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It depicted men wearing business suits seated aside bent-over naked figures who formed a table while playing a Monopoly-like board game that rested on the naked figures' backs. Overseeing the scene is an Eye of Providence surrounded by images of industry and protest.
The photograph dates from some time between mid-1941, when the Germans occupied the oblast (region) of Vinnytsia, and 1943. [2] During this period there were numerous massacres of Jews in the oblast, [3] including in the town itself on 16 and 22 September 1941 and April 1942, after which those spared were sent to labour camps and Yerusalimka, Vinnitsa's Jewish quarter, was largely razed.
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A number of surviving photographs documenting Holocaust atrocities were used as evidence during post war trials of Nazi war crimes, such as the Nuremberg trials. [5] They have been used as symbolic, impactful evidence to educate the world about the true nature of Nazi atrocities.
The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando , inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
The Herero genocide has commanded the attention of historians who study complex issues of continuity between the Herero genocide and the Holocaust. [109] It is argued that the Herero genocide set a precedent in Imperial Germany that would later be followed by Nazi Germany's establishment of death camps. [110] [111]
[4] The triad is also used in studying the psychology of genocide. [5] [6] [7] It has become a key element of scholarship on genocide, with subsequent researchers refining the concept and applying it to new fields. Initial analyses of atrocities such as the Holocaust discussed these events simply as violence by perpetrators against victims.
A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide is a 2014 book by Alon Confino published by Yale University Press, which seeks to explain Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust by looking into the imaginations and fantasies of Nazis. It received mixed reviews in scholarly and popular publications.