As she states this subject has always contained a lot of controversy and thus another view on the life of both civilians and soldiers during this historical period can clarify some misunderstandings. Through Amateur Eyes addresses the ‘problems of hermeneutics’ by looking from a unique perspective at a series of still and moving images taken by German soldiers and civilians, both Nazis and non-Nazis during World War II. A lot of these pictures depict the death campus and the ghettos. They can be understood in terms of their visual instantiation of Nazi ideology and especially the anti-Semitism
As she states this subject has always contained a lot of controversy and thus another view on the life of both civilians and soldiers during this historical period can clarify some misunderstandings. Through Amateur Eyes addresses the ‘problems of hermeneutics’ by looking from a unique perspective at a series of still and moving images taken by German soldiers and civilians, both Nazis and non-Nazis during World War II. A lot of these pictures depict the death campus and the ghettos. They can be understood in terms of their visual instantiation of Nazi ideology and especially the anti-Semitism