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Article: THE BANALITY OF EVIL No gas chambers, no piles of bones, but these recently rediscovered photos are some of the most unsettling and remarkable images of life inside a Nazi camp - and they survived because of one brave Spanish prisoner. Justin Webster reports
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2003
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Last October, a small exhibition in Barcelona marked the end of a
long, tortuous journey made by some of the most remarkable
photographs to survive the Second World War. What makes them so
extraordinary is when, by whom and why they were taken - and how they
survived.
Although they document the Nazi concentration camps, they do not
have the immediate, shocking impact of the more famous icons: the
piles of emaciated bodies pictured in 1945, for example, by the
British photographer George Rodger, who covered the liberation of
Bergen Belsen by US troops for Life magazine.
Instead, the special power of the images shown on these pages
arises from a more subtle notion: that they were taken with ...