Olga Kartashova
Fieldwork/mid-term paper for the course:
Mass atrocities in the fog of war. Perpetration and prosecution in the 20th century. (Vladimir Petrovic, Imogen Bayley) Source: http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1447677685/
Last week I have visited the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. Comparing to other museums which are dedicated to this issue (Schindler’s Factory in Krakow, Polin in Warsaw, Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow) the museum in Budapest leaves an impression of rather poor and much disorganized exhibition. However, among the collection one photo drew my attention (see above).
The photo appears in Internet in two versions, obviously shots were taken one after another. We can see Jews – men, women and children being convoyed by a soldier. Their hands are raised. There are yellow stars on the clothes. The most expressive is the triangle between 3 points: German or Hungarian soldier with machine gun aggressively watching the deportees, Jewish man looks with desperation somewhere down and little girl looks at the soldier with fear. Notice the smiling people in the background smiling and without their hands raised. They are Hungarians and perhaps ethnic Germans who are clearly …show more content…
Faupel was in Budapest in time for two significant events - Operation Panzerfaust, which occurred on 15 October 1944 and the German transports of Hungarian Jews from Budapest. Faupel was the author of several well-known photographs of both events. There is no information about what orders the Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces Propaganda Company - PK) photographers were given. There are many images recording what was being done to the Jews - except the actual killing in the death camps. It is unclear just what was planned to do with those images showing war
Fieldwork/mid-term paper for the course:
Mass atrocities in the fog of war. Perpetration and prosecution in the 20th century. (Vladimir Petrovic, Imogen Bayley) Source: http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1447677685/
Last week I have visited the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. Comparing to other museums which are dedicated to this issue (Schindler’s Factory in Krakow, Polin in Warsaw, Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow) the museum in Budapest leaves an impression of rather poor and much disorganized exhibition. However, among the collection one photo drew my attention (see above).
The photo appears in Internet in two versions, obviously shots were taken one after another. We can see Jews – men, women and children being convoyed by a soldier. Their hands are raised. There are yellow stars on the clothes. The most expressive is the triangle between 3 points: German or Hungarian soldier with machine gun aggressively watching the deportees, Jewish man looks with desperation somewhere down and little girl looks at the soldier with fear. Notice the smiling people in the background smiling and without their hands raised. They are Hungarians and perhaps ethnic Germans who are clearly …show more content…
Faupel was in Budapest in time for two significant events - Operation Panzerfaust, which occurred on 15 October 1944 and the German transports of Hungarian Jews from Budapest. Faupel was the author of several well-known photographs of both events. There is no information about what orders the Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces Propaganda Company - PK) photographers were given. There are many images recording what was being done to the Jews - except the actual killing in the death camps. It is unclear just what was planned to do with those images showing war