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Sunday, 16 December 2012

Another famous Holocaust photo is a fraud

Update: January 18, 2013, a far better version of the NYT photo below has now been obtained: http://winstonsmithministryoftruth.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-most-famous-holocaust-photo-fraud.html

Photo source: Furtherglory, creator of scrapbookpages

Furtherglory wrote of this photo:

"The famous photo above was taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp, inside Block #56, by Private H. Miller of the Civil Affairs Branch of the U. S. Army Signal Corps on April 16, 1945, five days after the camp was liberated by the Sixth Armored Division of the US Third Army on April 11, 1945. The photo was published by the New York Times on May 6, 1945 with the caption “Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald.”"

Above is the photograph which appeared in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday, May 6, 1945 (full article, parts: one + two). You might notice (my admirer Carolyn Yeager had to point it out to me) that the guy standing on the right of the photograph has disappeared (or not yet appeared, more likely). The original article can be purchased on the New York Times' online archive, here is a link to this particular story. If the link is ever broken, a search for: "Crowded bunks in the prison camp at Buchenwald" on Google news' "archive" range, will find you the story.

His left arm doesn't look at all natural against the wooden post.

Contrast the acutance of the left arms against the posts.

Which is likely why the arm was mostly cropped on this display photo at the Buchenwald museum. This photo was taken on 29th January, 2012, and uploaded onto the web by philFlickrID.

Above is Obama on his pilgrimage to Buchenwald back in 2009, he's having "Elie Wiesel" pointed out to him on a large version of the photo from which the standing man has been cropped.

Clearly this photo was manipulated very soon after it was taken

photo source: Furtherglory, creator of scrapbookpages

Furtherglory wrote of the above photo:

"A traveling exhibit of huge, larger than life size photographs from the Nazi concentration camps, including Buchenwald, was first shown in St. Louis, MO in 1945 and then taken to Washington, DC. The photo above was taken in Summer — notice the white shoes."

OLDER NEWSPAPERS HAVE THE DOCTORED MAN IN THEM

This cropped version of the photograph appeared in The New York Times, Sunday, April 29, 1945, p.20 (section one)

The above appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Sunday April 29, 1945, a week before
the photo minus the standing man appeared in The New York Times Magazine.

The above appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (OH), Sunday April 29, 1945, p.8A.

The above is taken from the Monday, April 30, 1945, p.4 edition of the Moberly Monitor-Index (Missouri).

The doctored photo also appeared in the Altoona Mirror (PA), April 30, 1945, p.1.

[Addendum by RI: Altoona Mirror (PA), April 30, 1945, p.1. Click image to enlarge.]

And it appeared in The Monessen Daily Independent (PA), May 1, 1945, p.2.

Posted by The Black Rabbit of Inlé at 04:52

5 comments:

Anonymous16 December 2012 at 19:26
Is there a picture of the bunks with the man absent that's of the same quality as the first photo used from Furtherglory? The only picture that has the man absent presented here is of very low newspaper quality, which could have possibly been the result of the newspaper cropping him out because they didn't want to use a picture of a man nearly nude? Just a thought.
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The Black Rabbit of Inlé16 December 2012 at 23:05
No there's not.

But it's not been cropped,as the post is still visible.

As you can see from the two other newspaper photos from 1945, which are of equally poor quality, the standing man is visible.
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Anonymous17 December 2012 at 16:01
With regard to the standing man the head and body do not correspond. The head is of an adequately nourished man of about 25-35, the body is of someone malnourished or having disease eg TB. I suspect when the photo was taken and sent for evaluation at pychops the young mad was wearing clothing and appeared to healthy and consequently the body was added on. The original photo will be somewhere and the original snap of the emaciated body as well.
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Anonymous28 December 2012 at 17:37
Similar case: http://www.eliewieseltattoo.com/a-second-naked-man-in-buchenwald-barracks-forgery/
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The Black Rabbit of Inlé28 December 2012 at 19:18
That picture looks fine to me. There nothing that suggests (Carolyn Yeager aside) that it's been doctored.
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