Faces of war

[rednas]

Not a photo but a small movieclip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZjiwNdvWDs

[Peiper]

Good posts gents
I would say this sums it up, sorry if some find it offensive but after all that's what War does!

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[Jeppsson |11.SS|]

Good posts gents
I would say this sums it up, sorry if some find it offensive but after all that's what War does!

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Peiper.

Sad Photo...

[Franz repper]

Good posts gents
I would say this sums it up, sorry if some find it offensive but after all that's what War does!



Peiper.

Sad Photo...

Yes Its not the face of war but the price of war

[Ziggy]

I posted the following picture yesterday and have since been inundated with positive and "not so positive" PMs.... Anyway, I knew a bit about the photo but I though I's dig around to fill in what I didn't know about it.

"Czesława Kwoka was born in Wólka Złojecka, a small village in Poland, to a Catholic mother, Katarzyna Kwoka. Along with her mother (prisoner number 26946), Czesława Kwoka (prisoner number 26947) was deported and transported from Zamość, Poland, to Auschwitz, on December 13, 1942. On March 12, 1943, less than a month after her mother died (February 18, 1943), Czesława Kwoka died at the age of 14; the circumstances of her death were not recorded."

The photograph was taken as an identity document by Willhelm Brasse who was also imprisoned the 'Germans' but managed to survive the camp. Many of the photgraphs and negatives were burned Brasse hid some to document the people who suffered under German rule and evidence to what happened there.
"She was so young and so terrified. The girl didn't understand why she was there and she couldn't understand what was being said to her.

Czesława Kwoka's exprssion also left an impression on Brasse who remember very vividly taking here picture. He recounts;-

'She was so young and so terrified. The girl didn't understand why she was there and she couldn't understand what was being said to her.

So this woman Kapo (a prisoner overseer) took a stick and beat her about the face. This German woman was just taking out her anger on the girl. Such a beautiful young girl, so innocent. She cried but she could do nothing.'

Before the photograph was taken, the girl dried her tears and the blood from the cut on her lip. 'To tell you the truth, I felt as if I was being hit myself but I couldn't interfere. It would have been fatal for me. You could never say anything.

[Tychsen]

Ziggy unfortunately this is another face of the same war , a face which made WW2 unique and unlike any other seen until that time.
The process which led to genocide does not have to be discussed in depth but the face of the prisoner is evry bit as much a victim of the war and Adolf Hitler as any of the dead or wounded soldiers seen in this thread.

[Peiper]

Ziggy unfortunately this is another face of the same war , a face which made WW2 unique and unlike any other seen until that time.
The process which led to genocide does not have to be discussed in depth but the face of the prisoner is evry bit as much a victim of the war and Adolf Hitler as any of the dead or wounded soldiers seen in this thread.

Very true Tychsen!

That last picture is indeed a "Face of War" and needs to be seen, i had posted the other
photo's myself of German soldiers because this is a German Reenactment thread, but
you are correct the image of the girl was a victim of the same War and hopefully such
images will never be seen again.

Here are some "other" faces, not German but never the less "faces of victims"

THE AFTERMATH

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British and American burial party.

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Liberation of Chinese girl from Japanese labour camp.

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Liberation of American POW's from Japanese Prison camp.

Regards Peiper.

[Tychsen]

One of the less well known but quiet startling photos to come from the last war - this shows part of a transport from Hungary which was recieved into Birkenau in May 1944.
The little girl ( second from the left , beside the lady standing) looking at the photographer was identified in recent years as being Gerti Mermelstein , also in the photo her sister , mother and grandmother.
They were shortly afterwards gassed in Unit 4 , today the same trees still stand apart from the blown up gas chambers and the adjacent "Kanada" section the location is largely unchanged.

The child is symbolic of all children who died a violent death in WW2 be they English , German , French , Russian , Czech , Italian or Greek , her face speaks for them all.

[Tychsen]

Two from Buchiems photo studies of a war cruise on U-96.



The sonar man listening to the sounds of attacking destroyers.......his face betrays the concentration required.



Lehmann-Willenbrock in sheepskin and wearing his white topped cap - the photos are blurred and shaken , grainy detail as it was shot on a supoerfast film without flash in the dim light of a boat which was under attack , the blur is due to the boat beings shaken by depth charges.
A scene which exists only in this roll of film.

[Ropes]

[Peiper]

Ahh the Dirlewanger eh Ropes

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[Peiper]

Here's a couple more!!

Epic Pics.

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[Peiper]

A few others

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[Ropes]

Ahh the Dirlewanger eh Ropes

Peiper

Yea I didnt know if i shoud put it in. Im not sure if its because I know what unit they are but theres somthing ive always found a little predatory and unsettling about that photo.

[Pug42]

That pic always reminds me of a pack of wolves about to go for a kill....