Eyes of Hate
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Date: 1933
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed a man at a League of Nations conference in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1933. As Eisenstaedt, who was Jewish, raised his camera, the man — who recognized him as a Jewish photographer — stared at him with what Eisenstaedt described as a look of pure hatred. The man was later identified as Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda. Eisenstaedt wrote that he was frightened by the intensity of the gaze. The photograph documents the virulent antisemitism of senior Nazi leadership a year before the laws that would lead to the Holocaust were enacted. Eisenstaedt himself emigrated to the United States and became one of Life magazine's founding photographers.
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