
Never Before Seen Photos of Kristallnact, the Nazi Assault on Jews in 1938
Newly discovered photos show the horror of Kristallnacht when Nazi thugs destroyed the businesses of Jewish people and started the events that would lead to the Holocaust.
Newly discovered photos show the horror of Kristallnacht when Nazi thugs destroyed the businesses of Jewish people and started the events that would lead to the Holocaust.
Photos of Nazis partying and relaxing as thousands of people died at nearby death camps have inspired a new play.
Herman Heukels' photographs of Jewish people being rounded up in Amsterdam in 1943 are some of the strongest visual evidence used by historians to illustrate the Holocaust in the Netherlands.
A new documentary explores the secret and unauthorized photographs that concentration camp prisoners clandestinely took during the Second World War.
The Leica Freedom Train was not a physical coal or steam engine, but the monumental effort of the Leitz family. This is how they and the Leica camera company saved hundreds of Jews from persecution at the hands of the Nazis.
Faye Schulman was a Jewish partisan photographer who courageously fought against Nazis with both a gun and a camera. She was the only photographer to document resistance efforts in Eastern Europe during World War II.
I'm urban exploration photographer Dave of Freaktography.com, and this is the story of how I found two sets of forgotten war medals in an abandoned house (and what I decided to do with them).
Hitler's personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, was one of the infamous dictator's primary propagandists, and tens of thousands of the photographer's photos exist on glass plate negatives. Now a large number of those rare photos are being revealed with a new level of clarity through a digitization effort by the National Archives.
This complex, built in the end of the 19th century, was on my wish list for a very long time. When the opportunity arose to visit it, I grabbed my chance and carefully planned the exploration.
Bellamy Hunt of Japan Camera Hunter recently stumbled across a very rare Leica IIIc Red Curtain Rangefinder -- rare because it comes complete with Nazi engravings on it. And though these Nazi symbols were not placed on the camera by Leica themselves -- the company actually helped Jews flee Nazi Germany during the Holocaust -- it's still a fascinating camera find.
In the past, we've shared several online archives that give you access to a huge number of historical and historically significant photos online.
PhotosNormandie offered up 3,000+ CC photos from WWII, the NYC Department of Records compiled a database of over 870,000 photos of "the greatest city on earth," and now the Finnish Defense Forces have put up an online archive of their own, showcasing almost 160,000 wartime photos from Finland during WWII.
In September 1933, LIFE magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt traveled to Geneva to document a meeting of the League of Nations. One of the political figures at the gathering was Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, one of Hitlers most devout underlings and a man who became known for his "homicidal anti-Semitism."
Earlier this week the New York Times was lent a mysterious photo album that contained 214 photos of Nazi Germany, including images taken just feet away from Hitler. There was no indication of who the photographer was, so the Lens blog decided to publish some of the photos and crowdsource the task of solving the mystery.
Last week we briefly wrote on how Leica played a role in saving Jews by helping them …
Did you know that Leica boss Ernst Leitz II is considered the “photographic industry equivalent of …