Questioning the Accuracy of Auschwitz Liberation Photos
And something I wanted to point out to you, um, you know there are many
pictures about the Russian liberating Auschwitz, and
there's never any snow, and the snow was honestly that
high.
Mm-hmm.
And so I have some connection with the Russian
Embassy, and I was there once, and I said, "Something puzzles
me. Those photos are fakes because there's
no snow."
Mm-hmm.
And they said, "Well, yes, they are not fakes, but when the
army came, they didn't have cameras.
They didn't photograph."
Mm.
So only much later when they realized they should have
pictures
of it, they took pictures-
Right
... like you see now, but this is definitely not in Auschwitz and
not the liberation of Auschwitz.
The, the-
There were not that many people with clothes and children and no
snow.
Right. Fascinating. The-
So I think historically we should point this out.
Get it right
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