It is a common belief that photographs are accurate visual documents or illustrations of history. But no matter what their originators had once hoped, photography cannot provide genuinely objective representations of reality.
Photographs are indeed artistic creations designed by individual personalities.
Their aesthetic and moral intentions are no less a part of the photographs than the fragments of reality they contain. The exhibition shows various photographic perspectives and reactions to the end of the war. On the one hand, we find pictures by the victors , men and women who entered the country with the Allied armies in order to document the liberation and what remained of Germany after the defeat of the Nazi rule. Their photos were commissioned by media concerns and news agencies for the purpose of informing the public in their respective countries. They have left their mark on the collective visual image of the end of the war, up until the present day.