The mystery of the Nazi album





All that was known about the anonymous photo album Nazi photographer - this is just what you can see from its 214 photos. It is worth noting that the pictures were good opportunities: in one month, he photographed the Russian and Jewish prisoners in another - there was only a few meters from Adolf Hitler. He was on the Eastern front, working for the Nazi propaganda campaign, and also pictures of a pretty woman, who was special for him.

Some online resources, and German newspapers published several photos and appealed to the public to help solve the mystery of the Nazi photographer. Several days later, the newspaper received a letter from a certain Harriet Sharnberg from Germany, which gave some answers.

It turned out that the photographer's name was Franz Krieger, he was born in the Austrian city of Salzburg, he survived the war and lived until 1993. All that we know that one special woman was Frida Krieger and his wife. She died November 17, 1944, along with their two-year daughter Heidrun, when the US Air Force began bombing Salzburg.

16 Photo © Salzburg Municipal Archive / Private collection via the New York Times

1. Franz Krueger - by the mysterious album since World War II.

The mystery of the Nazi album



2. Fried and Franz Krieger.

The mystery of the Nazi album

3. Fried Krieger

The mystery of the Nazi album

4. Franz Krieger

The mystery of the Nazi album

5. Photo Franz Krieger made, perhaps, somewhere in Belarus

The mystery of the Nazi album

6. The ruins of Minsk.

The mystery of the Nazi album

7. Photo Franz Krieger

The mystery of the Nazi album

8. In the summer of 1941, Franz went to Minsk, where he photographed the Soviet prisoners of war was in the Jewish quarter

The mystery of the Nazi album

9. Archival Salzburg holds about 35 thousand negatives Franz Krieger.

The mystery of the Nazi album

10. Krieger joined the Nazi party, but left it in 1941, and became a propaganda campaign

The mystery of the Nazi album

11. He soon left the company and became a propaganda, "a simple soldier and a driver."

The mystery of the Nazi album

12. Once in August 1942 in Stalingrad as a truck driver, he was evacuated by train in just a few hours before the great battle for the city.

The mystery of the Nazi album

13. After the war, Franz Krieger left the sphere of professional photography.

The mystery of the Nazi album

14. After spending a propaganda photographer, Krieger learned not to the driver. He made a series of photos shows the auto-

The mystery of the Nazi album

15. Fried Krieger (right) in Munich.

The mystery of the Nazi album

16. Self-portrait, which helped to identify the author of these photos.

The mystery of the Nazi album

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