"A man in a long coat with a full head of hair and sunken cheeks, kneels at the edge of a mass grave, resigned to his fate. The dozens of corpses below him and the gunman pointing a pistol to the back of his head leave no room for doubt he knows his life is about to end. The victim's identity remains a mystery, but a match has been found for the perpetrator with 99% certainty."
"The gunman in the photo, striking a "casual pose," while showing "performative indifference" and "procedural matter-of-factness," is most likely Nazi war criminal Jakobus Onnen, and the photo was probably a Nazi trophy, explains German historian Jurgen Matthaus. The victim, however, could not be identified The latest findings by the former head of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's research department recently appeared in the Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft (or "Journal of Historical Science"), published by Metropol Verlag."
An image shows a kneeling man in a long coat with sunken cheeks at the edge of a mass grave as a gunman aims a pistol at his head. The gunman has been matched with 99% certainty to Nazi war criminal Jakobus Onnen. The gunman's pose suggests performative indifference and procedural matter-of-factness, and the photo was likely a Nazi trophy, according to Jurgen Matthaus. The victim remains unidentified. The photograph, long known as 'The Last Jew in Vinnitsa,' gained attention in 1961 at the Eichmann trial. New research indicates the crime occurred in Berdychiv, about 150 km from Kyiv. UPI distributed the photo after survivor Al Moss supplied it, having received it in Munich in 1945 following liberation.
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