On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:33:20 -0500, Erinnerungen <ugh@bingbam.com>
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.
Afk for a few days, so only now saw this. Thank you and your friend
very much for this series. Some were really unique and fascinating,
with many showing sides of the war rarely seen.
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