Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 On March 5th, 1995 the Hamburg Institute for Social Research opened an exhibition focusing on the war crimes of the Wehrmacht (the regular German armed forces) during World War II. This was an attempt to dispel the ‘myth’ of the clean Wehrmacht. According to Mark Weber in his article, Fraud…
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Faked Photographs Part Three
Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 In parts one and two I covered Soviet manipulation of photographs. The USSR was not alone in deceptively using photography to promote a narrative. Consider the following photograph. It is one of many pictures featuring liberated Jews behind a barbed wire fence. There are so many photos like this…
Faked Photographs Part Two
Part 1, Part 3, Part 4 The following article from Russia Beyond presents a collection of Soviet montages that were used for propaganda. With these montages photos of various authors were cut up, assembled into collages, retouched, copied and printed in lower quality. According to the article, “The images in the final newspaper were seamless,…
Faked Photographs Part One
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 The USSR is known for manipulating photographs for political and propaganda purposes. Nearly everyone is familiar with the iconic before and after photographs below. However, otherwise rational people will forget about the Soviet’s proclivity to alter photos and will accept Soviet photographs of the Holocaust at face value. There…