two for their heinous war crimes. ‘Gerecke believed his duty as a Christian minister was to bring redemption to these souls, to save as many Nazis as he could before their executions,' says author Tim Townsend in the gripping new book, Mission at Nuremberg, An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis. Whenever you see this image, tap to view all the images in a gallery Ok +13 On watch: Each of the Nazis in the Nuremberg jail had his own guard stationed in front of his cell. Guards were on watch 24/7 and were never allowed to speak to the prisoners. They were fed through a fold-down window +13 TLC: As a chaplain with the 98th General Hospital in Munich, Captain Gerecke ministered to wounded GIs By the time Hitler’s foot soldiers faced their fate, Hermann Goering, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Albert Speer and Hans Frank - men who had been instrumental in creating the Holocaust - had sung the chaplain’s praises in a letter they had written to the chaplain's wife. Eight of the condemned Nazis had accepted communion from the Army Captain determined to save their souls. Gerecke returned home humbled and haunted by his experience. Perhaps most disturbing: the hangings themselves. The hangman had miscalculated the amount of rope needed and the trap door was badly designed. As a result the Nazis’ faces smashed into the platform on their way down, breaking their noses and tearing their faces. Exactly what Gerecke witnessed, he wrote later, ‘could never be told’. Gerecke was an unlikely candidate for his mission in Nuremberg.   ‘Here is this farmer’s kid from Missouri whose father never wanted him to be pastor,’ the author told MailOnline. ‘He shocked his wife and family when he told them: "'I want to try to minister to the people who are destitute and living in the streets and jails". He was clearly drawn to that.' An evangelical Christian, Gerecke started ministering in missions in St. Louis in 1935, working tirelessly with prisoners in the downtown city jail, medium security prisons and local hospitals, giving endless hours of his time, Townsend relates. In June 1943, at age 50, he applied and was accepted as an Army chaplain and recruited to attend to wounded and dying American and Allied troops in hospitals outside of London. He was promoted to captain and became a ranking chaplain officer when the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944. His unit, the Ninety-Eighth, was then sent to Munich to set up care in a bombed-out hospital facing a ‘full-blown typhoid epidemic.’ Germans had been consuming spoiled food and the waste conditions were deplorable.  'In his domain God alone was Judge and the question of earthly guilt had no significance. His only duty was the care of souls' In 1945 Captain Gerecke was informed that he was being sent to Nuremberg to serve as a spiritual adviser to men considered the scourge of the earth as they awaited trial for their crimes against humanity. He was given the chance to opt out of the mission, but he believed he could return these men to their faith, Townsend explains. ‘Pastor Gerecke’s view was that in his domain God alone was Judge and the question of earthly guilt had no significance so far as he was concerned. His only duty was the care of souls,’ wrote Hans Fritzsche, who, on trial as Hitler’s radio propaganda chief, was one of Gerecke’s Nuremberg flock. Gerecke hoped to convince these criminals that it really was God’s judgment that they should fear. Gerecke was an unlikely-looking candidate for the job, says author Townsend, ’a really small guy, middle aged, with a belly, glasses and gray receding hair.’ +13 Facing justice:  Nazi war criminals (from left to right) Goering (wearing dark glasses), Hess, Ribbentrop and Keitel were among the 21 who stood trial in Nuremberg in 1945. Captain Gerecke ministered to 13 +13 +13 Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel (left) was hanged as a war criminal while Hermann Goering, whose request for a firing squad was refused, poisoned himself with potassium cyanide he had hidden in his cell But he was selected for the highly delicate post because of his background ministering to prisoners, the fact that he was a Lutheran like many of the Nazis, and he spoke fluent German. Gerecke had visited the concentration camp at Dachau in Upper Bavaria, touched the inside of the walls that still had blood on them, saw the execution mounds, the barbed wire, the SS barracks and was sickened by the evidence of the atrocities. The pastor was moved and horrified by what he saw, says Townsend. Although determined to fulfill his mission, Gerecke ‘was terrified by the prospect of being close to the men who had tried to take over the world,’ the author writes.  ‘He imagined that simply feeling their breath on his face would be sickening.' In writings after departing Nuremberg, Gerecke describes feeling totally inadequate to the task. ‘How can a pastor, a Missouri farm boy, make any impression on these disciples of Adolf Hitler? How can I approach them? How can I summon the true Christian spirit that this mission demands of a chaplain?’ He said he prayed ‘harder than I ever had in my life’, so that he could ‘somehow learn to hate the sin but love the sinner’. When Gerecke arrived in Nuremberg in November 1945, it had been reduced to rubble. Britain sent more than 500 heavy bombers over Nuremberg, destroying 90 percent of the city. The stench of death hung heavily over the ruins. 'He imagined that simply feeling their breath on his face would be sickening' The prisoners were depressed and ragged, says Townsend.  ‘Most still wore the clothes they had been captured in. The generals had had their ribbons torn from their chests,’ the author writes. Stripped of belts and suspenders, pants drooped. With only an infrequent shave, 'the men looked more like the tenants of a bowery house than the recent leaders of a mighty nation.’ The most senior Nazis, Hitler and Heinrich Himmler had committed suicide; Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich’s propaganda minister, killed his family and himself after Hitler’s suicide. Twenty-one of Hitler’s most hated Henchmen were sent to Nuremberg. The prison block had three floors; the Nazi prisoners were on the first. The cell doors had a window at shoulder height. It folded down to form a shelf so the condemned men could get their meals. Each prisoner had a guard outside his cell round the clock. They were not allowed to speak to the prisoners. Gerecke was an exception. On November 12, 1945 Gerecke began his ministry. He decided that he would visit each prisoner in his cell and shake hands and greet them. He wanted to be friendly so that his message would not be hindered by a wrong approach.  He admitted later in a detailed account of his experience: ‘I was terribly frightened.’ Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy in the Nazi party who ruled his life by astrology and wanted Germany to be rid of all the Jews, was in the first cell. Gerecke offered to shake his hand. +13 Hang tough: War criminal Karl Gronwaldt prepares to meet his maker. The faces of the guards were altered Speaking in German, Gerecke asked, ‘Would you care to attend chapel service on Sunday evening?’ ‘No,’ replied Hess, in English. Gerecke then asked him, in English: ‘Do you feel you can get along as well without attending as if you did?’ ‘I expect to be extremely busy preparing my defense,’ answered Hess. ‘If I have any praying to do, I’ll do it here.’ The next cell belonged to the highest-ranking Nazi on trial, former Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering. Gerecke wrote: ‘I dreaded meeting the big flamboyant egotist worse than any of the others. Through the small aperture I had a chance to size him up for a moment. He was reading a book and smoking his meerschaum pipe.’ Any trepidation Gerecke felt was diffused by Goering’s shrewdly calculated amiability. ‘I am glad to see you,’ said Goering, pulling up a chair for Gerecke. The agent of death seemed enthusiastic about attending chapel services, though the chaplain soon found out from the prison psychologist that he only went in order to be able to leave his cell.                    When Goering was captured, writes, Townsend, he was stripped of his military decorations, a dagger, his gold epaulets, and a huge diamond ring on his fourth finger and his prized solid gold baton. He wanted to meet with Eisenhower but was surprised to find himself whisked off first to Mondorf, Germany. He arrived wearing his sky blue Luftwaffe uniform and brought with him 16 matching, monogrammed suitcases, a red hatbox, and his valet. His fingernails and toenails were painted bright red. His valet, Robert Kropp, had carried Goering’s gold Luftwaffe badge with diamonds, a Movado travel clock, a gold cigarette case inlaid with amethyst and monogrammed by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, a gold-and-velvet cigar box, a Cartier watch set with diamonds, a gold pencil, an emerald ring, a diamond ring, a ruby ring, a diamond brooch, and a gold stickpin with a swastika made of diamond chips. Goering also had a big stash of pills to feed his 40 pill-a-day habit of Paracodin, an equivalent of Vicodin. He had been addicted to morphine before moving on to pills. In the end, Goering would never receive communion from the American chaplain and would poison himself before ever taking a trip to the gallows. +13 Weddings bells: Chaplain Gerecke married Alma Bender in St. Louis in 1918. When the criminals in his Nuremberg flock learned that Alma was calling him home during the trial, they sent her a letter imploring her to let him remain. It was signed by all 21 prisoners. 'We have simply come to love him,' they wrote +13 Training camp: After a stint at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, 50-year-old Gerecke (left) was deployed to England Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces, was also reading a book when Gerecke came to his cell the first time. ‘I asked him what he was reading. He all but knocked me speechless by replying, “My Bible.”’ Keitel said, ‘I know from this book that God can love a sinner like me.’ ‘A phony,’ thought Gerecke. Fritz Sauckel, once head of labor supply for Hitler and called ‘the greatest and cruelest slaver since the pharaohs of Egypt' who worked millions of slave laborers to death without mercy, was repentant. When Gerecke appeared, he exclaimed: ‘As a pastor, you are one person to whom I can open my heart.’ During their conversation, Sauckel wiped away many tears and agreed to attend chapel services. Gerecke’s footsteps echoed in the corridor as he walked from cell to cell and greeted each of the 23 Nazis. The final visitation that day was to Albert Speer, architect of the Third Reich. Speer saved himself from death by admitting responsibility and cooperating with his interrogators. He told Gerecke it was 'the neglect of genuine Christianity that caused its downfall'. Speer said, 'Gerecke was "a man with a warm heart…he cared"'. Gerecke wondered how many of the Nazis, whose collective crimes were so immense, would in fact, attend his weekly services. Thirteen of the condemned men attended – and continued to come on the following Sundays. And before they were put to death, eight former Nazis received communion for their sins from the pastor. The final visitation day was September 28, 1946 and most of the prisoners said goodbye to their families. At 9:30 am, the International Military Tribunal read the verdicts. Goering 'was the most prominent man in the Nazi regime' who had 'tremendous influence with Hitler'. +13 Wall of shame: Nazi prisoners carried heavy stones from a nearby quarry up the 'stairs of death' at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria in 1942. SS guards would often push  weary, starving inmates over the quarry wall to their deaths. In 1945 the 11th Armored Division helped liberate the camp Guilty on all four counts, he was sentenced to death by hanging. Rudolf Hess, imprisonment for life. Joachim von Ribbentrop, death by hanging. Keitel, death by hanging. Many more would hang. Speer’s sentence was a modest 20 years in prison.      Keitel requested he be executed by firing squad as did Goering but their petitions were denied. From that day to the executions, Gerecke and his assistant chaplain, Father Sixtus O’Connor of New York, a Catholic priest, stayed with the condemned men who were now allowed to only walk up and down the cellblock handcuffed to a guard. Several would take communion with Gerecke in their cells.        The executions were to take place on October 16 under cover of darkness. The gallows would be built and taken down the same day. The prisoners were to have their last meal at 11:45 p.m. and then walk to the gym where the gallows stood. Gerecke sat with each of the condemned men in his charge and asked them to join him in a prayer he had written. Goering wasn’t leaving his cell. He argued again for a firing squad and finally told Gerecke he couldn’t say: 'Jesus, save me'. 'The trap door was badly designed and the ropes improperly tied. The Nazis’ faces smashed into the platform on their way down, breaking their noses and tearing their faces' Goering said: 'This Jesus you always speak of – to me he’s just another smart Jew.' But he still wanted communion just in case there was any truth in Christianity. Gerecke refused and left his cell.       When the prison lights went down, Goering broke the glass vial of potassium cyanide he had hidden and cracked it between his teeth. He began gurgling and frothing at the mouth and died quickly.     Among his possessions was a silk dress shirt, a silk robe folded under his pillow, two pairs of silk socks and silk underwear. He also had a pair of U.S.-made sunglasses, a shoeshine rag, a deck of playing cards, cigarette papers, Velvet tobacco, Edgeworth tobacco, Durham tobacco, books and magazines.        The executions began at 12:25 a.m. The prisoner would be led to the gym where the gallows had been constructed. Once inside, the prisoner would face the tribunal sitting at tables across from the gallows, state his name and climb up the 13 steps to the gallows platform followed by the two chaplains, Gerecke and O'Connor.     +13 +13 Inspiration: Tim Townsend, author of Mission at Nuremberg was decided to write about Gerecke's life  and good works when he came across the letter from the Nazi prisoners sent to Gerecke's wife Alma +13 I come in peace: When Gerecke arrived at the Palace of Justice (above) he visited each cell and shook hands with all 21 Nazi prisoners. He knew he could never win them over to his way of thinking unless they liked him At the top of the stairs, the prisoner's hands were tied behind their backs and their legs tied together. Gerecke said a short prayer and when he said, ‘Amen,’ a black hood was placed over the prisoner's head, followed by a noose. The hangman’s lever was pulled and the sentenced man dropped through the trap door. All the executions were over in two hours.        Each body was placed atop a coffin. When the chaplains viewed the bodies, they were astonished to see that the faces of the Nazis were mutilated.  