there is huge amounts of information and images available on the internet and just typing in the world holocaust all sorts of horrifying images come up.
but i've decided to take more of a personal approach, and a more implicit message rather than just throwing harrowing images and stories at the audience.
we were talking in class last week about the shock factor of an image and what has become over the last century or so, socailly acceptable, with sexual and controversial elements becoming more and more commonplace in today's society, nothing seems to be out of place or deemed 'unacceptable' anymore. with artists such as sandy kim documenting her menstruel cycles and art becoming a vehicle with which to push and stretch boundaries; we've gotten, as a culture and a generation preoccupied with physicality. but although art and advertising are consumed with sexual desire and appearances, vanity and controversy are not rooted in this generation, they're age old.
again as documented in my previous post of various found quotes and diagrams that i found interesting. i've found various websites and books that predate the war era, that focus on physicality and the aryan race, but seem to approach it from a so called ''rational'' point of view, with an intellectual slant, such as the aforementioned book ''Vaught's Practical Character Reader.''
the aryan race was a portrayal of what hitler wanted from an entire country/world. his idea of perfection.
These are some images from Vaught's book, dating 1902
http://resources.ushmm.org/film/search/index.php
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