Film 7

Trademark of the film : Voigtlander
Photos made on the day of the liberation of the camp : april 29, 1945

In this roll film the photo #7 is quite the same as the #18 from the film 4 : a soldier is lighting another soldier cigarette on the right of the picture on both of them. Officers and soldiers in the background have slighly moved but some of them can be recognized. What does it means ?

TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS (one more indication in that direction)

Here, two photographers seem to have taken quite the same photo. Both of them are side by side, one is on the right (photo #7, film 7), the other on the left (photo #18, film 4). No other explanation seems possible. Even if we suppose that only one photographer used two cameras, why would he have changed his camera as he was moving lightly from left to right in a few seconds and as his roll films were not finished (these photos are not at the end of the rolls) ? Something else support the possibility of two photographers : they were not the same height. The one who took the #18, film 4 was taller than the other. If we watch the two men lighting the cigarette, we notice that the perspective of the roof behind the man's cap on the left and the angle of view are different on both photos. The photographer on the left was taller than the photographer on the right. Because of the movements of the soldiers in the background the #18, film 4 seems to be the first one while the second has been taken a few seconds later. So to sum up :
- photo #18, film 4 : the former taken by a rather tall photographer, on the left.
- photo #7, film 7 : the latter taken by a smaller photographer, on the right.

A large part of this film is missing, from #14 to #31. We only found the end of the film from #32 to #37. The topic of the end is about the road where the Americans and the two German cars met and dead bodies were lying on the ground.

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