Photography, Collaboration and the Holocaust: Looking at the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) through the Frame of the 'Hooded Man'

Abstract

As a response to Cortis and Sonderegger’s re-take of the Abu Ghraib picture, this paper will discuss a picture taken by taken by Heinrich Hoffman, Hitler’s personal photographer, on 6 June 1941. The picture in question depicts the first meeting between Ante Pavelić, the leader of the Croatian fascist Ustasha movement, and Hitler.

Keywords

• perpetrator photography, genocide, the holocaust, independent state of croatia, ustashe, ante pavelić,