December 1944. The Battle of the Bulge has been raging for several days. In a forest covered with snow and frost, faraway explosions still reach the ears of an Airborne GI lying shot in the snow. Facing him, two helpless children try to prevent him from dying. But, a blood stain is crawling inexorably across the snow. A comic by Philippe Jarbinet. Airborne 44.
Red light. Basins. Enlarger. Photos drying on a wire. In the room where his brother was developing his photos before the war, Gabrielle looks Osterlin appear the faces of women and children, naked bodies face guns and tanks in the middle of nowhere. The reality of Nazi barbarism sprang past on photo paper, supported by the strength of a meticulous narrative that leaves no room for doubt. For Gabrielle, Luther and Casmir, war takes on a meaning that few people in the West had realized. And for good reason. The 1005 directive from the person Reichsführer Himmler demanded that all traces of the killings in against Jews on the Eastern front is ruthlessly hunted and deleted. Nobody had to know. On the ground, Himmler almost succeeded. In the memoirs, it was quite different.







