Not so fun fact, post war surveys showed that sympathy for the Nazis actually rose among Germans following allied attempts like these. It was only after these faded and there was mass amnesty and economic conditions improved drastically did Germans come to terms with their past.
Here is a higher quality and less cropped version of this image. Here is the best source I could find.
Photograph. German POWs, sitting in a movie theater in New York City, cover their faces while viewing footage of German murder camps. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/3/45--German prisoners shocked by atrocity pictures--This is a view of the moving pictures theater in the U.S. Army's Halloran General Hospital in New York on June 26 when German prisoners of war were shown the official films of German murder camps. Many of the prisoners covered their eyes.--International news photo through OWI Radiophoto--approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (List C out) 6970."”Staten Island, New York. 03 July 1945
veerKg_CSS_Geologist on November 15th, 2023 at 11:35 UTC »
Not so fun fact, post war surveys showed that sympathy for the Nazis actually rose among Germans following allied attempts like these. It was only after these faded and there was mass amnesty and economic conditions improved drastically did Germans come to terms with their past.
Spartan2470 on November 15th, 2023 at 13:40 UTC »
Here is a higher quality and less cropped version of this image. Here is the best source I could find.
Here is this scene from behind.
thegoodrichard on November 15th, 2023 at 13:41 UTC »
The movie Genghis Cohn explores the subject of public denial and secret retention of nazi ideology after the war. I give it all my stars.