Some say it was taken in Toulon as the French soldiers leave for Africa. Some […]
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Jesse Owens
Hitler used the 1936 Olympics as a propaganda tool, inadvertently creating the modern Games, complete […]
Nuit et Brouillard by Alain Resnais, 1966
The photograph taken at Pithiviers concentration camp encapsulated the Vichy Government’s role in the persecution of French Jews. The controversial image was featured in Alain Resnais’ documentary, Nuit et Brouillard. It caused an uproar leading to its censorship and the film’s withdrawal from the Cannes Film Festival.
Dora Concentration Camp by Walter Frentz, 1944
Walter Frentz, known as Hitler’s favorite photographer, was commissioned by Albert Speer, German Armaments Minister, to photograph and film rocket assembly at Mittelwerk, the underground factory at Dora
The Rape of Lvov, 1941
A rape victim in Lvov cries out in rage and anguish — who were the perpetrators? The Soviets? The Ukrainians? The SS? or Local anti-Semites?
Anne Frank
If a single individual could be held up to “personify” the Holocaust, that person would […]
Millimetternich Assassinated
In February 1934, in a desperate bid to prevent a German takeover of Austria, Austrian […]
The Execution of Masha Bruskina
In October 1941, at Minsk, Belorussia (then occupied by the Nazis), a 17-year-old Soviet Jewish partisan Masha […]
Yevgeny Khaldei and Hermann Goering
Best known for his Reichstag flag rising picture, Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-1997) was the premier Red Army […]
The Kremlin Bombarded
Unlike most photographers, she was as famous as her pictures. Margaret Bourke-White was an institution, […]