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interrogator sits calmy at a writing desk as he witnesses the scene. A crowd at the background witnesses the dramatic event, including a man in "stryped pyjamas" who looks defiantly at the left. The identity of the two women is unknown but the man seated at the desk was Wilhelm Heinrich van der Velden, a young Dutchman nominated by the Americans to that position, who had been recently liberated from the
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informer, and was identified before she could hide in the crowd, is publicly identified by another woman as the one who denounced her. She rushes from the crowd to do that and stands angry and defiant to her left, while the alleged informer lowers her head in shame. The camp commandant and
22: 63:'s film and photography unit, Cartier-Bresson was caught by the Germans and became a prisoner of war in June 1940. In 1943, his third escape attempt was successful, and with the help of forged papers, he managed to flee to France. 21: 275: 427: 274:
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The dramatic picture documents the moment when a Belgian woman who had been a Nazi collaborator as a
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Alberto Giacometti à la Galerie Maeght, Paris, France, 1961
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
World War II
French Army
World War II
Europe
Dessau
Germany
Gestapo
Westerbork Camp
Netherlands
International Center of Photography
New York
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis
Art Gallery of South Australia
Adelaide
"Modern Photography - Important Photos"
"Henri Cartier-Bresson | Gestapo informer recognized by a woman she had denounced, Transit Camp, Dessau, Germany (1945) | Artsy"
"Henri Cartier-Bresson in Dessau"
"Gestapo informer recognized by a women[sic] she had denounced, deportation camp, Dessau, Germany"
"Gestapo informer recognized by a woman she had denounced, deportation camp, Dessau, Germany"
"Gestapo informer recognised by a woman she had denounced, deportation camp, Dessau, Germany, 1945"
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