The U.S. Army’s executioner Master Sergeant John Woods, who had constructed the gallows, had miscalculated the amount of rope needed. The trap door was badly designed and the ropes improperly tied. The result was that the Nazis’ faces smashed into the platform on their way down, breaking their noses and tearing their faces. Townsend told the MailOnline: ‘Gerecke tells the story of the executions saying "We went behind the curtain and both of us were shocked and looked at each other and agreed that what we had seen could never be told."' He and Pastor O’Connor never talked about it. At the time, nobody wanted to mention it but since then historians or others who had been there uncovered what was pretty grisly. Returning to his apartment that night, Gerecke thought of the 'gross hates and cruelties which climaxed in the careers of the Nazi leaders' and was convinced that the condemned men 'could have been a blessing to the world instead of a curse'. Tim Townsend told the MailOnline he was inspired to write this story of the Lutheran minister’s selfless work when he came across a letter in an exhibit in the Concordia Institute in St. Louis. ‘I came to one of the pieces under glass that was a letter that was signed by all 21 of the war criminals on trial, written and sent to Alma Gerecke, his wife back home in Missouri. 'The letter was written about half way through the trial. The Nazis had heard a rumor that Alma had called her husband home. She hadn’t seen him in almost three years. They had heard she was saying, “Enough is enough. I want you to come back now.” ‘They wrote her this letter asking her to allow Henry to stay through the end of the trial. One of the lines that jumped out at me when I was reading the translation of this letter was – "Surely we need not tell his own wife – what an extraordinary man he is. We have simply come to love him." +13 The chaplain admitted he was terrified at the thought of ministering to the evildoers at Nuremberg and imagined their breath on his face 'sickening.' But Gerecke won his flock over,  using his purity of heart and spirit a small chapel constructed by knocking down a wall between two empty cells 'It was signed Hermann Goering, Albert Speer, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the most senior member of the SS, and Hans Frank – men who had created the Holocaust. ‘I found Henry’s son who’s still alive in Southern Mo. who just turned 93. I visited him and he said his father’s story had never been told before and he started telling me the story.’        Henry Gerecke died in 1961 back home in Missouri, while working part time at a church and a maximum-security prison where he was chaplain to murderers. He had a heart attack in the parking lot of the prison before he drove himself home and died in his own house. The prisoners took up a collection for a cross to be raised on the school next to the church where he was assistant pastor.         ‘These were among the worst criminals in the country', writes Townsend, ‘and they were pooling their money together for a cross that they would never see to go up on top of the local Lutheran school. 'That action is similar to the letter written by the Nazis to Alma - which he had connected with these people he believed were lost but could be saved.        ‘The warden of that prison allowed for the first time for the body to lie in state within the prison walls. The prisoners lined up to say goodbye to the person many of them considered their only friend.’

Whenever you see this image, tap to view all the images in a gallery Ok +4 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, was captured in 1941 while flying to Scotland on a peace mission. Until now it was thought he acted alone It is more than 70 years since Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into Scotland on an ill-fated peace mission to Britain which was thought to be a solo venture made without the Nazis' knowledge. But now the discovery of a blocked oil pipe on the remains of his crashed aircraft suggest that he must have had help from inside Germany. While examining the remains of Hess's Messerschmitt at the Imperial War Museum in Cambridge, authors John Harris and Richard Wilbourn found that a crucial pipe had been blanked off with a large brass nut. They say that with only the main oil tank available Hess would not have been able to make the five-hour flight from Augsburg in Bavaria to Scotland and would have been forced to land in northern Germany to refuel. In their new book on Hess, the authors say this means other people would have to have known about the flight and assisted Hess in keeping the plane on track. Speaking to the Sunday Express, Mr Harris said: 'Our recent discoveries have essentially destroyed the illusion of a solo flight by the deputy Fuhrer who was trying to regain his former prestige. 'Our new work clearly demonstrates that the flight was planned in minute detail and required official support and connivance.' +4 Hess parachuted out of the plane, which eventually crashed near Glasgow and was preserved +4 New examination of the wreckage suggests Hess would have been forced to refuel in northern Germany during his flight, meaning officials must have known what he was doing Hess was captured by the Allies in 1941 after he was discovered flying low over Scotland to see the Duke of Hamilton - a man he had never met - who he hoped would persuade Britain to the negotiating table. Hess, Hitler's right-hand man, had seen his influence over the Fuhrer wain since the Nazi party's rise to power and the mission was seen as a desperate attempt to win back favour. After his capture Hitler disowned him, abolishing the position of deputy and promoting Hess's rival Martin Bormann to the new post of Party Chancellery. +4 Authors John Harris and Richard Wilbourn made the discovery while examining the remains of Hess's Messerschmitt at the Imperial war Museum in Cambridge Hess remained behind bars in Britain for the remainder of the war, and was among the first to be tried at Nuremberg following the end of the fighting. He was jailed for life in 1946 and held at Spandau Prison in Berlin until he hanged himself in 1987 at the age of 92.   Nein Camp! Inside Adolf Hitler's German beach resort that has never had a single guest after being abandoned 75 years ago Prora was supposed to showcase the best of Third Reich architecture Yet Hitler pulled the plug on the project before it was finished to focus on the war effort After the war the Soviets planned to blow the site up - but didn't have enough dynamite Plans afoot to build a 300-room hotel, with other spaces being sold as flats German resort was Hitler's idea of a 'Baltic Butlins' - a space for family fun and entertainment This is the 10,000-room hotel that has never had a guest. Situated on the island of Rügen in Germany, the Prora beach resort was built by Adolf Hitler between 1936 and 1939 as a striking show of Third Reich architecture. Yet the project was halted, with eight separate buildings having been erected, when the Nazi leader decided to focus on building more planes and war infrastructure. Scroll down for video +13 The monumental seaside resort of Prora in Rügen was built by the Nazis between 1936 and 1939 +13 Hitler pulled the plug when the job was half done as he decided it was more important to pump resources into the war effort Prora was constructed on the Baltic island of Ruegen by the stormtroopers of the Nazi 'Strength Through Joy' leisure organisation over a six-year period and occupies nearly three miles of beachfront. It was meant to provide holiday entertainment for 20,000 of Hitler's hordes at any one time. But not a single Nazi ever got to stay there. The 'Colossus of Prora' was thought to have been Hitler's Nazi equivalent to Butlins, who began developing their holiday camps in 1936 throughout the UK. It was to be Hitler's reward to the workers who had toiled long hours for the Third Reich - a bucket-and-spade resort and fun for all the family. It was occupied after 1945 by the Red Army and became a top-secret Soviet base. After the war, the Soviets considered blowing it up, but discovered they didn't have enough dynamite for the job. Instead they turned it into a massive tank-and-artillery base