Abstract:Victor Gollancz's book, In Darkest Germany (1947), is compiled from letters written and photographs taken during his six‐week visit to the British Zone of Occupation in 1946, and provides a counter to the official British political narrative about the occupation of Germany. This article examines Gollancz's text in the light of more recent theories of photography and of childhood as constructions in order to address his claim that photography is at ‘a long remove’ from what he saw in post‐war Germany, and to di… Show more
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