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1 lut 2005 · The photos then became evidence in the trials against German war criminals in the Soviet Union and later in the legal processing of the Nazi criminals in Germany.
We bring together historians from Britain, Germany, and the United States to consider the power of photography for framing the history of twentieth-century Germany. Photos offer a seemingly immediate window onto familiar and unfamiliar dimensions of that history, including its ruptures and upheavals.
Cameras were in short supply and with plans for an expansion of the small film unit into the AFPU, the War Office had to buy cameras from whatever sources they could find, as well as appealing to the public for donations of Leicas, Contax and Zeiss Super Ikonta cameras - all of German manufacture.
17 paź 2020 · Ironically, the cameras mostly sought were German. A Cold War that began as Second World War hostilities ceased, and born out of a mutual distrust between America and the Soviet Union, was epitomized photographically by cameras for espionage.
31 sie 2022 · The result was the suppression of political opposition, the creation of strong propaganda machines, and the start of aggressive policies on territorial expansion. The war broke out in early September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland and a consequent war declaration by France and Britain on the Nazi regime.
11 lis 2021 · While some early versions were developed in the late-1920s, it wasn’t until just before the war that night vision was issued to units within the German army. Towards the end of the war, a...
By the 1840s, the struggle between known science and trial and error had produced the first photographs—moments of light captured on metal or glass, preserved “forever.”. Humans were instantly hooked. By the 1940s the camera was well established as a form of expression and a very practical tool.