for the People's Army of East Germany and it vanished from all maps. +13 It is hoped a number of rooms will be sold to the elderly, while there are plans to build a smaller hotel on site +13 The hotel resort was meant to show off the class of Third Reich architecture - sadly it's been left to ruin +13 Prora was supposed to be the frontrunner of the Nazi's 'Strength Through Joy' leisure programme A museum at the site chronicles the history of Prora which, aside from the building of the Atlantic Wall of coastal fortifications stretching from Norway to the border of Spain - intended to thwart any Allied landings in occupied Europe - was Hitler's biggest building project. The Nazis viewed leisure as just one more aspect of human activity to be governed by the party. Rare footage of Hitler and Eva Braun at their private residence   +13 The resort was meant to show off all the attributes Nazi leader Hitler wanted the people of Germany to demonstrate Prora was destined to be the forerunner of a string of such giant camps whose plans were mothballed due to the war he unleashed on the world. The site is currently being sold off and renovated, in the hopes it will one day again be home to tens of thousands of people. Some of the buildings will be marketed as homes for the elderly, others luxury apartments, and still others as a 300 room hotel. Nazi white elephants that have been left to rot in Germany From buildings built by the Nazis to ornate theatres, burnt out hotels and eerie sanatoriums, these are the abandoned buildings that still litter the powerhouse of Europe. Photographer Daniel Barter, 30, from London travelled to the German capital Berlin and the surrounding countryside to capture buildings in need of work on film. Far from being resplendent in vintage glory, the deserted music venues and crumbling hospitals are a shadow of their former selves. +13 An abandoned former Hitler Youth Training School pictured by British photographer Daniel Barter, 30, from London +13 A lecture hall at the former Hitler Youth training school +13 Pictured here is an abandoned theatre that has not seen a show for years +13 The arches around a courtyard inside the old sanatorium daubed with graffiti +13 The Eagle and Iron Cross mural at Krampnitz Kaserne, a military complex, in Fahrland, Potsdam, created by the Germans during the rearmament period +13 A barber's chair in a manor house that once acted as a sanatorium is left to rot +13 A gym/basketball court at Krampnitz Kaserne. The 35th Guards Motor Rifle Division was then stationed there until its abandonment in 1992, after the Soviet Union dissolved

D-Day remembered: Striking then-and-now photographs that capture how northern France was devastated 70 years ago – and how it has recovered With anniversary of Normandy Landings approaching next week, Getty Images have created striking a juxtaposition D-Day on June 6, 1944, marked the start of the European invasion during the Second World War Thousands of allied troops landed on French beaches initiating efforts to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation In total 75,215 British and Canadian troops and 57,500 US troops were landed by sea on D-Day Today they are picturesque scenes of tranquility, but seventy years ago these sites in Northern France were the bloody stage for the D-Day landings. With the anniversary of the Normandy Landings approaching next week, Getty Images have created a striking juxtaposition of the scenes in 1944 and now in 2014.  The images show how the pretty market square of Trevieres once had the dead body of German solider splayed out across the street and how the quiet beach of St Aubin-sur-Mer was once the scene of thousands of Royal Marines marching through the waters.  Next week the anniversary of the amphibious assault on June 6, 1944 will be marked with events on several of the Normandy beaches. D-Day marked the start of the European invasion during the Second World War after five years of war with Germany. Thousands of allied troops landed on the beaches in Northern France initiating the effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation. In total 75,215 British and Canadian troops and 57,500 US troops were landed by sea on D-Day. They began an attack that lasted for eleven months and took them all the way to Germany. +12 The body of a German soldier belonging lies on the Market Square in Trevieres, 15 June, 1944. The two jeeps in the centre of the photo and the two GIs at the left are part of the MP Platoon of the 2nd Infantry Division A group of American soldiers stand at the village fountain on 12 June, 1944. A woman is walking away with two pitchers while three children are watching the scene, and an old man is fetching water next to a GI expected to wash his bowls. Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, was liberated by a group of paratroopers of the 501st and 506th Regiments of the 101st Airborne Division +12 A Canadian soldier is directing traffic in Bernieres-sur-Mer on 6 June, 1944. The Canadians landed at Juno Beach which is nearby. Nearly 14,000 Canadian soldiers were put ashore and 340 lost their live in the battles for the beachhead +12 After the assault at the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc by the 2nd Ranger Battalion (D, E and F Company) Colonel James E. Rudder establishes a Post Commando on Omaha Beach, in Normandy. German prisoners are gathered and an American flag is deployed for signaling. The heaviest fighting was on Omaha beach +12 An older couple watch a Canadian soldier with a bulldozer working in the ruins of a house in the rue de Bayeux, Caen, 10 July, 1944. The church towers in the background have survived the Allied bombing intact +12 A French armoured column passing through the small French town of St Mere Eglise on D-Day, gets a warm welcome from the inhabitants +12 Three soldiers of the 23rd Field Ambulance of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division place flowers on graves in Saint Georges de Basly. Two soldiers wear the armband for the Red Cross. In the background is the church of Saint Georges de Basly. The four temporary graves are for a Scottish, a Canadian and two French civilians +12 The British 2nd Army: Royal Marine Commandos of Headquarters, 4th Special Service Brigade, make their way from LCI(S)s (Landing Craft Infantry Small) onto 'Nan Red' Beach, JUNO Area, at St Aubin-sur-Mer at about 9 am, 6 June, 1944 +12 A view of Omaha Beach near Vierville sur Mer, France. American troops stand by with stores on Omaha Beach after the D-Day landings +12 A view of a town square, stockpiled with supplies and ammunition earmarked for the impending D-Day invasion of France, in Moreton-in-Marsh, England, May 1944. The building at the extreme left is the Rededale Arms Hotel +12 US troops on the Esplanade at Weymouth, Dorset, on their way to embark on ships bound for Omaha Beach for the D-Day landings in Normandy, June 1944 +12 Boats full of US troops waiting to leave Weymouth, Southern England, to take part in Operation Overlord in Normandy, June 1944. This location was used as a launching place for Allied troops participating in the invasion of Nazi-occupied France on D-Day, 6 June, 1944

