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Background information
Photographs were a central medium for the SS to document their sphere of rule: the buildings of the camps, the visits of high officials, the identification records of the prisoners and their work assignments as well as the murder of prisoners. Such photos were not only taken for the files and archives of the SS. Despite a general ban, SS men and residents of the neighboring villages of the camp took photos for private purposes.
Content
This volume, 'Staging, Snapshot, Documentation' is the first to publish selected photo holdings from the Flossenbürg camp complex. The recordings are understood as self-testimony of the perpetrators and supplemented by commentary articles. The contributions deal with the contexts of origin and the context of transmission of the recordings, some of which have become icons of contemporary history. Not only the men who participated in the crimes become visible in the photographs. They also provide insights into their time off duty and thus mark the interfaces between offenders and the civilian population. In addition, the analysis of these pictorial sources allows conclusions to be drawn about the lives and careers of individual SS men and enables new insights into the organizational and network structure of the SS guards. Previously unpublished photos of SS men from the Flossenbürg concentration camp show new facets of National Socialist perpetration.
Authors
Julius Scharnetzky, born 1985, is a historian and historical-political educator and has been a research assistant at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial since 2011. Publications on the politics of exclusion under National Socialism, especially ...
Jörg Skriebeleit, born in 1968, is a cultural scientist and historian and has been director of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial since 1999. Numerous publications on the culture of remembrance and the history of the Flossenbürg concentration camp.