The incredible photographs of Adolf Hitler, German soldiers, and Jewish prisoners in occupied Soviet Belarus (including the Minsk Ghetto) that the New York Times Lens blog posted yesterday (and that I linked to) were the handiwork of one Franz Krieger, Lens quickly learned. Harriet Scharnberg, a scholar primarily of Nazi propaganda photographs that depicted Jews, wrote in to make the identification. Krieger died in 1993, although his wife (featured in several of the photographs) and two-year-old child were killed in Allied bombardment of Salzburg, Austria, in 1944.
World War II Mystery Solved in a Few Hours [Lens]
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Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.