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Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, has been the scene of violent protests today, as demonstrators vent their anger over a proposal to extend President Blaise Compaore's 27-year rule. The storming of the parliament building today marked the culmination of several days of demonstrations. A reported 1,500 protesters ransacked offices and set buildings, documents, equipment, and vehicles ablaze. Security forces attempted to control the crowds using tear gas and live rounds. Emergency services said at least three protesters have been shot dead and several others wounded so far. Ouagadougou airport is now closed, and state TV is off the air. The violent reaction has led the government to scrap the planned presidential term extension, but opposition protesters are now calling for Compaore's resignation. Protesters enter the parliament in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, on October 30, 2014. Hundreds of angry demonstrators stormed parliament on October 30 before setting it on fire in protest at plans to change the constitution to allow President Blaise Compaore to extend his 27-year rule. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) 2 Earlier this week, on October 28, 2014, Burkina Faso opposition supporters protested in Ouagadougou against plans to let the long-serving president extend his rule beyond 30 years. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 3 Hundreds of demonstrators clash with police in Ouagadougou on October 28, 2014 after a mass rally. The violence erupted at the end of a march that drew up to a million people, according to opposition leaders fighting to prevent what they see as a constitutional coup by supporters of President Blaise Compaore. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 4 Demonstrators clash with Police in Ouagadougou on October 28, 2014. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 5 Burkina Faso riot police arrest an opposition supporter in Ouagadougou on October 28, 2014 as hundreds battled police after a mass rally. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 6 On October 29, 2014, police hold hands to cordon off access to the parliament in Ouagadougou as people demonstrate against the high cost of living in Burkina Faso. Trade unions in Burkina Faso have called a general strike on October 29 following a day of protests against long-serving President Blaise Compaore that saw hundreds of thousands of people on the streets. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 7 Smoke rises from Burkina Faso's Parliament, where demonstrators set cars on fire parked in a courtyard on October 30, 2014. Police had fired tear gas on protesters to try to prevent them from moving in on the National Assembly building ahead of a vote on the controversial legislation. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 8 People stand in front of a fire in front of Burkina Faso's Parliament on October 30, 2014 in Ouagadougou. About 1,500 people managed to break through a security cordon, ransacking parliament, according to AFP correspondents. Protesters broke into offices, setting fire to documents and stealing computer equipment, and setting fire to cars outside. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 9 Protesters pose with a police shield outside the parliament in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 10 Cars and documents burn outside the parliament in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 11 Protesters stand outside the parliament in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014 as cars and documents burn outside.(Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 12 Protesters stand among burning vehicles outside the parliament in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014.(Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 13 Protesters stand beside burning cars and documents outside the parliament in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014.(Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 14 Anti-government protesters set fire to the parliament building in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on October 30, 2014.(Reuters/Joe Penney) # 15 Cars and documents burn outside the parliament in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 16 Anti-government protesters take over the parliament building in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014. (Reuters/Joe Penney) # 17 Anti-government protesters take over the state TV podium in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014. (Reuters/Joe Penney) # 18 A deputy clutching a national flag flees the parliament in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014, after angry demonstrators set parliament ablaze. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 19 A soldier runs from anti-government protesters as they take over the parliament building in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014.(Reuters/Joe Penney) # 20 Burkina Faso troops shoot in the air to try to disperse protesters outside the parliament in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014.(Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 21 An anti-government protester, bleeding from a gunshot wound, is helped by others in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014. Emergency services said at least three protesters were shot dead and several others wounded by security forces when the crowd tried to storm the home of Compaore's brother. (Reuters/Joe Penney) # 22 Burkina Faso troops try to disperse protesters in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014 as hundreds of angry demonstrators in Burkina Faso stormed parliament. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) # 23 An anti-government protester stands in front of a pool at a hotel where members of the parliament were said to be staying in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, October 30, 2014. Thousands of protesters marched on Burkina Faso's presidential palace after burning the parliament building and ransacking state television offices on Thursday, forcing President Blaise Compaore to scrap a plan to extend his 27-year rule. (Reuters/Joe Penney) # 24 A man watches cars burn at a hotel where members of the parliament were said to be staying in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, October 30, 2014. (Reuters/Joe Penney) # Late last month, in the small city of Iguala in southern Mexico, dozens of protesting students were attacked by police and masked gunmen. Six students were killed in the clash, and another 43 remain missing—last seen in the custody of police. Mexican authorities and relatives of the missing now fear that the 43 trainee teachers may have been massacred by local police in league with members of the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel. Yesterday, Mexico ordered the arrest of Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca, his wife, and an aide, charging them with masterminding the attack. Fifty others had already been arrested, including cartel members and dozens of police. A week after the attack, 28 bodies were discovered in a mass grave outside the city, but forensic analysis so far suggests that none of them belonged to the missing students. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans, enraged by the attacks and the lack of information, have marched in protest across the country, in some places attacking and burning government buildings. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto vowed to hunt down those responsible as the government announced a $110,000 reward for information on the missing. Demonstrators march to protest the disappearance of 43 students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college, in Mexico City, on October 22, 2014. Tens of thousands marched in Mexico City's main avenue demanding the return of the missing students. The Mexican government says it still does not know what happened to the young people after they were rounded up by local police in Iguala, a town in southern Mexico, and allegedly handed over to gunmen from a drug cartel on September 26, even though authorities have arrested 50 people allegedly involved, including police officers and alleged members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) 2 Students from Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College Raul Isidro Burgos hold pictures of missing students outside the Attorney General building in Chilpancingo, in Guerrero, on October 7, 2014. (Reuters/Jorge Dan Lopez) # 3 A teacher who did not want to be identified lies in a hospital bed on September 30, 2014, recovering from two bullet wounds suffered during the previous weekend's clashes with alleged state police in Iguala, Guerrero state, Mexico. Fourteen of 57 students who vanished after deadly shootings in southern Mexico turned up alive but relatives feared for those still missing as authorities search for them.(Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images) # 4 Mexican marines and officers belonging to the Attorney General's Office guard an area where clandestine mass graves were found near the town of La Joya, on the outskirts of Iguala, Mexico, on October 9, 2014. Two weeks after 43 students disappeared in a confrontation with police in rural southern Mexico, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam announced that suspects had led investigators to four new mass graves near the southern city of Iguala where authorities unearthed 28 badly burned bodies a week earlier.(AP Photo/Felix Marquez) # 5 Clandestine graves near Iguala, Mexico, on October 6, 2014. Despite efforts to identify the 28 bodies found in these graves, they remain unidentified, forensic evidence so far ruling out the possibility that they were the missing students who were attacked by local police in Iguala. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) # 6 Protesters march during a demonstration in Mexico City on October 8, 2014, demanding justice in the case of the 43 students that went missing in Iguala on September 26, after a clash with local police. Thousands of people protested around the country on Wednesday amid fears the students were executed by a gang working with crooked police. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images) # 7 Students from the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College throw stones at the windows of the City Congress in Chilpancingo, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, on September 29, 2014. Students from the college demonstrated in the streets to demand the safe return of students who remained missing after a series of clashes. (Reuters/Jorge Dan Lopez) # 8 A police helicopter flies overhead as the Guerrero state capital building burns after it was set on fire by protesting college students in Chilpancingo, Mexico, on October 13, 2014. Hundreds of protesting teachers and students demanding answers about the 43 students who went missing on September 26 during a confrontation with police, clashed with police at the local congress and outside the state government palace. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez) # 9 Furniture burns after protesters attacked the municipal palace in Iguala, Mexico, on October 22, 2014. Hundreds of protesters destroyed and set fire to the municipal palace of the town. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez) # 10 Damage after students attacked the Government Palace in Chilpancingo on October 13, 2014 during a protest to demand the return of the 43 missing students. (Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images) # 11 Mexican federal police and Attorney General's officers take part in a security operation in the Ejido de Carrizalillo, Guerrero State, Mexico, on October 21, 2014. Mexico's government announced a $110,000 reward for information on the disappearance of 43 students in a case of alleged collusion between a drug gang and police. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images) # 12 A member of the Mexican Gendarmerie, with a dog on the outskirts of Cocula, Guerrero State, Mexico, on October 19, 2014, searching for students who went missing in Iguala on September 26. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images) # 13 A piece of cloth sits next to a clandestine grave at La Joya, in the outskirts of Iguala, photographed on October 13, 2014.(Reuters/Jorge Dan Lopez) # 14 Body bags sit inside a truck at the Iguala morgue after being recovered from a mass grave in Pueblo Viejo, on the outskirts of Iguala, on October 4, 2014. (Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images) # 15 Municipal police officers who are suspected of being involved in the disappearance of 43 students are marched to waiting transport at the Mexican attorney generals' organized crime unit headquarters in Mexico City on October 17, 2014.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File) # 16 Photos of missing students are displayed during a march in support of the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College missing students, in Mexico City, on October 8, 2014. Thousands marched through the Mexican capital on Wednesday to demand the government find out what happened to dozens of missing students, who are feared to have been massacred by gang members and police.(Reuters/Edgard Garrido) # 17 Theater students take part during a protest in support of missing Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College students, outside the building of the office of Mexico's Attorney General in Mexico City, on October 15, 2014. (Reuters/Edgard Garrido) # 18 Supporters of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) stand during a protest in support of the 43 disappeared Mexican rural college students, at a main road near San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, on October 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Moyses Zuniga Santiago) # 19 Demonstrators protest the disappearance of 43 students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college in Acapulco, Mexico, on October 17, 2014. Thousands of protesters marched along Acapulco's famed coastal boulevard demanding the safe return of 43 missing students from a rural teachers college. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) # 20 A woman holds a photograph of a missing student during a march in support of the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College missing students, in Monterrey on October 8, 2014. (Reuters/Daniel Becerril) # 21 People take part in a march demanding justice for the 43 missing students along a street in Mexico City on October 22, 2014.(Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images) # 22 People attend a protest against the disappearance of 43 students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college, at the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, on October 22, 2014. Tens of thousands marched in Mexico City's main avenue demanding the return of the missing students. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) # 23 Teachers clash with riot police in front of the Guerrero state congress building in Chilpancingo, Mexico, on October 13, 2014.(AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez) # 24 A burning overturned car stands between protesting students and riot police after it was set on fire by protesting college students outside of the Guerrero state capital building in Chilpancingo, Mexico, on October 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) # 25 An activist throws a chair towards a window inside the Municipal Palace during a demonstration to demand information about the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa teachers' training college, in Iguala, Mexico, on October 22, 2014. (Reuters/Jorge Dan Lopez) # 26 A firefighter stands next to graffiti reading "Narcogovernors traitors", while putting out a fire after teachers and students set the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) headquarters ablaze in Chilpancingo, Guerrero state, on October 21, 2014.(Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images) # 27 A journalist takes a picture of a car, overturned by what security officials say were protesters with the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College in Chilpancingo, in the driveway of Guerrero Governor Angel Aguirre's residence in Guerrero, on October 4, 2014.(Reuters/Jorge Dan Lopez) # 28 Women march during a protest against the disappearance of 43 students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college, in Mexico City, on October 22, 2014. Tens of thousands marched in Mexico City's main avenue demanding the return of the missing students.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) #

