The German historian Stephan Scholz argues that many images used by the media to illustrate the fate of the German expellees from Eastern Europe after World War II, in fact, created earlier, sometimes on the order of Nazi propaganda.
According to the researcher from Oldenburg such untrue material found among others in a three-part series “Expelled” aired in 2001, the first public television ARD program. In the first part of the “Escape” was a few seconds of the sequence derived from the Nazi newsreel Wochenschau 1940.
Photos fleeing women and children, often reprinted by magazines like “Geo” and newspaper “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” or “Bild “as examples of the Germans to escape the advancing Red Army in the years 1944/1945, were taken by British photographer Fred Ramage and provide former prisoners of concentration camps who came to Berlin after the war from Lodz.
In turn, the documentation” Great Escape “the second program of public television ZDF uses image of film made in 1927, showing the fate of the Germans in Upper Silesia after the First World War. ZDF showed pictures of Wochenschau the 1940 film about the sinking of the Soviet submarine ship “Wilhelm Gustloff” in 1945.
ARD and ZDF have confirmed the use of inappropriate materials. You can not now say, as there was confusion – said a spokeswoman for ARD. Editorial pointed out that the pictures in the archives are often provided with false signatures.
Scholz described numerous instances of improper use of the media pictures in the latest issue of the professional journal “Zeithistorische Forschungen”. He called on this occasion a more responsible management of historical materials. – You need to know where they come from historical photos – said the historian.
The raid with photos announced in the latest issue of the weekly magazine “Der Spiegel”.
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