> 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.
>
>
I agree. Thank you and your German collaborator. I have learned a
great deal from these photos.
Bob
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