Propaganda photo showing a German soldier guarding a bonfire of burning mattresses.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 92068

Overview

Caption: Propaganda photo showing a German soldier guarding a bonfire of burning mattresses.

The original caption reads: "Roach and lice-ridden Jewish beds being burned in the market square in Myslenice."

The photograph was part of a series of stereographic prints depicting the occupation of Poland entitled "Die Soldaten des Fuehrers im Felde." (The Fuhrer's soldiers in the field. The photographs were mass produced and published by Raumbild-Verlag-Otto Schönstein.
Photographer: Heinrich Hoffmann
Date: 1939
Locale: Myslenice, [Krakow] Poland
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Stephen Fisher

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Stephen Fisher

Source Record ID: Collections: 2010.99

Second Record ID: Die Soldaten des Fuehrers im Felde: Bild Nr. 95

Keyword: CHILDREN/YOUTH FIRES MYSLENICE PHOTOGRAPHS (STEREOSCOPIC) PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH) PROPAGANDA (NAZI) PUBLIC SQUARES SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) STREET SCENES
Photo Designation: GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (M)