Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Progressive Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (1993) 5-56
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Sources
;
World War, 1939-1945 Photography
Abstract:
An analysis, based on secondary materials, of the use of photography during the Holocaust as a communications and propaganda device by the Nazis, their victims, and their opponents. Describes the Nazi regime's strict control over photographers and their output. Photographs were used to report or circulate versions of officially approved anti-Jewish activities (e.g. the 1933 boycott, "Kristallnacht, " ghetto life, life in concentration camps), and to inculcate antisemitism by drawing upon stock caricatures of Jews (e.g. Jewish decay and filth, sexual perversity, the Jew as exploiter and miser). Discusses, also, unofficial photographs taken by Germans or their allies, photographs made by Jews as an effort to leave historical testimony, anonymous photos made by resistance fighters, and photos made by the Allied liberators. Concludes that for a better understanding of the usage of photography during the Holocaust, research must be conducted in which the original prints are examined in the various archives.
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