Berlin's Deutsches Historisches Museum is hosting an exhibition titled On Displaying Violence, revisiting post-WWII exhibitions that aimed to understand the war's horrors. It focuses on six shows from 1945-48, highlighting various methods used to commemorate victims and document Nazi crimes. The exhibition uses original items, film footage, and photography to envelop visitors in that historical moment. Notably, the Daily Express displayed harrowing images from concentration camps, impacting viewers profoundly, and a French exhibition documented the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre. Through these artifacts, the exhibition sheds light on early European responses to the war.
"The post-war exhibitions used a range of objects and devices to commemorate the dead or document crimes."
"In June 1945, a French travelling exhibition called Hitlerian Crimes opened at the Grand Palais and was eventually seen by around one million people."
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