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Nazi German photographers of the Holocaust who acted in their official capacity include Bernhard Walter [ de], Friedrich Franz Bauer, Franz Wolf, Albert Rum [ de] and Franz Suchomel. [ 5] The destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto was methodically documented in the well-illustrated Stroop Report. [ 10] Some photographs were taken by the camp ...
Heinrich Hoffmann (12 September 1885 – 16 December 1957) was Adolf Hitler 's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle. Hoffmann's photographs were a significant part of Hitler's propaganda campaign to present himself and the Nazi Party as a significant mass phenomenon.
photographs. No. 283: Trees near the gas chamber, taken shortly after No. 282. The photographer, shooting from the hip, aimed the camera too high. 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 ...
Nazi Germany, [ i] officially known as the German Reich[ j] and later the Greater German Reich, [ k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, [ l] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim ...
Influences. Classicism, Romanticism, Heroic Realism. The Nazi regime in Germany actively promoted and censored forms of art between 1933 and 1945. Upon becoming dictator in 1933, Adolf Hitler gave his personal artistic preference the force of law to a degree rarely known before.
The swastika was the first symbol of Nazism and remains strongly associated with it in the Western world. The 20th-century German Nazi Party made extensive use of graphic symbols, especially the swastika, notably in the form of the swastika flag, which became the co-national flag of Nazi Germany in 1933, and the sole national flag in 1935.
Benno von Arent – Responsible for art, theaters and movies in Nazi Germany. Heinz Auerswald – Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942. Artur Axmann – Chief of the Social Office of the Reich Youth Leadership. Leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 to 1945.
Herman Heukels (8 June 1906 – 26 April 1947) was a Dutch photographer and Nazi collaborator during the German occupation of the Netherlands. Heukels' photographs are key documentation of the Holocaust in the Netherlands; his Nazi sympathies gave him access denied others. In particular, Heukels was present at the large razzia (roundup) of ...