Perpetrators at Play (Voices on Genocide Prevention)
Series: Voices on Genocide Prevention
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:22:44
Archivist Becky Erbelding speaks with Jerry Fowler about an important addition to the Holocaust Museum's collection -- a personal photo album with pictures chronicling the lives of SS officers and other Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The rare images capture Nazi officials relaxing and enjoying time off while Jews were being murdered at rates as fast as anytime during the Holocaust.
View the photo collection and learn more about the album online at http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/highlights/auschwitz/
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Piece Description
Archivist Becky Erbelding speaks with Jerry Fowler about an important addition to the Holocaust Museum's collection -- a personal photo album with pictures chronicling the lives of SS officers and other Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The rare images capture Nazi officials relaxing and enjoying time off while Jews were being murdered at rates as fast as anytime during the Holocaust. View the photo collection and learn more about the album online at http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/highlights/auschwitz/
Broadcast History
Posted to US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Web site on October 4, 2007 and is available on various Web-based distribution sites, namely iTunes.
Transcript
OCTOBER 4, 2007, PERPETRATORS AT PLAY
JERRY FOWLER: My guest today is Becky Erbelding. She's a colleague who is an archivist here at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. The museum just made public a new addition to its collection, a personal photo album containing 116 pictures taken between May and December 1944 that chronicle the life of SS officers and other officials at the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The album provides an important perspective on the psychology of people perpetrating genocide. Becky, welcome to the program.
BECKY ERBELDING: Thank you for having me.
JERRY FOWLER: Well as I said this is a personal photo album, and just with the basics, do we know whose album it was?
BECKY ERBELDING: We actually do. It took us a while to figure that out because he's never named in the album, but through archival research and looking at his rank insignia and w...
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Review of Perpetrators at Play (Voices on Genocide Prevention)
The descriptive dialogue between Becky and Jerry is thought provoking, easy to follow, and provides a rare perspective of the enemy.