This article comes from a series of posts at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden.
In April 2024, they were discussing in Germany the “children’s concentration camp” on the cover of a book about the GDR.
The Berlin satirical publishing house “Eulenspiegel” has released an illustrated book of stories about the GDR called «How We Lived, Who We Were». The cover features children dressed as «concentration camp prisoners».
The creators of the book, apparently, decided to also try to present the GDR as a large concentration camp. A number of booksellers have already expressed their dissatisfaction with this fact.
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The story behind the photo
«Children in prisoners’ clothes. A photo smuggled from a concentration camp located on the territory of the USSR. These children were born in the camp and will grow up there until their parents are released.»
This text accompanied a picture published in the June 1978 issue of magazine «Stimme der Märtyrer» (“The Voice of the Martyrs”).
In fact, it depicted children from a nursery in Torgau (GDR, Leipzig district), lined up after a daily swim in a swimming pool. After swimming, the children from the nursery were wrapped in terrycloth robes with a hood. The photo was taken in 1976