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Album of the Damned: Snapshots from the Third Reich

by Paul Garson
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780897335768
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Academy Chicago Publishers
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 408
  • Original Price: INR 4100.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1574 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History and Europe / Germany

The nearly 400 WWII photographs in this book were taken primarily by German soldiers; some by civilians; some by professionals embedded with the troops.

Consequently, many of them depict everyday life: jobs, weddings, dinners, musical and other social events--men and women at work and play as well as at war, a war that nearly consumed Europe.

It is precisely the seemingly ordinary aspect of these snapshots--taken for family albums and for friends--that makes them so disturbing, because some of the subjects who smile benignly at the camera are the very same people who participated in the murder of millions of European civilians: Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Roma, intellectuals, homosexuals, clergy, adults, children, and infants. And they killed with apparent equanimity, without hesitation, without doubt, without regret.

Album of the Damned contains pictures mostly never seen before, the majority of which were once in family albums and are pictured here with their original paper frames. Their impact is deeply disturbing precisely because they are so pedestrian. Thus, in this book, the questions once again arise as they have for so many decades: How could such ordinary people commit such brutal acts? How was it possible?

The questions remain unanswerable, as they ever will be.

The author acquired these photographs from some fifteen countries during a five-year research effort, reviewing more than 100,000 images from which he made his selection. He bid in auctions against museums and private collectors to create a WWII photo history unlike perhaps any other.

Paul Garson is a freelance writer, consultant, photographer, screenwriter, editor and teacher. Over 2000 of his featured articles and stories--and some 1000 of his photographs--have appeared in more than seventy U.S. and overseas publications, including the L.A. Times, Omni, Details, Automobile, Cycle World, WWII History Magazine, Robb Report MC, Black Belt Magazine, Story, L'Ecran Fantastique. He is also the author of The Great Quill, and Born to be Wild: A History of the American Biker and Bikes, 1947-2002. He lives in Los Angeles.

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