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PHOTO #5
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 view of the death march from Dachau passing through villages in the direction of
Wolfratshausen. German civilians secretly photographed several death marches from the Dachau
concentration camp as the prisoners moved slowly through the Bavarian towns of Gruenwald,
Wolfratshausen, and Herbertshausen. Few civilians gave aid to the prisoners on the death marches.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Questions for this photograph after you give them the background information:
In the upper right hand corner you can see the roof of the house, meaning that this photo is taken from
inside a building. Why take this photo?
Many German citizens claimed to not know what the Nazis were doing to the Jews and to other minorities.
How does this photo related to that assertion?
Is the person taking the photo a bystander? Collaborator? Perpetrator? Victim?
