• FringeTheory999@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    they don’t care. they’re just trying to hide their faces from the photographer. people always take this photo as an indication of shock or remorse, but in reality, they don’t want their pictures taken. That’s it., i’m sure.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think their concern was their faces being seen. Cancel culture wasn’t exactly a thing at the time. It was widely known in the German population that the Jewish population was being deported to prison camps, but the details of extermination were not necessarily well-known, or believed. These men are being confronted with the reality of what they fought for.

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        1 year ago

        Bro, most of the guys literally dont even cover their eyes if you look closer. They dont want fucking pictures taken.

        You dont need to have cancel culture to not want to be photographed as a POW while watching something disgusting. Its embarassing.

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      1 year ago

      The mayor of one of the neighboring towns to a camp hung himself after the forced tour of it post-liberation.

      It’s one thing to ignore authoritarians going after a minority group and turn a blind eye, especially when speaking up or opposing those authoritarians can get you killed.

      But it’s entirely a different thing to be directly confronted with the suffering you’d turned a blind eye to.

      Just as we saw with the Milgram experiment that obedience to authority was not a ‘German’ thing but a ‘human’ thing, I wouldn’t be so quick to ‘other-ize’ the flip side of the empathy of the POWs pictured here.

      • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Looks like he’s resting his head on two spread fingers. You can see the dimple where it’s pressing into his cheek.

        I mean, maybe it’s a V sign, but I rest my head on two fingers like that when watching a presentation, so I’m inclined to interpret it as such.

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        1 year ago

        Oh my goodness, some of you guys hang on to any straw they can find. Amazing to see.