![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://www.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
“The Germans entered Kutno on September 15, 1939 and during the first months of the occupation the synagogue was destroyed, and many Jews were taken for forced labor. A Judenrat was apparently appointed as early as November 1939, but the ghetto was only established officially in June 1940. The ghetto was liquidated at the end of March/beginning of April 1942, with the deportation of all its inhabitants to the Chelmno extermination camp.”
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All images by Hugo Jaeger*
Source: LIFE Archive via Ben Atlas
This capsule was curated by Liz Elsby
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*“Hugo Jaeger is the former personal photographer of Adolf Hitler. He travelled with Hitler in the years leading up to and throughout World War II and took around 2,000 colour photographs of Hitler.
“In 1945, Jaeger buried the photographs inside 12 glass jars outside Munich. He dug up all of the photographs ten years later, in 1955, storing them in a bank vault. In 1965, Jaeger sold them to LIFE magazine.“
I wonder if the photographer who traveled with Hitler and took these photographs was jailed, because he should be. Granted, we’re able to look at them now, but shame on Life Magazine for buying these photographs from him!!
I’m not so sure about that Mercedes. If the rest of his photos are anything like these above, they are powerful incriminating evidence against the nazi regime. It would be a shame if they had been lost.
My God, the woman in the first and last pictures is beautiful – and made even more so amidst all the ugliness.