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January 20, 2015 | Categories: History, Human History, Images of History, Life under siege, Military History, Photography, Weird | Tags: black and white photography, Danish, Denmark, historic, Historical, History, human history, Military, Military history, Photo, Photography, Power, Second Schleswig War, Society, the Second Schleswig War, War, Warfare, Weird, World History | Leave a comment

It’s always easier to attack those with no power.
I’ve come to believe that the people most driven to abuse and humiliate these women were deflecting from the guilt of their own collaboration, as individuals or institutionally.
Yes, there were women who slept with German soldiers for purely opportunistic reasons, but there were also women who did what they needed to do to so they wouldn’t starve, and there were also women who had genuinely fallen in love with members of the enemy.
(A little old lady from Denmark told me once (and I paraphrase): “The occupying Germans weren’t all that bad- they were quite nice! Until the SS in the black uniforms showed up. They were nasty.”)
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January 23, 2014 | Categories: History, Nightmares of World War II, Photography, Pursuit of Happiness, The Drama Of It All, The Politics of Cultural Destruction, Weird, Women's Issues, World War Two | Tags: 1945, Adolf Hitler, Danish, Death, Denmark, Europe, Fight, German, German soldiers, Germany, History, Hitler, Military, Nazi, Photo, Photography, Politics, Power, Society, War, Warfare, Weird, Women, Womens Rights, World War two, WW2 | 2 Comments