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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.
During the Nazi regime he was used to document events due to his personal contacts with Heinrich Himmler. He was known as Himmler's personal photographer. On July 16, 1933, Bauer wrote and published a propaganda photo report about the Dachau concentration camp in the journal Munich Illustrated Press .
The images follow the processing of newly arrived Hungarian Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia in the spring and summer of 1944. [2] They document the disembarkation of the Jewish prisoners from the train boxcars, followed by the selection process, performed by doctors of the SS and wardens of the camp, which separated those who were considered fit for work from those who were to be sent to the gas ...
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]
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A chart used to illustrate the Nazi Nuremberg Laws introduced in 1935. The Nazi party and thereafter also the regime (1933—1945) repeatedly used the term Untermensch in writings and speeches which they directed against the Jews. In the pamphlet "The SS as an Anti-Bolshevist Fighting Organization", published in 1936, Himmler wrote:
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 ...