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RiŠardo (here@glorious-somerset.uk) 2015/01/15 12:55

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On 15/01/2015 18:33, Erinnerungen wrote:
> That's about all the photos, for now. My friend in Germany has been
> doing the really hard work of sorting these photos, scanning hundreds
> of private photos, authenticating many of them and trying to match up
> the "official" ones with the photographer who took them. Turns out
> some of these PKK photographers took untold thousands of photos (and
> movie film) of the war on the eastern front and my guess is most of
> them are either missing, destroyed, sitting in some basement trunk in
> Germany or in Russian hands (particularily the photos confiscated from
> POWs at the time of capture) Most of the POW photos would have wound
> up in the NKVD or GRU archives and it is said there are even some in
> Stalin's personal archive.
> We still have many hundreds of photos that were not posted but most of
> them fall into two categories-photos takens at the funeral, burial or
> mass burial of German or Russian military personnel and photos
> depicting atrocities on German officers and soldiers-of course there
> are none showing atrocities against Russian personnel-not
> surprisingly.
> The photos showing atrocities against German troops come from an
> organization called the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau which, believe it
> or not, was an actual military/judicial tribunal set up in 1939 by the
> German High Command.
> That this organization even existed was one of the surprising facts we
> dug up.
>

Thank you for such an extensive and valuable contribution Erinnerungen.
It has been a fascinating journey with these many high quality
photographs, aided by the excellence of the supplementary information.

Most impressive.



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