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Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive

  • Written by Wolf Gruner, Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageDeportation of Jews in Bielefeld, Germany, on Dec. 13, 1941. Courtesy City Archive Bielefeld, CC BY-SA

The Holocaust was the first mass atrocity to be heavily photographed.

The mass production and distribution of cameras in the 1930s and 1940s enabled Nazi officials and ordinary people to widely document Germany’s persecution of Jews and other...

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