Ikonen der Vernichtung : öffentlicher Gebrauch von Fotografien aus nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern nach 1945

Title
  1. Ikonen der Vernichtung : öffentlicher Gebrauch von Fotografien aus nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern nach 1945 / Cornelia Brink.
Published by
  1. Berlin : Akademie, ©1998.
Author
  1. Brink, Cornelia.

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Description
  1. 266 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. Analyzes photographs of the concentration camps taken by Allied military and civilian photographers immediately after the liberation of the camps in 1945, and their use in West Germany. Criticizes their perception as authentic representations of reality, without consideration of who took them and with what motive; for what purpose they were used in 1945 and later; and how they were received. The Allies disseminated the pictures in newspapers, brochures, and placards in order to confront the Germans with their crimes; the reaction was either rejection or horror, but in either case disassociation from the crimes, which were committed by "them", not "us". Pictures and films were used in war crimes trials, but played a secondary role. In 1960, Gerhard Schoenberner's "Der gelbe Stern" became the first, and still the best known, of many collections of Holocaust photographs. It shows types - "the" camp, "the" perpetrator, "the" victim, and tends to differentiate between the passive and therefore guiltless German people and the Nazi leaders. Photographs are also part of educational exhibitions at memorial sites. Again the use of horror photographs is counterproductive: children cannot cope with them and repress them. The traditional photographs show Jews as anonymous victims; they must be complemented by pictures showing the rich Jewish life before the Holocaust. Pictures of Jews in their degradation may also arouse in the viewer the same voyeurism that motivated the Nazi photographer. Mentions ways in which museum staff have tried to deal with these problems. But the repeated use of the same photographs has turned them into icons about which we cease to think.
Subject
  1. Arbeitserziehungslager Jägala
  2. Bundesprüfstelle für Jugendgefährdende Schriften Bonn Jahrestagung
  3. BMBF-Statusseminar
  4. 1939-1945
  5. World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Documentation > Germany
  6. World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Documentation > Germany
  7. Nazi concentration camps > Documentation > Germany
  8. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Documentation > Germany
  9. Documentary photography > Germany
  10. Internment camps
  11. Nazi concentration camps > Documentation
  12. Atrocities
  13. Documentary photography
  14. Documentation
  15. Fotografie
  16. Judenverfolgung
  17. Konzentrationslager
  18. Politische Bildung
  19. Vergangenheitsbewältigung
  20. Öffentliche Meinung
  21. Fotografie
  22. Gedenkstätte
  23. Nationalsozialismus
  24. Nationalsozialistisches Verbrechen
  25. Politische Bildung
  26. Rezeption
  27. Judenvernichtung
  28. Öffentlichkeit
  29. Konzentrationslager
  30. Holocaust
  31. Concentratiekampen
  32. Oorlogsfotografie
  33. Germany
  34. Deutschland
Genre/Form
  1. Bildband.
  2. Hochschulschrift.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-264).