Hong Kong Police Clash With Occupy Protesters   For weeks now, pro-democracy protest groups have occupied parts of central Hong Kong, calling for open elections and the resignation of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. Local police have been urging the demonstrators to leave for days, and have recently stepped up efforts to dismantle barricades on several major roads - only to have many of them rebuilt hours later. Tensions boiled over last night, leading to a violent clash between police and protesters. Police arrested dozens, and at least one demonstrator, politician Ken Tsang Kin-chiu, was dragged away and beaten by police, a moment caught in this video. As of today, most of the Occupy protesters remain in place, Beijing refuses to budge, and no discussions are underway. Police forces march toward pro-democracy protesters holding umbrellas during a standoff outside the central government offices in Hong Kong on October 14, 2014. Hong Kong police vowed October 14 to tear down more street barricades manned by pro-democracy protesters, hours after hundreds of officers armed with chainsaws and bolt cutters partially cleared two major roads occupied for a fortnight.(Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images) 2 A police officer sprays a pro-democracy protester in the face with pepper spray in Hong Kong on October 15, 2014. Hong Kong has been plunged into the worst political crisis since its 1997 handover as pro-democracy activists take over the streets following China's refusal to grant citizens full universal suffrage. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images) # 3 Pro-democracy protesters take park in a rally outside of Hong Kong Government Complex on October 13, 2014 in Hong Kong.(Anthony Kwan/Getty Images) # 4 A cyclist is pictured near a barricade, which was later removed by the police, on a main road leading to the financial Central district in Hong Kong October 14, 2014. (Reuters/Bobby Yip) # 5 Police officers run toward barricades that protesters set up to block off main roads in Hong Kong's Central district on October 14, 2014.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung) # 6 An anti-Occupy Central protester shouts at pro-democracy protesters as he is dragged away by police officers at the main protest site in Admiralty in Hong Kong, on October 13, 2014. Hundreds of unidentified people, some wearing masks, tried to break down protest barriers in the heart of Hong Kong's business district on Monday, scuffling with protesters who have occupied the streets for the past two weeks. (Reuters/Carlos Barria) # 7 Pro-democracy protesters (rear) hang onto their barricades as they clash with anti-Occupy Central protesters (left) in the Central financial district in Hong Kong on October 13, 2014. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu) # 8 A man jabs his fingers in the throat of a pro-democracy protester in the Central district of Hong Kong on October 13, 2014.(Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images) # 9 Police officers remove bamboo barriers that protesters set up to block off main roads in Hong Kong's Central district on October 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) # 10 Police officers remove protester's tents in a main road of the Central district in Hong Kong on October 14, 2014.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung) # 11 Hong Kong police officers remove barricades that protesters set up on October 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) # 12 A protester cries after police removed barricades that protesters set up in Hong Kong on October 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) # 13 Heavy equipment is used to remove an umbrella at the main protest site in Hong Kong on October 14, 2014. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu) # 14 A pro-democracy protester wears a plastic bottle as protection from tear gas as he stands facing a police cordon near the government headquarters building in Hong Kong on October 13, 2014. (Reuters/Carlos Barria) # 15 Pro-democracy protesters take pictures around an art installation made with umbrellas as they block a commercial area of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong on October 11, 2014. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu) # 16 A pro-democracy protester meditates on an occupied bridge leading to the financial Central District in Hong Kong on October 14, 2014.(Reuters/Liau Chung-ren) # 17 A couple, running late for their wedding ceremony due to the occupation of the main roads by pro-democracy protesters, run towards the marriage registry in central Hong Kong on October 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) # 18 A boy draws on a street blocked by pro-democracy protesters outside of the government headquarters building in Hong Kong on October 11, 2014. (Reuters/Carlos Barria) # 19 A man and girls read messages left by pro-democracy protesters outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on October 12, 2014. (Reuters/Bobby Yip) # 20 Demonstrators block an underpass with concrete slabs taken from drainage ditches on a main road outside government headquarters in Hong Kong on October 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) # 21 Demonstrators climb over barriers as others block the main road with metal and plastic safety barriers in Hong Kong's Admiralty on October 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) # 22 Pro-democracy protesters gather near the central government offices in Hong Kong on October 15, 2014.(Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images) # 23 A pro-democracy protester takes photos of obstacles made with concrete slabs in a tunnel near the central government offices in Hong Kong on October 15, 2014. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images) # 24 Pro-democracy protesters stand behind umbrellas as police prepare to advance on their positions near the central government offices in Hong Kong on October 15, 2014. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images) # 25 Police officers create a cordon on a street outside of Hong Kong Government Complex on October 14, 2014 .(Anthony Kwan/Getty Images) # 26 Police officers push protesters into a nearby park to clear a main road in Hong Kong's Admiralty on October 15, 2014.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung) # 27 Police officers push protesters into a nearby park to clear a main road in Hong Kong's Admiralty on October 15, 2014.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung) # 28 A police officer detains a pro-democracy protester after he was tackled to the ground in Hong Kong on October 15, 2014.(Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images) # 29 Civic Party member Ken Tsang, one of Hong Kong's pro-democracy political groups, is taken away by policemen, before being allegedly beaten up by police forces as seen on local TV footage shot outside the central government offices in Hong Kong on early October 15, 2014. