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Crowdsourcing A Nazi Photo Album
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Jamie Feldmar
Published Jun 21, 2011
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Here's an interesting little project from the New York Times: Crowdsourcing a mysterious Nazi photo album. An undocumented photographer in the 1940s captured dozens of haunting, unprecedented shots of Hitler, prisoners, and gravesites from various stops in Eastern Europe. They're part of a "historical puzzle" that the album's anonymous owner—a 72-year-old executive in the fashion industry who lives in New Jersey and works in Manhattan—is hoping to solve. He'd like to identify where the photos came from and sell them for "six figures or higher." Here's a look at one of the photos; go to the Lens blog for the rest.
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