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The anniversary of the un- forgettable tragedies centered in the Nazi-supervised cremetoria at Auschwitz and a score of other camps places renewed signifi- cance on the data indicting the Germans in the Nazi era. Exceptionally revealing is the photographic record of the occur- rences. A notable collection of pic- tures has just been issued by Dover Publications under the title The Warsaw Ghetto in Photo- graphs, edited by Ulrich Keller. The importance of this volunie is the source — the photography having been done by the Germans themselves. Therefore the collec- tion immediately exposes itself as intended propaganda. While many of the photographs in this volume could be judged as mere realism, it is evident that the purpose is to arouse revulsion. Also, it is evident that the chief aim may have been to prove to international forces, especially the Red Cross, that charges of dis- crimination and torture were exaggerated. There are 206 photos in this Dover volume. They were selected from 700 in the German-produced collection. The introduction pro- •vides a history of the Nazi engineered ghetto tactics. The pictures invariably eliminate the presence of Nazi soldiers and offi- cials and this is evidence of the propaganda effort. - Indifference to the sufferings is in evidence in the pictures repro- duced here. The distress, the continuing horror foisted upon Warsaw Jewry, is outlined in this explanatory note: "By spring 1941, when the photographs in this volume were most likely taken, the ubiquity of death was in fact the most strik- ing feature in the Warsaw Ghetto streets — the public death of thousands stranded without shel- ter, income or relatives to look after them. "According to official statistics, 1,700 inhabitants died between May 1 and May 15 of that year, mostly from starvation, but also from other causes, such as a rapidly spreading typhus epidemic, tuberculosis and var- , ious stress-related diseases, espe- cially heart attacks." In spite of the attempt at shield- ing the German ego, there is the evidence of bodies strewn on the Warsaw streets, some covered with newspapers,_ later to be buried en masse. While there is the aim to arouse revulsion, there is a measure of dignity in some of the portraits, and in the resistance, meager as it may have been. The Warsaw Ghetto in Photo- graphs is a valuable piece of his- tory which will continue to be studied with a great deal of inter- est — even as a Nazi-produced re- cord.