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images) # 30 A protester leans on barricades after scuffling with police as they were trying to remove barricades that protesters set up to block off main roads in Hong Kong's Central district on October 15, 2014. Hong Kong police removed some barricades on Tuesday from the edge of pro-democracy protest zones that have choked off roads for weeks, the second straight day they have taken such action and signaling their growing impatience with the student-led demonstrators. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) # Ferguson, Missouri, has been racked by protests since an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson last week. Over the weekend, despite calls for peaceful demonstrations by Brown's parents, several protests became violent. Protesters were not only angry about the shooting, but were outraged by the heavy police response to the demonstrations. The militarized tactics taken by Ferguson police were widely criticized, and officials are still struggling to control the situation. On Sunday U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered a federal medical examiner to perform an autopsy, in addition to one being conducted by state medical examiners, and earlier today, Missouri's governor said he was calling in the National Guard to help restore order. Gathered here are photos of the chaos in Ferguson over the weekend. A law enforcement officer in a tactical vehicle watches after a device was fired to disperse a crowd on Sunday, August 17, 2014, during a protest for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer last Saturday in Ferguson, Missouri. As night fell Sunday in Ferguson, another peaceful protest quickly deteriorated after marchers pushed toward one end of a street. Police attempted to push them back by firing tear gas and shouting over a bullhorn that the protest was no longer peaceful. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) 2 Smoke trails tear gas canisters fired into the air after protests in reaction to the shooting of Michael Brown turned violent near Ferguson, Missouri on August 17, 2014. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson) # 3 Police advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 17, 2014.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) # 4 Demonstrators hold up their hands as police fire tear gas at them as they protest the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 17, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) # 5 Tear gas rises from the ground after having been fired upon protesters in Ferguson on August 17, 2014. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson) # 6 Police wait to advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd on August 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) # 7 Demonstrators face off against the police as they are cleared from the street on August 17, 2014. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) # 8 A law enforcement officer watches as tear gas is fired to disperse a crowd protesting last week's shooting of teenager Michael Brown on August 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) # 9 A woman has her face doused with milk after being tear gassed by police during a protest on August 17, 2014.(Joshua Lott/Getty Images) # 10 An FBI agent walks past a memorial erected where teenager Michael Brown was shot as the FBI interviewed residents of the neighborhood in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 16, 2014. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson) # 11 Michael Brown Sr., the father of slain teenager Michael Brown, attends a rally at Greater Grace Church on August 17, 2014. His son was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer on August 9, 2014. Despite the Brown family's continued call for peaceful demonstrations, violent protests have erupted nearly every night in Ferguson since his death. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) # 12 People attend an event for slain 18-year-old Michael Brown at the Greater Grace Church on August 17, 2014.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images) # 13 A woman dances during church services at the Greater St Mark Family Church as the community discusses reactions to the shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, on August 17, 2014. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson) # 14 From left, Imani Harris, Cathryn Fraction, Zoi Williams (with hand at her face, bottom), Destiny Barnett and Zion Jamerison pose for a portrait with their signs during a protest of Michael Brown's murder on August 17, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.(Joshua Lott/Getty Images) # 15 A man wearing a police hat protests in Ferguson on August 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) # 16 Gabrielle Walker, 5, protests the killing of teenager Michael Brown on August 17, 2014 in Ferguson. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) # 17 A woman looks into the camera during a demonstration to protest the shooting of Michael Brown and the resulting police response to protests in Ferguson on August 15, 2014. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson) # 18 Police officers stand in position by the 911 Hair Salon as they watch demonstrators protest Michael Brown's murder on August 16, 2014.(Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images) # 19 A protester kicks a tear gas canister back towards police after protests turned violent on August 17, 2014. Shots were fired and police shouted through bullhorns for protesters to disperse, witnesses said, as chaos erupted Sunday night in Ferguson, Missouri, which has been racked by protests since an unarmed black teenager was shot by police last week. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson) # 20 Police officers react at the scene of a looting at the Dellwood Market after protests near Ferguson on August 17, 2014.(Reuters/Lucas Jackson) # 21 People protest in Ferguson on August 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) # 22 Police wait to advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd on August 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) # 23 Masked individuals carry items out of a store, during on-going demonstrations against the shooting of Michael Brown, on August 16, 2014. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson) # 24 Demonstrators attempt to stop masked individuals from entering a store that had been broken into, during demonstrations in Ferguson on August 16, 2014. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson) # 25 Demonstrators protesting the killing of teenager Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer try to stand their ground despite being overcome by tear gas on August 17, 2014. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) # 26 Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson holds a photo of Michael Brown while being interviewed during a peaceful demonstration, as communities react to Brown's shooting on August 14, 2014. (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni) # 27 Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson speaks to protesters as he walks through a peaceful demonstration in Ferguson on August 14, 2014.(Reuters/Lucas Jackson) # 28 Demonstrators raise their arms and chant, "Hands up, Don't Shoot", as police clear them from the street as they protest the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 17, 2014. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) # 29 People leave a McDonald's restaurant after taking refuge from tear gas after a protest in Ferguson on August 17, 2014.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) # 30 Demonstrators protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown hold signs on August 16, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images) #