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Why take this photograph? You can ask this both before and after you explain the photo.
What does this tell you about the experience of people under Nazi oppression?
Share the description with the students and continue to ask questions.
Description:
German policemen supervising the deportation of Jewish men during the
Kristallnacht
riots.
Yad Vashem Photo Archive
Questions for this photograph after you give them the background information:
How do we know they are Jews?
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They are being escorted.
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None of them is wearing hats. Point out to the students that all the men in the crowd are wearing
hats, culturally appropriate for the time, while the men being walked are not. Having a hat is a
symbol of being a citizen
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Why do the Nazis want to document this?
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What does a photograph like this do for the Nazis?
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The town is watching this. Why would people stop work to see this?
PHOTO #4:
Questions for this photograph before you give them the background information:
Who are these people?
What is their gender and how do you know?
What are they doing?
Why take this photograph? You can ask this both before and after you explain
the photo.
What does this tell you about the experience of people under Nazi oppression?
Share the description with the students and continue to ask questions.
Description:
A young man who allegedly had illicit relations with a Jewish woman is marched through the
streets for public humiliation. Flanked by German police officers, he wears a sign that reads, "I am a defiler
of the race." He was sentenced to 3.5 years prison and sent to concentration camps.
(USHMM)
Questions for this photograph after you give them the background information:
Make note of the civilians in the photo. Do they support what is happening or do they just want to be in the
picture?
The man is wearing the sign, but not the woman. Why might this be?
Is the shop owner a bystander? Collaborator? Perpetrator?
