Suicided SS guard
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Image Details
| Title | Suicided SS guard |
|---|---|
| Artist | Lee Miller |
| Year | 1945 |
| Town/City | Buchenwald |
| Country | Germany |
| Format | Modern |
| Description | Lee Miller wrote; ‘… one SS man had enough of everything and hanged himself sitting down by tying a string to a radiator. He was taken out on a stretcher, stripped and thrown on a heap of bony cadavers where he looked shockingly big, the well fed bastard.’ Published in US Vogue, June 1945, page 105 and in UK Vogue, June 1945, page 105. Captioned as: ...a prisoner hanged on an iron hook, his face clubbed. |