Figure 1.--Here a Soviet peasant mother picks lice out of her little boy's hair. We are not sure why a German soldier would have taken this photograph. |
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We are not entirely sure of the motives of the German soldiers who took these photographs. The fact that they mostly took photographs in rural areas of the peasantry, commonly of ragged men, women, and children suggests that they were recording the poverty and backwardness of the society that they were destroying. Certainly novelty was a factor. Some of these photographs seem rather like those a tourist might take when viiting a poor country. Coming from Germany they would not have been familiar with such backwardness and poverty. Novely encourages photography. These images also seem to confirm many of the basic NAZI prejudices about their superiority and Soviet and Slavic backwardness.
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