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The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
The Höcker Album (or Hoecker Album) is a collection of photographs believed to have been collected by Karl-Friedrich Höcker, an officer in the SS during the Nazi regime in Germany. It contains over one hundred images of the lives and living conditions of the officers and administrators who ran the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex.
Some of them became highly recognized images of World War II and the Shoah. Photographic captions in the Report are handwritten in the Sütterlin style. The captions contain few facts about the photos' content, and in some cases do not match the images at all. The captions often express the racist mindset of the report's authors.
Some of the pictures show women prisoners who had been subjected to medical experiments, and the photographs shown the injuries caused to their legs by Nazi "doctors". [2] In one procedure, gangrene was injected into an open wound. [2] The film concludes with a detailed examination of the photographs made adjacent to a gas chamber at Auschwitz ...
Herman helped manage and grow the family business; the family cut and sold glasses as well as photographs and photo equipment. In the 1930s, Heukels became a successful press photographer. His photos were published in illustrated magazines and books. The brothers joined the NSB (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging), the Dutch fascist and pro-Nazi ...
Tom of Finland Laaksonen c. 1959 Born Touko Valio Laaksonen 8 May 1920 Kaarina, Finland Died 7 November 1991 (1991-11-07) (aged 71) Helsinki, Finland Known for Erotic illustration Awards Puupäähattu Prize (The Finnish Comics Society, 1990), Signature Website www.tomoffinland.org Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish ...
Nazi theory explicitly rejected "materialism", and therefore, despite the realistic treatment of images, "realism" was a seldom used term. [39] A painter was to create an ideal picture, for eternity. [39] The images of men, and still more of women, were heavily stereotyped, [40] with physical perfection required for the nude paintings. [41]
There are six victims in the photograph. The body lying at the feet of the German soldier appears to be a woman who was already shot. In the center of the photograph is a woman who appears to be shielding a child. One of her feet is raised as if she is trying to flee, or else the photograph was taken just after she was shot. To her right are ...