KZ - Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern [“Photo Report from Five Concentration Camps.”]

(HOLOCAUST)

American War Information Unit

n.p.

(1945)

FIRST EDITION . German text. 44 black-and-white photos by anonymous photographers

“This book…may represent the single most significant use of photography as a witness in the medium’s history” (Martin Parr, The Photobook: A History, Vol. I, p. 194). This momentous book was distributed in Germany by the American War Information Unit at the conclusion of World War II in order to impress upon the civilian population the severity of the war crimes committed by the Nazis in the name of the German people. The concentration camps represented are: Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, Nordhausen and Ohrdruf. The final images are of General Dwight Eisenhower witnessing the atrocious sights of Ohrdruf.