[Henri Dunant, Genève-Convention and Red Cross: a historical view]

Several appalling reports throughout the ages are at hand concerning the inhuman treatment of the wounded persons at the battlefields where they were left without any help, killed and maybe taken away as slaves. Not until Napoleon's time there was from military as well as civil side raised claim on the human treatment and a real sanitary service. The demands were advanced with weight of persons like Larrey, Dufour adn Dunant, who was the prime mover in all the efforts, at last leading to his "Un Souvenir de Solferino", which helped making the way for the Genève-Convention 22. August 1864, and afterwards the foundation of the Red Cross, thus as we today know it as the biggest international relief-organization in the world.